Sci/Tech News

November 13, 2019

Lawsuit aims to kill stalled $2B methanol refinery project

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday aims to keep one of the world's biggest methanol refineries from being built along the ...

November 12, 2019

Google's health care ambitions now involve patient data

Google announced a partnership with a large U.S. health care system aimed at modernizing its information system and providing ...

November 12, 2019

Record cold follows early snowstorm over much of eastern US

Snow and cold records fell as an arctic airmass that started in Siberia spilled over a big chunk of the eastern half of the U

November 12, 2019

Report: Election vendors are 'prime targets,' need oversight

The private companies that make voting equipment and build and maintain voter registration databases lack any meaningful ...

November 12, 2019

Leader of food security nonprofits to head World Food Prize

The foundation that awards the World Food Prize to individuals who work to improve food security in hopes of ending world ...

November 12, 2019

Tourists, Venetians slosh through flooded lagoon city

Tourists and Venetians alike donned high boots and took to strategically placed raised walkways on Tuesday to slosh through ...

November 12, 2019

Zimbabwe says 200 elephants have now died amid drought

More than 200 elephants have died amid a severe drought, Zimbabwe's parks agency said on Tuesday, and a mass relocation of ...

November 12, 2019

France hosts world leaders to address global challenges

French President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders have called for greater international cooperation to ease the world's ...

November 12, 2019

The Latest: EU asks UK to name commissioner even temporarily

The Latest on Britain's Dec. 12 election and the country's impending departure from the European Union (all times local): ...

November 12, 2019

Air quality sinks to 'severe' in haze-shrouded New Delhi

A thick gray haze blanketed India's capital on Tuesday, with authorities attempting to reduce the pollution by sprinkling ...

November 12, 2019

Winds fan ferocious fires in Australia's most populous state

Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency-level intensity across Australia's most populous state and into Sydney's ...

November 12, 2019

Rare deer-like species photographed for first time in wild

A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam, ...

November 12, 2019

Winter already? Snow, deep freeze from Rockies to East Coast

An arctic air mass that brought snow and ice to an area stretching from the Rocky Mountains to northern New England on Monday ...

November 12, 2019

Mini Mercury skips across sun's vast glare in rare transit

Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used ...

November 11, 2019

Safety officials probing records of work on Southwest jets

Southwest Airlines says it will speed up inspections of dozens of used planes it bought from foreign airlines after federal ...

November 11, 2019

Rebirth, angst and the 'new normal' of California wildfires

Tina Chandler walks outside her home and sniffs the air. "Do you smell smoke?" she asks. Even when the scent is no longer ...

November 11, 2019

Group says misinformation on the rise on Facebook

In a story Nov. 6 about misinformation on Facebook, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a false story about ...

November 11, 2019

Scientific groups remove job posts over LGBTQ policy at BYU

Two well-known scientific groups have dropped job postings from their websites from Brigham Young University because of the ...

November 11, 2019

The most destructive hurricanes are hitting US more often

Big, destructive hurricanes are hitting the U.S. three times more frequently than they did a century ago, according to a new ...