One of two baby peregrine falcons born on the University of California, Berkeley campus died after flying into a window, university officials said Wednesday
Researchers have developed a new way to non-invasively peer into a person's arteries, detect inflammation, and possibly ward off heart disease before it becomes too severe to treat, a study said Wednesday.
A growing chorus of voices denouncing sexist culture is echoing through male-dominated Silicon Valley, knocking a number of internet industry executives from their perches.
South Korean barista Lee Kang-bin is taking coffee art to the next level, creating miniature imitations of famous paintings on foamy cups of java at his central Seoul cafe.
American technology companies are bringing automation and robotics to the age-old task of battling mosquitoes in a bid to halt the spread of Zika and other...
A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science fiction film.
Apple Inc.’s iPhone turns 10 this week, evoking memories of a rocky start for the device that ended up doing most to start the smartphone revolution and...
Three decades after it abandoned vinyl production, Sony said it would start making records again on the back of surging demand for the retro music format.
HIV experts at an international conference starting on Saturday are keenly courting colleagues in oncology to explore whether advances in harnessing the...
Learning new things, eating and drinking well, not smoking and limiting hearing loss and loneliness could prevent a third of dementia cases, health experts...
Justin Zimmerman was a 7-year-old black boy in Moreno Valley, California, when O.J. Simpson was on trial for murder.
Whether in search of a glowing skull or a bright red heart, God’s Own Junkyard in London is a maze of multicolored neon of all shapes and sizes which is...
For Tamanna, a Lebanese non-profit inspired by Make-a-Wish Foundation, “things have a way of happening."
A trio of Lebanese fashion designers pooled their international experiences for Thursday’s Summer Pop-Up at the Cream Boutique in Saifi Village.
For three weeks, as the Tour de France riders did their thing, a team of Associated Press journalists who followed them valiantly ate and drank their way...
A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research center devoted to ninja – the black clad assassins known for secrecy and...
1983 shouldn’t have been particularly memorable for most people, but for me it was traumatic.
Developments over the past week or so have forced me to come to a startling conclusion: There’s a new crisis heading toward us and it’s unavoidable.
Being born without fingers can be tough for any child.
Russia's state communications watchdog threatened Friday to ban the Telegram messaging app, saying the company behind the service had failed to submit company...
U.S. social media giant Facebook launched a campaign in Britain on Friday to counter the spread of online extremism following warnings from Prime Minister...
Europe has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to sniff out habitable planets in other star systems, along with any life forms they may host.
Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world.
Killer heat is getting worse, a new study shows.Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously thought and...
10,000 New Yorkers interested in advancing science by sharing a trove of personal information, from cellphone locations and credit-card swipes to blood...
Robots are getting softer.Borrowing from nature, some machines now have arms that curl and grip like an octopus, others wriggle their way inside an airplane...
The clinging power of octopus tentacles has inspired a breakthrough new adhesive patch that works on wet and oily surfaces with potentially huge medical and...
Your next doctor could very well be a bot. And bots, or automated programs, are likely to play a key role in finding cures for some of the most...
NASA chose 12 new astronauts Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, hand-picking seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the...
As global automakers compete to bring the first flying car to market, Czech pilot Pavel Brezina is trying a different tack: Instead of creating a car that...
The risk is growing that Earth will be hit by an asteroid from a meteor stream known as the Taurids, Czech astronomers said on Tuesday
Apple appears poised to unveil a voice-activated, internet-connected speaker that would create a new digital pipeline into people’s homes.
The International Space Station welcomed its first returning vehicle in years Monday - a SpaceX Dragon capsule making its second delivery.
Make fun of the weatherman if you want but modern forecasts have quietly, by degrees, become much better.
A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed on the Kazakh steppe Friday, ending their...
A robotic policeman which can help identify wanted criminals and collect evidence has joined Dubai’s police force and will patrol busy areas in the city, as...
Nest Labs is adding Google’s facial recognition technology to a high-resolution home-security camera, offering a glimpse of a future in which increasingly...
Researchers in a New York cabbage patch are planning the first release on American soil of insects genetically engineered to die before they can reproduce.
The British inventor of an Iron Man-style jet suit has lofty hopes that his project, which started out as a fun experiment, could become a practical tool for...