After a decade of searching, the UC San Francisco scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” – lifelong, nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested – have discovered a second.

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are rejoining for a follow-up to iconic Battle Series Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Apple has confirmed. The new Film will be called Masters of the Air, and we will see the dynamic duo team up once again as executive producers.

New research highlights the fact that sex isn't necessarily good just because it resulted in an orgasm.

Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.

Amazon doesn't just want to bring its virtual assistant, Alexa, to your home. Now, it's aiming to have Alexa come with you everywhere, by putting it on your face, in your ears, and even on your finger. At a major media event on Wednesday, Amazon introduced a wide range of new products and services — all part of an ongoing effort to make Alexa an ever-more-important part of users' lives.

An electric patch makes hairless mice grow fur and may reverse balding in men when fitted inside a specially designed baseball cap. At the moment, men who don’t want to go bald can treat hair loss using minoxidil lotion, finasteride pills or hair transplant surgery. But minoxidil doesn’t work for everyone, finasteride can reduce sex drive and fertility, and surgery is painful and expensive.

President Donald Trump gets some of his worst marks from the American people when it comes to his handling of climate change, and majorities believe the planet is warming and support government actions that he has sometimes scoffed at. While the administration has rolled back regulations to cut emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from power and industrial plants and pushed for more coal use...

Nearly a year after Google’s #MeToo walkout, a previously unreported internal document details dozens of employees’ stories of harassment and retaliation for reporting workplace issues.

The Brazilian government has said it will reject an offer of aid from G7 countries to help tackle fires in the Amazon rainforest. French President Emmanuel Macron - who hosted a G7 summit that ended on Monday - said $22m (£18m) would be released. But Brazilian ministers say the money is not needed and accuse foreign powers of wanting control of the Amazon.

Asia’s discount retailers are aping Japanese or Korean culture, but it turns out most of their products – and their operations – are from China. But is this necessarily a bad thing, when customers can’t get enough?

We’ve all heard about the benefits of plant-based meat alternatives: reduced cholesterol, less impact on the land, animal-friendly, etc. But in terms of its reportedly environmentally friendly practices, how exactly does it measure up to traditional meat? Beyond Meat–makers of non-GMO meat-free burgers, sausages, and chicken strips–discovered it’s quite substantial.

Companies are increasingly insisting their ads do not appear near articles or videos that contain any of a long list of words. The blacklists are becoming more sophisticated, specific and extensive. Publishers worry about the revenue hit.

As a growing number of organisations seek to become major players in today’s data-driven economy, the data centre remains one of the most important pieces of business infrastructure. However, as the ice caps continue to melt at an alarming rate, is it really possible to sustain energy-guzzling data centres whilst trying to save the planet?

Globalisation has led to the rise of fast fashion but at what cost to the workers in developing nations?

Researchers pledge to continue using primates in search for transplant organs