Sci/Tech News

December 06, 2019

Nobel laureates chat with International Space Station crew

Winning a Nobel Prize is an achievement is a class of its own. But it might be even cooler to be an astronaut. That's the ...

December 06, 2019

Sanders announces $150B plan to expand broadband access

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is promising to invest $150 billion to bring high-speed internet to “every ...

December 06, 2019

Massive Polish coal mine sparks international dispute

Polluted air, noise, dry wells. The Turow lignite coal mine in Poland is causing trouble for the environment and local ...

December 06, 2019

Russian supply ship lifts off to International Space Station

An automatic Russian supply ship carrying tons of supplies successfully blasted off Friday heading for the International ...

December 06, 2019

Troubled waters: Open water swimming faces do-over of 2016

Haley Anderson has been through this before. In the lead-up to the Rio Olympics, all the talk about open water swimming ...

December 06, 2019

Mekong River’s new aquamarine color may be sign of trouble

The Mekong River has recently acquired an aquamarine color that may beguile tourists but also indicates a problem caused by ...

December 06, 2019

GM, Korea's LG Chem in venture to build factory in Ohio

General Motors and Korea's LG Chem have formed a joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery cell factory near ...

December 06, 2019

DHS retreats on possible facial screening of US citizens

The Homeland Security Department is backing away from requiring that U.S. citizens submit to facial-recognition technology ...

December 06, 2019

Amazon blaming Trump over Pentagon contract loss, judge says

Amazon is arguing in a court case that President Donald Trump's bias against the company harmed its chances of winning a $10 ...

December 05, 2019

US feels the heat as Trump pulls out of global climate pact

President Donald Trump is aiming to make the annual U.N.-sponsored climate talks underway in Madrid the last ones for full ...

December 05, 2019

EPA rejects ban on poison bombs against cattle predators

Trappers can keep using sodium cyanide bombs to kill coyotes and other livestock predators, the Trump administration said ...

December 05, 2019

Authorities say at least 28 killed in landslides in Burundi

At least 28 people have died in landslides in Burundi and that toll could grow with many people missing, local authorities ...

December 05, 2019

Miami Beach unveils traffic sculpture made of sand

It took artist Leandro Erlich two years and 330 tons (299 metric tons) of sand to create his largest work of art to date — ...

December 05, 2019

Spain launches app to fight trafficking of protected timber

Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition has launched a mobile app to fight the trafficking of tropical species of timber, ...

December 05, 2019

Portugal resists US appeal to bar Huawei from 5G network bid

Portugal won’t exclude Chinese companies from competing in a planned public tender for the country’s next-generation 5G ...

December 05, 2019

German farmers won’t appeal climate lawsuit defeat

Three German farming families say they won’t appeal a court’s decision to dismiss their climate change lawsuit against ...

December 05, 2019

AP Interview: New Zealand PM aims to limit spread of hate

New Zealand’s prime minister said she will do all she can to stop a man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers from ...

December 05, 2019

Surprising 1st results from NASA's sun-skimming spacecraft

NASA's sun-skimming spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, is surprising scientists with its unprecedented close views of our ...

December 04, 2019

Google co-founders step aside as antitrust scrutiny heats up

Google’s co-founders are relinquishing their executive positions just as state and federal regulators, not to mention the ...