Sci/Tech News

September 23, 2018

NC river swirls with gray muck near flooded coal ash dump

Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash ...

September 22, 2018

World leaders gather at UN under threat from unilateralism

With rising unilateralism challenging its very existence, the United Nations convenes its annual meeting of world leaders ...

September 23, 2018

Storms dump record rain in Oklahoma and cause death in Texas

A storm system dumped record amounts of rain in parts of Oklahoma and caused flooding in Texas, including in the Dallas area, ...

September 22, 2018

Travel still dangerous in flooded areas of North Carolina

Travel remained dangerous Saturday in southeastern North Carolina, where the governor warned of "treacherous" floodwaters ...

Smita Depani, Jayanti Depani, Puspa Manva

September 22, 2018

Florence sweeps away motel and family's hard work, savings

When the floodwaters from Florence receded, half the Starlite Motel was gone. A ragged lip of concrete edged parking spaces ...

September 21, 2018

Twitter finds software privacy bug affecting direct messages

Twitter says it found a software bug that may have sent some private messages to the wrong people. But the company says the ...

September 21, 2018

Report: Missouri landfill emissions once posed health risks

Emissions near a troubled St. Louis County landfill once posed health concerns for workers and nearby residents, but the ...

September 21, 2018

New California law helps utilities with wildfire lawsuits

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a measure Friday allowing utilities to bill their customers to pay for future legal settlements ...

September 21, 2018

Memory's frailty may be playing role in Kavanaugh matter

She says he sexually assaulted her; he denies it. Is somebody deliberately lying? Not necessarily. Experts say that because ...

September 21, 2018

Oklahoma astronaut corn maze photographed from space

It's apt that a maze cut into an Oklahoma cornfield featuring the likeness of a former NASA astronaut can be seen from space ...

September 21, 2018

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue headlines of the week. None of these stories is legit, even ...

September 21, 2018

Congressmen question Google over kids' privacy on YouTube

Two members of Congress are calling on Google to address concerns that YouTube might violate children's privacy. Rep.

September 21, 2018

Food researcher defends work after resigning from Cornell

A prominent food researcher is defending his work a day after Cornell University said he engaged in academic misconduct and ...

September 21, 2018

Good rhino news in South Africa, where killing rate drops

South Africa is reporting some cautiously good news for rhinos after years in which poachers killed them in record numbers.

September 21, 2018

Japan space rovers lowered to asteroid to collect data

A Japanese spacecraft released two small rovers on an asteroid on Friday in a mission that could provide clues to the origin ...

Jose Perez-Santiago, Rosemary Acevedo-Gonzalez

September 21, 2018

Reckoning with loss of homes, livelihoods after Florence

With Florence's floodwaters receding in some places and still menacing others, tired and waterlogged North Carolinians are ...

September 21, 2018

Puerto Rico marks 1 year since Maria with song and sadness

Clapping and raising their hands to the sky, hundreds of people clad in white gathered at an 18th-century fort in the Puerto ...

September 21, 2018

FBI: Solar observatory closed after child porn case opened

The mysterious closure of a solar observatory in New Mexico earlier this month happened after the FBI opened a child ...

September 20, 2018

Floodwaters inundate lake at NC power plant, raising alarm

Duke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from ...