Venus is the most Earth-like planet in size, composition and distance to our sun - but its surface is about 450C (842F).
In its latest ambitious digital policy announcement, the European Union has proposed creating a framework for a “trusted and secure European e-ID” (aka digital identity) — which it s
As part of a new project involving UK scientists, the worms will be flown to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday.
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Photo taken in 2019 shows a sea turtle near Indonesia's Maratua Island. /CFP A University of Auckland-led research showed for the first time at a global scale and across all kinds of species t
For more than a decade the site was a magnet for trolls and pure comic genius, but Yahoo Answers is set to be shut down.
Sid Singh was digging in his garden when he unearthed the fossilised remains of a creature dating back to the era of Pangea.
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As the world's climate warms, parasite-carried wildlife diseases will move north, with animals in cold far-north and high-altitude regions expected to suffer the most dramatic increases, warns a stud
Pterosaurs were winged cousins to dinosaurs and varied in size between being as massive as a fighter jet to as small as a sparrow.
Amazon is leveraging its investment in live-streaming site Twitch to expand its Amazon Music service. The company announced this morning Twitch’s livestreams will now be available in the Amazon
Autonomous vehicles have yet to become mainstream, but companies like Lyft, Cruise, Nuro and Aurora are still fighting the good fight. The AV space has always faced its share of regulatory and devel
Children who receive sustained treatment against common parasitic infections grow up to achieve a higher standard of living, with long-lasting health and economic bene
A collective of more than 1,000 researchers, academics and experts in artificial intelligence are speaking out against soon-to-be-published research claims to use neural networks to “predict cri
NASA’s plan to return to the Moon is ambitious enough on its own, but the agency is aiming to modernize international cooperation in space in the process. Today it published a summary of the
Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, on Thursday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's demand that his predecessor, Barack Obama, should be called to