Headlines about plastic-eating organisms belie tough, competitive road to development

The state has just had its warmest spring on record, causing permafrost to thaw and dramatically reshaping some areas

Communists Of Russia, a Marxist-Leninist communist party, said Thursday that it has asked Russia’s broadcasting regulator, Roskomnadzor, to block local access.

It’s not just you, it’s nearly everyone. Roughly 88% of Americans use a second device, like a phone or a tablet, while watching TV, according to the longtime internet researcher and venture capitalist Mary Meeker. She released her annual internet trends report today (June 11).

A book borrowed from an Irish library has been returned more than 80 years after it was due to be taken back. The White Owl by Annie MP Smithson was borrowed on 23 July 1937 from Donegal County Library in the Irish-speaking Gaeltacht area of Gweedore. It was returned to Gweedore Public Library on 17 May.

Adding to the family! Robin Williams’ son Zak Williams welcomed his first child with fiancée Olivia June, Us Weekly can confirm. The mental-health advocate, 36, and the tech-startup founder’s son was born on May 22, according to a rep. The little one weighed 8 lbs. and was 20-and-a-half inches long.

Researchers may have found the dense remains of a massive asteroid buried under the surface of the moon.

No longer at the food fringes, plant-based meats are selling well in supermarkets and emerging as a hot commodity for fast food chains, industrial food companies and Wall Street investors. JPMorgan Chase has estimated the market for plant-based meat could easily top $100 billion in 15 years.

Heatstroke kills monkeys as India suffers in searing temperatures

Project with Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy and data harvesting

A job is boring or monotonous when it ceases to become interesting to the individual performing. Monotony is not a characteristic of a particular job. It is characteristic of the worker and the job at a particular time. A job that looks boring or monotonous to one individual may arouse the interest of another individual.

A lawsuit by a group of young people who say U.S. energy policies are causing climate change and hurting their future faces a major hurdle Tuesday as lawyers for the Trump administration argue to stop the case from moving forward.

Federal researchers have disclosed high levels of radiation in giant clams near where waste from U.S. nuclear testing was buried in the Marshall Islands.

Chris Hemsworth has been enjoying a busy few years, after taking on the now-iconic role of Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and then landing the gig on its comparatively superior merits. ‘Robots’ are not currently algorithmically scanning LinkedIn and Monster.com with an intent to displace you with their artificial intelligence. Nor are ‘robots’ gathered in the back of a warehouse somewhere conspiring to ta...

Ian Danskin, who makes videos under the moniker Innuendo Studios, has made a name for himself on the internet for his YouTube series on the techniques and beliefs of the alt-right. His most recent video, “The Card Says Moops,” is worth watching in full, but there was one particular line in it that struck me. Danskin points out that, even when their beliefs skew towards the bizarre and conspiratorial, people on the online right often identify as “rationalists.”

Many Facebook investors are furious at Mark Zuckerberg, but can't do anything about it. Investors in other companies will soon feel their pain.

Donald Trump has admitted Russia aided his election to the White House for the first time during a Twitter tirade attacking Robert Mueller. It comes the morning after Mr Mueller, speaking publicly for the first time in two years, appeared to hint at the prospect of the president's impeachment by noting only congress has the authority to "formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing".

For a while, the residents of Manitoba Colony thought demons were raping the town's women. There was no other way of explaining how a woman could wake up with blood and semen stains smeared across her sheets and no memory of the previous night.

Nine people have been arrested in Thailand, Australia and the U.S. and 50 children were rescued after an investigation into an international paedophile ring.