New research suggests the mysterious and controversial "Planet 9" isn't an original member of our solar system. According to a new computer simulation developed by astronomers at Lund University in Sweden, the ninth planet is an exopla ...

In a somewhat bizarre story which proves that truth is often stranger than fiction, a serial mugger in England was arrested after one of his victims spotted him under Facebook’s “People you may know” section. Originally reported by the BBC, 21-year o ...

The Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed a western lowland gorilla on Saturday after a 4-year-old boy slipped into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said at a news conference. Harambe, a 17-year-old, 400-pound gorilla, carried the boy around its ...

Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to the results of a new study. The estimate, based on universal scaling laws applied to large datasets, appears today in the journal Procee ...

Salah Abdeslam, thought to be the only direct participant in the November terrorist attacks in Paris to have survived, refused to answer questions on Friday at a hearing with a French investigative judge in Paris, the prosecutor’s office and his lawy ...

O-Robotix is developing an underwater robot, SeaDrone, which aims to make underwater inspection and aquaculture maintenance easier by incorporating smart technologies into its designs. Among the many startup companies that joined TechCrunch’s Disrupt ...

Microsoft's "Get Windows 10" nagware that has been driving some people bonkers will be killed off in July, when Redmond pulls its free upgrade offer. A spokesperson for the software giant told us today...

Yahoo Inc. chief Marissa Mayer will walk away with a $55-million severance package if the company's auction of its Internet operations culminates in a sale that ousts her from her job. The payout disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday consists ...

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Thousands of years ago, an ancient Greek athlete named Cylon tried to overthrow the government. It did not end well. Now, archaeologists have stumbled upon mass graves near Athens containing the skeletal remains of 80 men who the researchers believe ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Friday called for a citywide vote in November on making the nation’s capital the 51st state, resurrecting a decades-old plan to thrust the issue before Congress and raise awareness across the country about District resi ...

Credit to Jordan Spieth, because I’m almost certain that 22-year-old Luke Kerr-Dineen wouldn’t have handled this heart-wrenching loss with half as much class. But after swallowing the loss, Spieth walked off the 18th green and regrouped admirably. Th ...

Eighty businesses have joined a growing backlash against a new North Carolina law ending anti-discrimination protections across the state. Bank of America, based in Charlotte, has joined dozens of major firms publicly objecting to the law. It also me ...

With its moat, wall, barbed wire, armed guards and security cameras, the facility could be mistaken for a military base if it weren't for the pungent odour of marijuana in the air. Here, on the outskirts of a quiet village in northern Israel, 50 ...

With the rollout of the iPhone SE, it’s clear Apple is no longer beholden to its old iPhone release schedule of “new models only in the fall, older models rolling off the price list in 2 years.” But if Apple’s top Wall Street analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is ...

Two female suicide bombers disguised as men blew themselves up Wednesday at a mosque near the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 22 people, the Nigerian military and rescuers on the scene said. The attack happened during mornin ...

The NFL's owners want to keep expanding their sport's reach around the globe, and they have discussed the possibility of playing games in China, Germany and Brazil, among other countries. "International is a big push right now," N ...

As you probably already know, DeepMind’s A.I. named AlphaGo is now winning 3–1 against the top Go player of the last decade, Lee Sedol (update: the final result was 4–1). This is considered a great A.I. achievement because there are more legal Go pos ...

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Gaming Historian tells the history of Nintendo's battle against the rental industry, including their lawsuit against Blockbuster Video.