A study that dug into the history of the Amazon Rainforest has found that indigenous people lived there for millennia with "causing no detectable species losses or disturbances". Scientists working in Peru searched layers of soil for microscopic fossil evidence of human impact.

Apple has announced a raft of new privacy protections at its annual software developer conference. They include a function called "private relay", where users' web browsing behaviour can be hidden from Apple, internet providers and advertisers. Apple has been under pressure to cut down on the tracking of user data.

Donald Johanson’s book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind was what first made me fall in love with paleoanthropology. While I have learned about dozens more fossils over the last two years, I still have a special place in my heart for Lucy. So you can imagine how excited I was to defend her from the lies of the young-earth creationists at Answers in Genesis! I once might not have known how to debunk their claims, but I now have the knowledge, the books, and a little bit of money needed to find ...

“Employers are becoming much more cognizant that yes, it’s about money, but also about quality of life.”

Newly leaked documents show that US officials in 1958 cavalierly planned a nuclear strike on China over a handful of disputed islands. As Washington once more stokes tensions with China, it’s a reminder of the callous recklessness at the heart of US foreign policy.

A team of space weather experts from Northumbria University has been awarded more than £400,000 to explore how to better predict the conditions in near-Earth space.

The latest analysis shows new car buyers not only paid more, but coughed up larger down payments to make a purchase happen.

A man has been charged with the murder of 20-year-old Agnes Akom. The 20-year-old Hungarian, who had been living in the UK for three years, has been missing since she left her home in Cricklewood Broadway, north-west London, on May 9.

An autonomous ship fitted with software developed by IBM is getting ready to sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the weeks ahead, according to the BBC. The Mayflower Autonomous Ship, which was completed and launched in September, is an artificial intelligence, solar-powered marine research vessel that will sail across oceans to collect environmental data. The ship commemorates the crossing of the original Mayflower 400 years ago.

On Feb. 5, an unidentified hacker broke into the computer system of a treatment plant in the Florida town of Oldsmar and temporarily changed the plant’s sodium hydroxide setting to a potentially dangerous level, according to local officials. It turns out that hacker wasn’t alone on the network.

For decades, ExxonMobil has deployed Big Tobacco-like propaganda to downplay the gravity of the climate crisis, shift blame onto consumers and protect its own interests, according to a Harvard University study published Thursday.

An experimental device that turns thoughts into text has allowed a man who was left paralyzed by an accident to construct sentences swiftly on a computer screen.

Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias has partnered with Netflix for another stand-up comedy special, Variety has learned exclusively. Entitled “The Comedy Event,” it will launch on the streamer later this year.

Microsoft Corp offered to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc. In what would be the biggest Internet deal since the ill- fated Time Warner-AOL merger, Microsoft sent a letter to Yahoo’s board on Thursday night to offer $31 per share in cash and stock.

City residents and elected officials pushed back after videos showed the Boston Dynamics robot in action.

New research shows that morningness/eveningness influences daily creativity.

The law governs friction that occurs when two solid surfaces come into contact with a thin layer of fluid between them.

Britain's biggest carmaker to suspend output at two factories because of global semiconductor shortage.

Getting consumer goods in shot is big business for movies and TV series, and items can now be added digitally.