One of the great ironies of climate politics is that America continues to subsidize — to the tune of billions of dollars a year — the very industries that are most responsible for the warming of the planet. Biden wants to put an end to that.

Facebook will not notify the more than half a billion people caught up in a huge leak of personal information, it has said. Over the weekend, it emerged that a vast trove of data on more than 530 million users – containing information including their phone numbers and dates of birth – was being made freely available online.

A man calling himself Grandmaster Jay has raised a disciplined, heavily armed militia. It has yet to fire a shot at its enemies, but it’s prepared for war.

I was born a mere four months after the final Apollo astronauts brushed gray dust from their spacesuits and lifted off from the Moon. As my interest in space grew over the years, and writing about this industry became my profession, I felt a deepening sense of regret for missing that glorious moment of triumph in our shared space history. I lived with that regret for decades—right up until April 8, 2016.

When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared?

News that Google's long-awaited custom-made chipset "Whitechapel" may show up in the Pixel 6 still has us excited.

As the Alabama warehouse votes on whether to unionize, Amazon has been facing mounting pressure from progressive lawmakers — and on Friday, the company went on the offensive, calling out Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for their criticism of the company’s policies. Predictably, tweets provoked more tweets, turning into days of jousting between progressives and a corporate PR account.

Nike on Monday filed a lawsuit against MSCHF over its controversial “Satan shoes” collaboration with rapper Lil Nas X.

Marin County will become the second Bay Area community experimenting with a guaranteed income program designed to improve the fortunes of lower-income residents. The Marin program will provide $1,000 monthly grants to 125 low wage-earning women of color who are raising at least one child in Marin County. It is being run not by the county but by the non-profit Marin Community Foundation. However, the Marin County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to contribute $400,000 to the program...

See how Mathematica was used to solve one of the cryptograms sent in a letter by the Zodiac Killer.

Wormholes play an essential role in various science fiction films — connecting two distant points in space. However, According to physics, these tunnels in spacetime are purely theoretical. Dr. Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo from the University of Oldenburg supervised an international team that has now introduced a new theoretical model in the science journal Physical Review Letters that make microscopic wormholes appear less far-fetched than in earlier theories.

Mikayla Holmgren already made history by competing in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant

President Biden is reportedly planning the first major hike in federal taxes in almost 30 years to fund the economic program set to follow the recently approved $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package. Unidentified sources told Bloomberg that the increases will reflect the promises Biden made during his 2020 campaign.

Atrained KGB agent, Vladimir Putin knows how to hide his feelings, but in 2013, after former President Barack Obama described him looking like “the bored kid in the back of the classroom,” Putin let it be known that he was furious. And rightly so: kids in the back of the room are rarely ambitious. Putin, from day one of his rule 21 years ago, has had big, ambitious plans for himself and for Russia.

As 2021 begins, Bitcoin’s rising price has brought forth the usual commentary that has dogged the digital cash project for a decade – that it is little more than a “bubble” propelled by market manipulation and euphoria.

Why do people like to use ancient personal organisers and music players?

Unopened letters more than 300 years old that were folded using mysterious techniques have now been read for the first time without opening them, a new study finds. For centuries, before mass-produced envelopes started proliferating in the 1830s, most letters across the globe were sent using letterlocking, a method of folding letters to become their own envelopes. These intricate techniques also often served to help recipients detect if mail had been tampered with.

The Gulf Stream is one of the most important forces on Earth that you will never see. This powerful ocean current brings warm waters from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean, carrying them past the east coast of the United States, all the way…

A little less than three years ago at the Computer Science Museum in Mountain View, California, the founders of a young company hailing from Cambridge, England addressed a crowd of celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs at Y Combinator’s August Demo Day promising a revolution in food science