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September 25, 2016

China begins operating world's largest radio telescope

The world's largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life ...

September 25, 2016

US guidelines on self-driving cars get good reception at G-7

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Sunday that his counterparts in the Group of Seven nations welcomed U.S.

September 24, 2016

Snapchat debuts recording 'Spectacles,' changes company name

Social media app Snapchat is introducing video-recording glasses called Spectacles and is changing its company name to ...

September 24, 2016

The Latest: About 100 homes in Palo, Iowa, evacuated

The Latest on flooding along rain-swollen rivers in Iowa (all times local): 5:30 p.m. About 100 homes in low-lying areas of ...

September 24, 2016

Warmer waters might prevent baby lobsters from surviving

Baby lobsters might not be able to survive in the ocean's waters if the ocean continues to warm at the expected rate.

September 24, 2016

Global efforts against ivory traffickers still falling short

Poaching syndicates shipped large amounts of African elephant ivory last year despite global calls to dismantle the ...

September 23, 2016

Expert Provides Tips to Be Safe from Yahoo Hack

If a foreign government is behind the massive computer attack that compromised a half billion user accounts at Yahoo, the ...

September 23, 2016

More Iowa cities mobilizing for flooding along Cedar River

Authorities in several Iowa cities were mobilizing resources Friday to handle flooding from a rain-swollen river that has ...

September 23, 2016

Italian Driver Races Up Dangerous Chinese Road

An Italian driver set a record Wednesday on one of the world's most dangerous roads. Fabio Barone covered the 6.8 mile route ...

September 23, 2016

UPS Testing Delivery by Drone

One of the largest package delivery companies in the world is stepping up efforts to figure out ways to integrate drones in ...

September 23, 2016

Foreign hacker who aided Islamic State gets 20 years in US

A computer hacker who helped the Islamic State by providing names of more than 1,000 U.S. government and military workers as ...

September 23, 2016

Widespread flooding from Julia hits eastern North Carolina

Schools are delayed and police in one eastern North Carolina community are asking people to stay out of downtown after ...

September 23, 2016

GOP lawmaker: FBI gave immunity to top Clinton aide

Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members were granted immunity deals in exchange ...

September 23, 2016

Laos promises to phase out tiger farms: Conservation groups

Laos has promised to phase out farms that breed endangered tigers for their body parts, a positive step from a country ...

September 23, 2016

No longer invite-only, "robo-cars" offered to Singaporeans

Autonomous vehicle software startup nuTonomy has made rides on its self-driving taxis available to the general public in ...

September 22, 2016

Pioneering California physicist dies; built important tool

A pioneering physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who helped build a key tool for studying the universe and ...

September 22, 2016

Yahoo hack steals personal info from at least 500M accounts

Computer hackers swiped personal information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts in what is believed to be the biggest ...

September 22, 2016

Satellite-based radar confirms man-made Texas earthquakes

Scientists used radar from satellites to show that five Texas earthquakes, one reaching magnitude 4.8, were caused by ...

September 22, 2016

Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list

Federal wildlife officials on Thursday made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered ...

September 22, 2016

Studies focus on acidic ocean impact on Dungeness crabs

Millions of pounds of Dungeness crab are pulled from Pacific Northwest waters each year in a more than century-old ritual for ...