A viral video featuring doctors making false and misleading claims about coronavirus that was shared by President Trump was removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube this week.

Airbus-France will build the huge satellite that brings the first Martian rock samples back to Earth. This material will be drilled on the Red Planet by the US space agency's next rover, Perseverance, before being blasted into orbit by a rocket. It'll be the Airbus satellite's job to grab the packaged samples and then ship them home.

The likelihood of bitcoin challenging record highs by the end of the year may have have increased with the cryptocurrency’s violation of major price resistance – but don’t raise your hopes too high just yet.

Is there an unbreakable code? The question has been central to cryptography for thousands of years, and lies at the heart of efforts to secure private information on the internet. In a new paper, Cornell Tech researchers identified a problem that holds the key to whether all encryption can be broken—as well as a surprising connection to a mathematical concept that aims to define and measure randomness.

In a new paper, DeepMind describes an AI algorithm that was able to discover a critical programming rule in deep reinforcement learning from scratch.

In the streaming era, music is accessed from a variety of online services, ephemeral in nature and never living on board the device. However, the online audio revolution really kicked off with the …

Baboons at Knowsley Safari Park in Merseyside have been spotted by park workers with knives and screwdrivers, as well as a chainsaw.

At least 14 wolves now in Lassen family after new male joined pack following disappearance of original father in June last year

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

Along with 47 cloned versions of already prohibited apps, the Indian government is considering banning 275 more apps.

Proteins are essential to the life of cells, carrying out complex tasks and catalyzing chemical reactions. Scientists and engineers have long sought to harness this power by designing artificial proteins that can perform new tasks, like treat disease, capture carbon, or harvest energy, but many of the processes designed to create such proteins are slow and complex, with a high failure rate.

With high temperatures and water scarcity, the Emirates might seem an unlikely place for a farm. Yet, as coronavirus and climate change heighten the desire for food security, could vertical farms be the solution?

Twitter hack details, a botnet vigilante, and more of the week's top security news.

Regis Philbin became a morning show icon as the host of Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee in 1988

The “King of Queens” actress and ex-Scientologist, along with fellow whistleblower Mike Rinder, open up about Scientology’s most famous member.

In an ever-expanding world of TV services, it’s only getting harder to find what you want

When Facebook employees asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg in June whether the company would introduce a donation-matching program, he replied by telling them to temper their expectations because the company was in "the middle of a global recession," BuzzFeed News reported Thursday.

Some companies regret sharing information with the tech giant and its Alexa Fund. ‘We may have been naive in believing they weren’t competitive with us,’ said one executive.

President Trump won suburban voters narrowly in 2016, but now he's getting swamped in the polls with them against Joe Biden. Trump's trying to turn it around with a heavy dose of fear.

Canadian researchers have developed an app that tracks users' smartphone behavior to monitor mental health.

QAnon posts are too often linked to dangerous, real-world harms.

In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that can power electric vehicles (EVs) for hundreds of miles on a single charge, scientists have endeavored to replace the graphite anodes currently used in EV batteries with lithium metal anodes.

"The cliff is totally visible in front of us": The future is grim if Congress doesn’t act on the economy. The country is ambling toward a cliff, putting millions of Americans’ lives and livelihoods in danger and all but ensuring prolonged economic distress nationwide. It didn’t have to be this way. Yet here we are, unable to shake out of it.

The assay looks for stomach, esophageal, colorectal, lung and liver malignancies

Communicating with the homeworld may be tough.

It was just another Friday, until the internet stopped working for tens of millions of people.

Apple is being sued for allegedly refusing to help those who have fallen victim to a iTunes gift card scam. An 11-count class action lawsuit has been filed against the company. Apple is accused of lying when it says that there is no way to trace or refund the value of the cards. There are a large number of scams which involve pre-paid gift cards like store cards and iTunes gift cards. Here’s how the FTC describes them.

New website from the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality rewrites an important moment in history to educate the public on the dangers of deepfakes.

So many of us do it: the long scroll through grim news on social media before bed. A cognitive behavioral specialist offers advice on how to stop "doomscrolling" for the sake of your mental health.

What happens when a kumbaya office culture meets the business realities of a pandemic?