Officials in western Japan's Mie Prefecture say a man who was a passenger on a cruise ship that was hit by the coronavirus has again tested positive after recovering from infection.

The directive will require people to stay home except for essential travel and will last until April 7, the mayor said.

We frequently hear advice that workers should stay home when they don’t feel well, but there are a lot of reasons why that option isn’t realistic or feasible for many workers. Presenteeism — when employees are unwell and should be away from work, but continue to work — at a time of a global pandemic is especially dangerous for co-workers, managers and employers.

Supposedly driven by the virus crisis, On-nomi (オン飲み, “Drinking on[line]”) is the practice of getting together with friends on the internet and having a drink together.

A look at what would happen if humans disappeared from Earth. How would ecology adapt and change to cope with the lack of human beings, and what will the earth look like into a future without humans.

Facebook and Twitter revealed evidence Thursday suggesting that Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect.

We found that a lack of critical skills about the online environment matched up with lower levels of education and employment.

A team of Canadian scientists has successfully isolated and grown copies of the coronavirus — bringing the world a step closer to finding a vaccine to fight the deadly illness. Researchers from the…

Twenty-four years after the death of classic children's author Dr. Seuss, his hidden manuscript is released Tuesday to the delight of fans of all ages.

The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission will not launch in 2020 due to a lack of time to test and qualify problematic parachutes and electronics vital to the spacecraft. European Space Agency director-general Jan Woerner made the announcement in a press conference Thursday after a meeting with Dmitry Rogozin, head of mission partner Roscosmos.

Astronomers study an exotic planet where they suspect iron droplets fall through the atmosphere.

Phrases like 'hardly helpful' and 'hot under the collar' typically trip up AI systems

The majority of Google's 100,000 employees are based in North America, and the policy change represents one of the most sweeping remote-work orders.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened the door to constitutional changes

Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium reported Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the virus, which has been labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization.

It’s a question that has baffled scholars for centuries: is pain a bodily experience or a mental one? Rich Harrison explains why this is such a complex problem to solve

America is worse at building and operating public transit than nearly all of its peers. Why is that? And what can we do to fix it?

Here's your newest mega-list of all new (English language) music releases/singles of this past week. Listen, enjoy, and don't forget to up vote your favorites so they climb on the list and stand out from the rest!

Australia’s privacy watchdog is suing Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data breach — which, back in 2018, became a global scandal that wiped billions off the tech giant’s share price yet only led to Facebook picking up a $5BN FTC fine. Should Australia prevail in its suit against the tech giant the monetary penalty could be exponentially larger.

Douglas Adams’s masterwork is blithely comic in tone but deeply serious in purpose

China's claims of how it's handling coronavirus recovery should be taken with more than a few grains of salt. Even before COVID-19 became a global crisis, Chinese leaders had been criticized for their handling of the situation and lack of transparency about the disease's progression. Things now look like they're on the upswing, and businesses even appear to be headed back to work — but whistleblowers and local officials tell Caixan that's just a carefully crafted ruse.

It’s cheap, it comes with a four-year warranty, and any repairs cost just $39—all of which makes it easy to overlook its shortcomings.

When martians descend on England in H.G. Wells’s novel “The War of the Worlds”, published in 1898, they incinerate troublesome humans and lay waste to suburban towns with heat-rays that turn all before them into a “a smoky dance of lurid flames”. Such ray guns have been a recurrent feature of science-fiction ever since.

"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.

The NBA wants its teams to prepare to play games without fans if necessary due to the coronavirus crisis, but LeBron James already says he wouldn’t play

It may have been sweetened, heated, filtered, and turned into a fraud—and the entire agricultural system is at risk as a result.

First comes denial. Then panic.

Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Twitter are encouraging workers to stay home.

Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.

There are now more than 50 known species of ‘plastivores,’ or plastic-eating organisms. One of these, the greater wax moth, is offering scientists hope in the fight against plastic pollution.