A "super-Earth" has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun, scientists said Wednesday in a breakthrough that could shine a light on Earth's nearest planetary neighbors.
HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro demonstrates huge improvements in terms of performance, security measures and battery life.
Nearly eight months after one of its autonomous test vehicles hit and killed an Arizona pedestrian, Uber wants to resume testing on public roads.
NASA has lost a second spacecraft this week, ending a fruitful mission in the asteroid belt.
The next generation of biotech food is headed for the grocery aisles, and first up may be salad dressings or granola bars made with soybean oil genetically...
For kids growing up in today’s cashless society, the piggy bank is going virtual.
Forget swiping though endless profiles. Dating apps are using artificial intelligence to suggest where to go on a first date, recommend what to say and even...
For the past few years, the smartphone industry has been searching for a breakthrough to revive a market mired in an innovation lull and a sales slump.
Kenzo Takada, the Japanese designer who retired at the height of his career nearly 20 years ago, wants to show the world how he came up with the pathbreaking...
Billboards across Cairo advertise luxury homes with “breathtaking” views in compounds with names like “La Verde” or “Vinci” in Egypt’s new capital that is...
Would-be fathers have long been advised to wear boxer shorts and avoid hot tubs, to avoid too much heat damaging their reproductive chances.
Move more, sit less and get kids active as young as age 3, say new federal guidelines that stress that any amount and any type of exercise helps health.
As a group of tourists, foreign NGO workers and a smattering of Lebanese gather next to the St. George Hotel on Beirut’s waterfront,
From abstract paintings and velvet sofas to Orthodox icons and Persian carpets, the 11th annual Art of Living exhibition strikes visitors with a staggering...
Adventurer Ross Edgley became the first man to swim around the coast of mainland Britain as he completed a 2,865 kilometer-trip to make a triumphant return to...
The Philippines’ most famous resort island, Boracay, will reopen Friday after a six-month cleanup intended to fix the damage done by unrestrained mass tourism.
Ford won't be moving production of a hatchback wagon to the United States from China - despite President Donald Trump's claim Sunday that his taxes on Chinese...
The Ford Mustang – an iconic American brand and a symbol of cool – reached a major milestone Wednesday as the 10 millionth vehicle rolled off an assembly line...
Most leading phones offer the same basics: big screens, decent battery life and good cameras.
Japan's space agency Monday launched a rocket carrying a satellite that will monitor greenhouse gases, as well as the first satellite built entirely in the...
Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it...
Chinese executive Miao Qing spits into a specially designed container, destined for a lab where her saliva will be analyzed and sequenced, offering an insight...
There’s a lot of talk going around in the tech sphere about Huawei Y9 2019, mainly dubbing the smartphone the device that caters to the young and trendy...
Apple offers you a simple trade-off with its new iPhone XR, the middlebrow cousin to the top-of-the-line iPhone XS. On the one hand, the XR lacks the...
European and Japanese space agencies said an Ariane 5 rocket successfully lifted a spacecraft carrying two probes into orbit Saturday for a joint mission to...
China is planning to launch its own “artificial moon” by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday.
State-of-the-art sensors that can measure stress levels, mood, posture, performance and even smell took center stage at Asia's top high-tech fair in Tokyo.
It's now possible to check in automatically at Shanghai's Hongqiao airport using facial recognition technology, part of an ambitious rollout of facial...
The remarkable technique that was used to identify the suspected “Golden State Killer” four decades after his crimes genetic genealogy could be used to...
A team of researchers has produced viable offspring from same-sex pairs of mice, using a novel technology that involves stem cells altered to remove certain...
A booster rocket carrying a Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian and U.S. astronaut on board headed for the International Space Station failed midair Thursday,...
Google’s new Pixel phones mirror a trend toward lusher, bigger screens and add twists on the camera for better pictures.
Astronomers may have found the first moon outside our solar system, a gas behemoth the size of Neptune.
A Japanese spacecraft has dropped a German-French observation device to land on an asteroid as part of a research effort intended to find clues to the origin...
After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and a H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said Wednesday they...
Three prominent U.S. scientists have been pushed to resign over the past 10 days after damning revelations about their methods, a sign of greater vigilance...
A new high-speed rail link between Hong Kong and mainland China launched Sunday, a multibillion-dollar project that critics say gives away part of the city’s...
Hi-tech, cheap – and quiet. The Ivorian resort of Jacqueville, just outside the city of Abidjan, is betting on solar-powered three-wheelers as it looks to...
Facebook said Friday a dating service it teased early this year is being rolled out in Colombia. The social media giant chose the Latin American country as...