British scientists have discovered a drug which fights all cancers by boosting the body's defences and prevents the disease returning by increasing natural immunity

Last week, a US District judge ordered the NSA to stop destroying data that pertains to a pre-Snowden lawsuit against the agency. There’s just one teensy weensy problem with that: Apparently NSA’s systems handle so much data that it literally cannot ...

The town manager of a hamlet in south eastern New Hampshire has defied demands that he pay a ransom to recover police department computer files taken hostage by Cryptowall, a newer piece of malware that encrypts hard drive contents of infected machin ...

One of the forgotten battles of the first world war was fought for Chilean dirt. Daniel A Gross traces the explosive story of nitrates from South America to the western front

An unmanned, high-altitude balloon owned by Google got tangled in a power line and crashed last week in Washington. The balloon’s entanglement ended up causing a power outage to some homes in the area, The Seattle Times reports.

Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko has said his first priorities were EU integration and to get Crimea back. The billionaire tycoon won Sunday’s presidential election with 54% of the vote, according to early results. Speaking at a press confer ...

Unless you’ve been on a media-free diet, you probably saw Jimmy Kimmel Live’s hilarious “What is Gluten?” video, in which none of the gluten avoiders interviewed could explain exactly what gluten is. The truth is, most of my gluten-free clients don’t ...

U.S. officials are considering using visa restrictions to prevent Chinese hackers from attending popular summer hacker conferences in Las Vegas as part of a broad effort to curb Chinese cyber espionage, a senior administration official said on Saturd ...

Early in tonight’s Hannibal season finale, one of the characters introduces the idea of the “imago,” the last form taken by an insect in the process of its metamorphosis from larva to pupa to adult. The imago is a transformation realized, a thing tha ...

Eager J.K. Rowling fans, don't expect to pre-order your copy of her next Cormoran Strike novel any time soon—at least not from Amazon. The Silkworm, the second novel from her mystery nom de plume Robert Galbraith, isn't out until June, but ...

Mohammed al-Qawli lost two British Telecoms (BT) have been providing communications infrastructure vital to America’s targeted killing programme in Yemen. Human rights charity Reprieve claim that providing the technology that allows the US military t ...

Burger King is scrapping its 40-year-old "Have It Your Way" slogan in favor of the more personal "Be Your Way." The chain says the new tag line will roll out across its marketing in the U.S., including in a TV ad that will begin a ...

New Yorker Anton Purisima claims a rabid dog bit him on a city bus. The result is the world’s largest ever lawsuit—and, if he wins, the awarding of more money than Planet Earth has.

A federal judge struck down Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage on Monday, saying it violated the U.S. Constitution, as gay rights activists cheered the long-sought victory and counties across the state quickly began issuing marriage licenses.

Radiation has spiked to all-time highs at five monitoring points in waters adjacent to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power station, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday.

In 2012, more than 15,000 people living near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant filed a criminal complaint at the Fukushima prosecutors’ office. They alleged that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese central government were c ...

This rare sea creature was hauled up from more than 800m beneath a Japanese ocean - and was given a public autopsy at Shizuoka Marine Science Museum.

The dust coughed up by stars during their death throes has always been a mystery to scientists. But trying to analyse the behaviour of this interstellar material involves going into deep space - and up until now that has hindered efforts to understan ...

NBC will be the only place to watch the Olympics for a very, very long time. The network has just locked down exclusive US rights to Olympic Games coverage through 2032. The new deal is extremely broad and covers just about any broadcast scenario you ...

Protesters set up camp outside the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Wednesday to fight plans they say will create a two-tier internet and hand control of the web to major corporations. The rally – reminiscent of the Occupy-style rallies that ...