A new way of studying planets in other solar systems - by doing sort of an autopsy on planetary wreckage devoured by a type of star called a white dwarf - is showing that rocky worlds with geochemistry similar to Earth may be quite common in the cosm ...

Humpback whales use their flippers to create a barrier that traps gathered prey, which they can then usher towards their mouths by swatting the water. Using aerial photography and filming, researchers were able to capture this foraging strategy for t ...

At 10am on a late November morning in Freiburg, Germany, a bank employee noticed something was wrong with a bank ATM. It had been hacked with a piece of malware called "Cutlet Maker" that is designed to make ATMs eject all of the money insi ...

These days, the Roman Catholic Church is synonymous with child sexual abuse. We owe nobody an apology for saying this. It's the truth. Cases of child sexual abuse and subsequent cover-ups committed during the 20th and 21st centuries by Catholic ...

Tech companies are censoring information about the demonstrations in Hong Kong. Civil liberties experts say this is symptomatic of larger problems.

The 1996 title featuring Christopher Walken was held up as an exemplar of gaming’s future. But things didn’t exactly work out that way.

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a capsule strong enough to survive stomach acid.

Billions of people worldwide access the internet only through their phones. But using a cheap smartphone comes with some serious trade-offs.

The pterosaur fossil is most closely associated with species from the other side of the world, suggesting these creatures could circumnavigate the globe.

A device that cycles 24/7 to produce enough water from desert air to drink is close to hitting the market.

Two days after rallying 7 million protesters across the world by invoking the threat of climate change, Greta Thunberg was credited for motivating voters to redraw the political landscape in Austria.

What does it mean for us that birds are dying? And what can we do about it?

Supply chain sources claim that Samsung will adopt a quadcamera setup for the Galaxy S11, including a 108MP sensor and a 5X optical zoom telephoto lens. It seems like Samsung has decided to fight Apple, Google and Huawei to capture the title of best ...

Jeff Bezos would pay about $9 billion in taxes this year under Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposed wealth tax. As part of his presidential primary campaign and efforts to outflank the rise of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sanders announced a wealth tax that would ...

In the latest example of cooperation between Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla, the former appears to be using battery packs from the latter in their “Starship” prototype, a vehicle they hope will help humanity get to Mars. SpaceX is currently focused on ...

Mass migration begins as coastal homes are bulldozed in the state facing the biggest threat from climate-driven inundation. Lori Rittel is stuck in her Florida Keys home, living in the wreckage left by Hurricane Irma two years ago, unable to rebuild ...

Amazon announced last week it wanted to hire 30,000 employees — and a whopping 208,000 people applied, the ecommerce giant said Wednesday in touting the success of a recent recruitment drive it held in six cities as part of the hiring spree.

Researchers are getting close to manufacturing viable human embryos from stem cells. They say there needs to be a law against turning them into people.

When hackers took over the Twitter account of Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, last week, they used an increasingly common and hard-to-stop technique that can give them complete access to a wide array of the most sensitive digital accounts, in ...

Legislature to consider ‘tradition as old as Parliament itself’ recently found discriminatory by humanist association.