Isaac Franklin and John Armfield amassed a fortune worth several billions in today’s dollars, making the ruthless partners among the wealthiest people in 19th-century America.

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Watch the Air Force test at hypersonic sled at speeds of 6,599 miles per hour.

Iceberg-making submarines and "cloud brightening" are among the geoengineering solutions that could help replenish polar sea ice.

Toyota shared its electric vehicle and robot lineup for the 2020 Olympic Games. Things are about to get weird.

We tend to think of physical, material things as the ultimate stuff of the universe. Yet contemporary physics has largely abandoned physical things in favour of energy and fields. And the late Mary Midgley argued that materialism was a profound mistake. Should we give up on our conviction that physical stuff is the bedrock of the world, or is such talk ivory tower nonsense?

Pet owners are being urged by vets to feed their dogs and cats on a diet rich in insects. The British Veterinary Association (BVA) says some insect-based foods may be better for pets than prime steak. The vets expect resistance from some pet lovers, but they say surveys suggest many would accept insect-based food.

The region produces most of the world’s banana exports — and the fungus affects the most popular commercial variety.

The gene editor will be used in lab dishes in cancer and blood disorder trials, and to directly edit a gene in human eyes in a blindness therapy test.

Research suggests marijuana really does give you the munchies

Last week, a young woman with sickle cell anemia became the first person in the United States to have her cells altered with CRISPR gene editing technology. Here's what that means for the future treatment of genetic diseases.

Our brains are perhaps the final privacy frontier.

Ten U.S. senators are calling on Google to take “immediate action” to convert its growing number of contractors to full-time employees after six months of work. The demand follows a New York Times report in May that said Google employed 121,000 contract employees and 102,000 full-time employees.

The tests are designed to see how soldiers will operate robots in the field

Even by the standards of a hot Jupiter, exoplanet WASP-121b is absolutely scorching.

The long read: They have become a menace in European cities. In Barcelona, where wild boar are jostling tourists and raiding rubbish bins, the fightback has begun

Is Nvidia switching to new Switch processors?

They show the Earth peeping up from behind the surface of the moon, with a circular portion of the planet covered by shadow.

Leafy salad greens grown under banks of LED lights, with mist or drips of water ...

Amazon wants the FCC to give it the go-ahead to launch 3,236 satellites that would be used to establish a globe-spanning internet network.

Can privacy survive?