When a protest group with strong public support turns violent, people may perceive them as less reasonable. In turn, this leads people to identify with them less, and ultimately become less supportive, according to a new study by Stanford sociologist Robb Willer.

Young people must be prepared to strike for a long time for action on climate change and not back down, the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has told a rally in Denver. Thunberg said she and fellow youth activists would not beg those in power to act because she expected leaders to keep ignoring them.

PG&E’s blackouts in California are a bleak preview of the disruptions that will become routine in a warmer world.

"SHOTS!!!" was a milestone episode for Trey Parker and Matt Stone as it marked the 300th installment of their Comedy Central series.

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William G Kaelin, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg L Semenza win 9m Swedish kronor prize for work on how cells adapt to oxygen availability

It’s been a year for tech IPOs. Between less-than-stellar debuts for popular companies like Uber and SmileDirectClub, and WeWork’s IPO being shelved, there’s been a lot to write about. Today, both Uber and Lyft’s stocks reached their lowest prices since they began trading earlier this year. Uber’s stock hit a low of $28.65 before closing at $29.15, while Lyft hit $38.68 and closed at $39.57.

We already seem to know a lot about Google’s upcoming Pixel 4, including one of its new apps: “Recorder,” a new voice recorder app. In a recent 9to5Google hands-on, the app seemed pretty basic — hit a button to record, then share that audio file with other apps. Surprisingly, though, Google seems to have updated Recorder before it’s even been released, with one particularly handy feature: automatic audio transcription.

A monthly gauge of U.S. manufacturing showed its worst reading in more than 10 years in September as exports dived.

The remastered Aladdin and Lion King collection will include a bunch of extras, including a heavily tweaked version of Aladdin.

Earlier this summer, Apple announced a host of changes to its Maps app as part of the upcoming iOS 13 update. Now that the new operating system is finally here, the tech giant is beginning to gradually roll out those changes in the US. It started with California and Texas, and, as of this week, now includes the US Northeast.

'It was completely unexpected'

The iPhone 11-series barely hit store shelves in some regions and there’s already chatter about the 2020 successor. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that the 2020 iPhones will be redesigned, with Apple possibly looking at the past and recycle the iPhone 4’s metal frame in building the new models around it.

Just as we collectively transitioned from standard definition to high definition earlier this century, the TV industry is making it pretty hard to avoid upgrading to 4K. The ultra high-def display format is present in pretty much all TVs bigger than 40 inches or so, and they've become so affordable that you might as well get one even if you don't care about the jump in resolution.

Is the oil barrel half empty or half full? In the past week you had your pick of answers to choose from, and they were bookended nicely from the week’s beginning to its end. The missile and drone attack on the largest Saudi Arabian oil-refining operation, which resulted in the largest single-day gain for crude oil ever on Monday, reminded a world that had gone a long time without a geopolitical shock how central the role of oil remains.

When Teemu Airamo moved into his company's new Manhattan office in shared workspace provider WeWork, he had one overriding priority: to run a security scan on the building's Wi-Fi network. After all, he shared a space with more than 200 companies also co-working in the Financial District hub and didn't want anyone snooping around.

HONG KONG — The busy rush hour in Shenzhen, a new city of some 20 million people in Guangdong Province, is almost silent. Commuters whisper past on electric bikes and scooters or board one of Shenzhen’s fleet of electric buses and taxis, all part of the city’s pool of 90,000 new energy-efficient vehicles. It’s part of what Chinese city officials call “ecological civilization.”

Geology is a big science. The Earth is a large enough place today, but when you stretch the fourth dimension back across many millions of years, the largeness can get out of hand. Because we lose a lot of detail to the ravages of time, it's very difficult for geology to get small again—to tell us about what happened in individual locations or over short periods of time.

Using "time outs" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests. Despite criticism of the "naughty step" strategy, children's anxiety did not increase and neither did their aggressive behaviour, the eight-year study of families found. But a UK psychologist said the key was how the technique was used.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Joel and Mary Rich, of Omaha, Nebraska, had sufficiently alleged they were subjected to emotional distress after their son, 27-year-old Seth Rich, was shot and killed in 2016 in Washington, D.C., in what authorities have said was a botched robbery near his home.

Rats can be taught to play hide and seek -- and they squeal with joy when they win, scientists have found.