Sci/Tech News

October 21, 2017

Google parent turns on internet balloons in Puerto Rico

Google's parent Alphabet Inc. said Friday that its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of ...

October 21, 2017

Questions and answers on proposed ban on laptops in luggage

First the U.S. government temporarily banned laptops in the cabins of some airplanes. Now it is looking to ban them from ...

October 21, 2017

Senators press Pruitt for concessions on biofuels mandate

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is looking to make peace on biofuels standards with a group of senators from ...

October 20, 2017

Top Democrat: WH won't ID employees who used private email

The White House counsel's office is refusing to tell a committee on Capitol Hill which of President Donald Trump's aides used ...

October 20, 2017

Monsanto sues Arkansas board for banning disputed herbicide

A major agribusiness company sued Arkansas regulators on Friday for banning its version of an herbicide that's drawn ...

October 20, 2017

Arctic refuge drilling closer as Senate moves to open site

Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one step closer to oil and gas drilling. A budget measure approved by the ...

October 20, 2017

Spacewalking astronaut copes with frayed tether, bad jetpack

A spacewalking astronaut successfully replaced a blurry camera outside the International Space Station on Friday, but had to ...

October 20, 2017

The Latest: Spacewalker's jetpack bad; ordered back inside

The Latest on a spacewalk by two NASA astronauts (all times local): 2:15 p.m. Spacewalking astronauts are back inside the ...

October 20, 2017

Nearly 200 report fireball streaking across Northeast sky

Nearly 200 people across the Northeast reported seeing a bright object streak across the sky. The American Meteor Society ...

October 20, 2017

Mormons allow more technology, smartphones for missionaries

The Mormon church's gradual embrace of the digital age for missionaries took another step forward Friday as the religion ...

October 20, 2017

Viral smartphone game lets ordinary Chinese 'clap' for Xi

Ordinary young Chinese may not have paid close attention to Xi Jinping's 3½-hour speech this week, but they're happy to ...

October 20, 2017

Searchers in Mexico find, but release, vaquita porpoise calf

Researchers trying to catch and enclose the last survivors of the vaquita porpoise species captured a calf but released it ...

October 20, 2017

Backers of oil terminal pour money into Washington port race

Developers of a proposed oil-by-rail terminal that would be the largest in the nation have poured big money into a port ...

October 20, 2017

EPA orders more repairs at Texas toxic site following Harvey

The Environmental Protection Agency ordered two companies on Thursday to make more extensive repairs to stabilize the area ...

October 19, 2017

Applying for a credit card? Please take a selfie

The selfie is everywhere — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter — and soon your bank could be asking for one in order to approve your ...

October 19, 2017

Police video shows large bear peering into shop windows

A very large bear-about-town was spotted peering into shop windows in a California tourist community on Lake Tahoe.

October 19, 2017

Company seeks to build island off Alaska for Arctic drilling

America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won't be from a remote ...

October 19, 2017

Another warm winter forecast for swath of US

Much of the U.S. should expect another warm winter, but not quite as toasty as the last two years, forecasters said.

October 19, 2017

Packers, Microsoft join in tech venture near Lambeau Field

The Green Bay Packers and Microsoft are launching a tech incubator near Lambeau Field in a $10 million partnership aimed at ...