A new study shows that large amounts of surface freshwater are being lost every year in the Amazon. The changes are being caused by human intervention, including hydropower dams and deforestation, and climate change. A major new study of the Amazon has revealed an alarming trend, with the region losing as much as 350 km2 of surface freshwater every year on average. The loss is related to the construction of hydropower dams, deforestation and climate change.

It’s easy to understand why people are excited by foldable smartphones — they introduce a unique design while giving people a tablet-sized work space that can fold up and fit into their pocket. But a new hands-on video showing off Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Fold in action might wind up dimming some of that enthusiasm.

Special counsel Robert Mueller closed his long and contentious Russia investigation with no new charges Friday, ending the probe that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump’s presidency but launching a fresh wave of political battles over the still-confidential findings. The report’s details remained a mystery, accessible to only a handful of Justice Department officials while Attorney General William Barr prepared to release the “principal conclusions” soon.

Cadence of Hyrule marks a fairly unprecedented step for Nintendo. While it’s fundamentally a mash-up of The Legend of Zelda and Crypt of the NecroDancer, the next Zelda game is still being made by a small, third-party indie developer, and is even being called a “Nindie” by Nintendo itself. As exciting as the announcement is, how the heck did that happen?

NASA has issued a warning about space herpes after a study found the virus was reactivating in crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions. According to the agency, while only a small proportion of the astronauts develop symptoms as a result of the dormant virus awakening, it could spell danger for longer spaceflight missions - for instance to Mars.

Octopuses are known for their astonishing ability to rapidly shift their skin color and texture, to hide from predators, to sneak up on prey and to communicate with each other. But what exactly is going on when octopuses change color in their sleep? Footage that recently circulated on Twitter offered a rare glimpse of a Caribbean two-spot octopus (Octopus hummelincki) sleeping out in the open in its well-lit aquarium. And as it snoozed, the cephalopod's skin color changed dramatically, from...

Samsung is working on making the entire front of its phones a screen, with no need for bezels or a camera cutout of any kind. Yonhap News Agency reports that the company’s vice president of its display R&D group, Yang Byung-duk, said that “though it wouldn’t be possible to make (a full-screen smartphone) in the next 1-2 years, the technology can move forward to the point where the camera hole will be invisible, while not affecting the camera’s function in any way.”

IN passing sentence on convicted child abuser George Pell, above, Chief Judge Peter Kidd today told the 77-year-old high-ranking Vatican official there was a possibility that he could die in jail. I am conscious that the term of imprisonment, which I am about to impose upon you, carries with it a real, as distinct

The title of Archbishop Joseph Kurtz’s op-ed “Catholic teaching supports the aims of HB 205” should more accurately have stated, “HB 205 supports the aims of Catholic teaching.” Since 1995, the number of Catholic schools in our country has been declining rapidly, mostly due to lower attendance numbers and stretched church budgets. When Mr. Kurtz says, “this legislation will help those in need,” he is correct only if he is referring to the need Catholic schools have to basically sur...

Now while I can understand the attitudes of most people when it comes to weed in that it’s just some stoner thing. Getting stoned is fun and stoners tend to have a lot of weed-nerds among them talking about long lost strains and breeding lines they would love to try, or a medical thing since it does help with a plethora of conditions or all about a particular branding (which I’ve always thought is all bollocks anyway), this subject has always been far bigger for me.

Few TV shows are as savagely on-point about human beings’ inability to escape their own relentless need for affirmation as Comedy Central’s Corporate, a series about people who work at a faceless corporation they know to be mostly evil — but nevertheless want to be told, constantly, how good they are.

Captain Marvel got off to a red-hot start in China last night, earning $2.46 million in midnight previews in advance of its Fri-Sun opening frame. That's the fifth-best performance for any superhero title in China (sans exchange rates), behind only Avengers: Infinity War ($9.4m in 2018), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($4.79m in 2015), Captain America: Civil War ($2.62m in 2016) and Venom ($2.5m in 2018). For the record, Aquaman earned $1.3m in midnight previews towards a $25m opening day and $93m...

Be sure to read the fine print. We’ve all heard it, but how many people do it? At least one, it turns out, and it just netted her an easy $10,000. Last month, St. Petersburg-based company Squaremouth began hiding the instructions for claiming the prize in the policy document for every Tin Leg travel insurance policy it sold.

I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.” From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged on Sunday from Fox & Friends presenter Pete Hegseth, who was referring to … germs. The former Princeton University undergraduate and Afghanistan counterinsurgency instructor said, to the mirth of his co-hosts, that he hadn’t washed his hands in a decade. Naturally this germ of misinformation went viral on social media.

The US Federal Reserve could soon contain one cryptocurrency Market crash as one of the risks to be taken into consideration when performing supervisory stress tests. Fed's board announced Thursday changes to a policy statement on the scenario design framework for the stress test, says that "bitcoin market collapse”Can be considered one of the“ significant ”market risks.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has reclassified the Mountain Gorilla from “critically endangered” to “endangered.” The status change comes after a survey released in May 2018 by authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Rwanda, and the Republic of Uganda. Survey results showed numbers increased to 604 up from an estimated 480 in 2010. In total, the wild population is approximately 1,004.

Shortly after rocketing a commercial spaceship made for humans into orbit on its first journey, SpaceX founder Elon Musk felt confident enough to say that he himself may eventually take a ride. "I'd be happy to go on the vehicle," Musk, who has never traveled to space, said of the Crew Dragon spaceship, his rocket company's seven-passenger space capsule. "I think it's a good design."

In 1961, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow famously told a group of TV broadcast executives, “When television is bad, nothing is worse.” Today, we’re confronted with another medium gone bad: the Internet. We should bring on the breakup of big tech and the online privacy laws that are way overdue. But a healthy public sphere needs a healthy public media. We’ve built the equivalent for television and radio. Now it’s time to do it for the Internet. The simplest way t...

Vegan activist James Aspey will be running for Parliament with the Animal Justice Party (AJP) in the seat of Heathcote in the upcoming New South Wales state election in Australia. Aspey told Plant Based News that he 'wants the world to be a more peaceful place' for both animals and humans. He is one of 50 Lower House, and 18 Upper House candidates the AJP has running for Parliament. Every candidate is vegan and dedicated to animal protection. The Australian political party already has ...

HMD Global’s new Nokia 9 PureView — and all five of its rear cameras — may have just gotten announced at MWC 2019, but it’s hitting stores in the US really soon, with sales set to start March 3rd. To go with the launch, HMD is also offering a special limited time offer on the Nokia 9 PureView that will lower the price by $100 off the usual $699 price, bringing it down to $599 for the first week of sales. After March 11th, the price will go back up, which doesn’t leave a ton of time for...