One in five of the world’s deaths now caused by diets which are overly high in salt, fat and lacking in fruit, veg and fibre

Scientists at the University of Central Florida say they’ve figured out how to make pulses of light travel 30 times as fast as usual — or even backward. “We’re able to control the speed of the pulse by going into the pulse itself and reorganizing its energy such that its space and time degrees of freedom are mixed in with each other,” researcher Ayman Abouraddy said in a statement. “We’re very happy with these results, and we’re very hopeful it’s just the starting point of future research.”

It’s too little grains, fruits and vegetables, a new study says.

Scientists hope samples from Hayabusa 2 will provide clues about origins of life on Earth

This week, Vox and other outlets reported that Google’s newly created AI ethics board was falling apart amid controversy over several of the board members. Well, it’s officially done falling apart — it’s been canceled. Google told Vox on Thursday that it’s pulling the plug on the ethics board.

A study found that a hormone meant to protect animals’ brains actually enhanced them. Ethicists are wondering what happens if it becomes viable for humans.

Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth. What do they want?

Labor supports legislation in response to Christchurch shooting that threatens jail for executives, despite media companies’ concerns

Older people play an outsized role in civic life. They also are more likely to be online targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric.

Law enforcement sources told The Times that the suspect, 29-year-old Eric Holder, had some type of personal dispute with Hussle that led to the shooting.

So-called "Lincoln County Process" is a critical step in achieving smooth flavor.

Before you freak out, the video is fake. It was created by a tech-savvy Twitter user based on an actual Amazon patent.

It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared.

This creepy candy bar kept Soviet-era children fed — and it’s still “in the red.” Hematogen — a chocolatey, chewy snack with an oddly metallic aftertaste —

Plans to triple the area of plantations will not meet 1.5 °C climate goals. New natural forests can, argue Simon L. Lewis, Charlotte E. Wheeler and colleagues.

David Kong felt shattered after a recent business trip to Chongqing. It took him more than 30 hours to travel to the city from Beijing, on a hard sleeper known in China as the “green-skin train” for its distinctive dark olive hue. The same 900-mile journey would have taken just three hours by air, or about 12 hours by high-speed train. But Kong could not take either, as he was a “deadbeat.”

Engineering professor Nader Engheta and his team have demonstrated a metamaterial device that can function as an analog computer, validating an earlier theory.

Why humans can't thrive on plants alone.

In an interview with the Daily Star, he explained that he has been working on a revolutionary AI to “personalise education” to enable “anyone can learn almost anything, using AI”. And he believes that within the next two decades, our heads will be boosted with special implants, so “you won’t need to memorise anything”. He told the Daily Star that people won't have to bother typing any questions, as any queries will be answered immediately from "an AI implant", which will result in the end of "parrot fashion" learning at schools.

Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, citing difficulty meeting its own standards. “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project. We apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch.

Study points toward lifelong neuron formation in the human brain’s hippocampus, with implications for memory and disease

Researchers have grown animal cells on blades of grass - could a slaughter-free bacon supply be feasible?

The beginning of the end started with violent shaking that raised giant waves in the waters of an inland sea in what is now North Dakota. Then, tiny glass beads began to fall like birdshot from the heavens. The rain of glass was so heavy it may have set fire to much of the vegetation on land. In the water, fish struggled to breathe as the beads clogged their gills.

NASA has successfully tested the helicopter that's making its way to the red planet with the Mars 2020 rover.

Climate change doesn’t just shift weather patterns. It can force the migration of plants, people, animals, bugs — and disease. By the end of this century almost all of the world’s population could be exposed to mosquito-borne diseases once limited to the tropics, according to a new study from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

At least one of the students whose parents stand accused of fraud doesn’t appear to have been very interested in higher education in the first place.

It’s strange to think about now, but until the 1920s, you didn’t generally need a passport to travel. A smart CEO I know recently mentioned this to me in the context of what’s happening to the internet. The idea of making citizens carry documents to promote border security, he said, dates only to the aftermath of World War I.

More and more people are working where they live, attracted by the promise of flexibility, efficiency and no commute. But does this come at a cost to their wellbeing?

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun laid the foundations for modern AI