Thirty thousand years ago, a dead star on the other side of the Milky Way belched out a powerful mixture of radio and X-ray energy. On April 28, 2020, that belch swept over Earth, triggering alarms at observatories around the world. The signal was there and gone in half a second, but that's all scientists needed to confirm they had detected something remarkable: the first ever "fast radio burst" (FRB) to emanate from a known star within the Milky Way, according to a study publishe...

Glaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change. We analysed two years in which glaciers in New Zealand melted the most in at least four decades: 2011 and 2018. Both years were characterised by warmer than average temperatures of the air and the surface of the ocean, especially during summer.

Fast food giant KFC has opened up about the quality of life its chickens endure before being sent to slaughter. KFC has reported that over a third of the birds used for its world-famous fried chicken suffer from a condition called footpad dermatitis. This painful condition causes inflammation in the feet, and can prevent the birds from being able to walk.

The world's biggest nuclear fusion project has entered its five-year assembly phase.

In what is considered to be the biggest technological leap of all time, NASA successfully landed twelve astronauts on the Moon between 1969 to 1972. Naturally, there is a lot of Apollo content on the web, including an extensive set of NASA documents. Since all of it can get pretty overwhelming, I’ve compiled a curated list of Apollo content for you to enjoy.

Idris Elba has an issue with the handful of films and television programs being removed from streaming platforms and the airwaves over racist content such as blackface. Over the last couple months, episodes of “30 Rock,” “The Golden Girls,” “The Office,” “Scrubs,” and more have been pulled for featuring blackface. Elba says in a new interview with Radio Times that these controversial episodes should not have been erased but updated with a warning or rating to ensure viewers know ...

Should everyone get to play moral police? Imagine if every single conversation or a heated discussion in our life was recorded and reviewed. Would all of our opinions pass through the filter of modern political correctness?

The report says the state will be facing hotter and drier conditions for decades to come, especially in West Texas.

ATLANTA (AP) — With teams in two sports taking a second look at names deemed offensive to Native Americans, the Atlanta Braves on Saturday gave no indication they are willing to consider a similar...

Apple is sending a clear message to people who've stolen iPhones from its stores: You're "being tracked." The company is actively disabling the iPhones that are stolen from the displays of its retail stores, leaving them inoperable.

It looks set to be another damaging Monday for U.S. stocks. The three major benchmark indexes suffered their biggest weekly losses since March 20 last week, as the Federal Reserve’s downbeat economic outlook and rising coronavirus cases unsettled investors. Fears of a second wave grew over the weekend and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.29% was 450 points lower, or 1.75%, in early trading.

Apple today has officially launched support for financing additional products with Apple Card and 0% interest. The new financing options are available for the Mac lineup, iPad, AirPods Pro, AirPods, Apple Pencil, and more. In December, Apple launched a new iPhone 0% financing option for Apple Card users, and during Apple’s most recent earnings call with investors, Tim Cook teased that similar promotions would soon be available for other Apple products and recent reports indicated the rollout w...

Research reveals that the coding or programming is stored in the same area of the brain as speech

The American economy just got a shocking piece of good news: The job market may be recovering well ahead of schedule. The US unemployment rate surprisingly fell to 13.3% in May, as the economy gained 2.5 million jobs. It was the largest monthly gain in new jobs since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking the data series in 1939.

Donald Trump‘s Electoral College victory in 2016 came from narrow wins in a handful of states — and no doubt that’s due to the fact that roughly 81% of white evangelical voters supported him. Given that current polling shows him losing to Joe Biden — but it’s early and no one should rest easy — he can’t really afford to lose his most devoted base. And yet even some of those evangelicals are starting to slip away from him.

No one should have been surprised by President Donald Trump’s co-opting of the symbols of American Christianity — a church, the Bible — to speak Monday to the white evangelical base that made his election possible. Every American president since George Washington has sworn his oath upon the Bible.