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  • Melting glacier in China draws tourists, climate worries

    On the edge of the Third Pole, a retreating glacier draws tourists, worries over climate change

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• Oct 20

  • Snake names honor Darwin, fire god, Louisiana professor

    A Louisiana biologist is in heady company these days, honored by having a newly identified species of snake named after him

    Oct 20

• Oct 20

  • Is there interference in the 2018 US midterm elections?

    Is there interference in the 2018 US midterm elections?

    Oct 20

• Oct 20

  • Europe, Japan send spacecraft on 7-year journey to Mercury

    European and Japanese space agencies say an Ariane 5 rocket has successfully lifted a spacecraft into orbit for a joint mission to Mercury, the...

    Oct 20

• Oct 19

  • Russian woman charged in first 2018 election meddling case

    U.S. charges Russian woman in the first case involving meddling in the 2018 elections.

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • The Latest: Russian woman charged with US election-meddling

    A Russian woman has been charged with interfering in American elections, including next month's midterms, through a social media effort aimed at...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Hackers breach HealthCare.gov system, get data on 75,000

    A government computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov was hacked earlier this month, compromising the sensitive personal data of some 75,000...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • US temporarily stops youth climate lawsuit days before trial

    The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a high-profile climate change lawsuit brought by young activists who accuse the federal government of...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • The Latest: Supreme Court stalls youth climate change case

    The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a high-profile climate change lawsuit that 21 young activists brought against the federal government

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Laureates in Spanish awards call for action to "save future"

    Voicing wake-up calls for new generations to save cinema, oceans and journalism, film director Martin Scorsese, marine biologist Sylvia A. Earle and...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Oldest Brazilian fossil found in debris of National Museum

    One of the most prized possessions of Brazil's National Museum has been found amid debris after a massive fire on Sept. 2 sent the building up in...

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  • Facebook recruits EU veteran to help with tougher scrutiny

    Facebook has hired former U.K. deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to head its global policy and communications teams, enlisting a veteran of European...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Spain considers new taxes on internet companies

    Spain's Socialist government wants to introduce new taxes on big internet companies and on financial transactions as a way of paying for improved...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Louisiana university gives Smithsonian crustacean collection

    A Louisiana university is giving the Smithsonian Institution an extensive crustacean collection that has been used to identify seafood mislabeled as...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Russia to build two-reactor nuclear plant in Uzbekistan

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and the president of Uzbekistan have agreed that Russia will build the ex-Soviet republic's first nuclear power plant

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Europe, Japan ready spacecraft for 7-year journey to Mercury

    The BepiColombo spacecraft will blast into orbit from French Guiana late Friday.

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • China says ex-Internet czar on trial over corruption charges

    China's former internet censor is standing trial over corruption allegations

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Melinda Gates speaks on smoothing the shift to digital age

    Melinda Gates speaks to AP about foundation-supported effort to smooth the shift to the digital age, ensuring the jobs lost to robots and artificial...

    Oct 19

• Oct 18

  • Australia lawyers' group: Draft cyber laws would curb rights

    Australian lawyers' group say proposed cybersecurity laws to force companies such as Facebook and Google to help police by unscrambling encrypted...

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Facebook's election 'war room' takes aim at fake information

    Facebook gears up 'war room' to combat potential abuses of its social network heading into major elections in Brazil, US

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • What's next for Paul Allen's big investments? It's not clear

    What's next for Paul Allen's technology, research and philanthropy commitments? It's not clear

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • States and feds unite on election security after '16 clashes

    Election officials and federal cybersecurity agents are touting improved collaboration toward confronting and deterring election tampering

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Wet and mild: Warm winter predicted for much of the US

    The National Weather Service is predicting a warmer than normal winter for about three-quarters of the nation

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Lab worker files suit after plutonium shipping led to firing

    A former worker at a national laboratory who was fired for shipping weapons-grade plutonium by air instead of ground alleges in a lawsuit that he was...

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • European and Asian leaders seek to boost trade, security

    Europe and Asia should use their combined economic clout "to tackle global challenges such as trade tensions that put millions of jobs at risk" and...

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • MoviePass operations under investigation by New York AG

    Operations at MoviePass discount service for tickets are being investigated by the New York Attorney General

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

    A California-based startup has announced big plans to go small as it reaches into space, rocketing satellites the size of loaves of bread into orbit...

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Journal retracts stem cell work by former Harvard scientist

    The New England Journal of Medicine is retracting a 2011 study and is investigating two earlier ones describing stem cell research by a former Harvard...

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Taxi drivers in Warsaw protest unlicensed Uber drivers

    Hundreds of taxi drivers have driven slowly through Poland's capital city Warsaw causing some traffic jams in protest against low earnings and...

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Google launches next generation smartphones

    Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones feature larger screens and improved wide-angle cameras.

    Oct 18

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• Oct 17

  • West Coast quake warning system now operational, with limits

    Automated alerts from the fledgling West Coast earthquake early warning system are ready to be used broadly by businesses, utilities, schools and...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Experts urge gulf refuge for endangered vaquita porpoise

    Experts are urging Mexico's government to use floating barriers to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where a half dozen critically...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

    A California-based startup says it will rocket small satellites into orbit from Virginia

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Twitter airs election meddling data

    Twitter releases all of the accounts and posts related to "information operations" it has found on its service since 2016

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• Oct 17

  • Oldest fossils on Earth? New look finds might just be rocks

    New study says what were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be rocks

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • EPA puts off final say on science transparency rule

    The Environmental Protection Agency says it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Newly published files confirm plan to move Assange to Russia

    Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate Assange from his embassy hideaway in London by naming him as a...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Tornadoes are spinning up farther east in US, study finds

    Scientists aren't certain why the areas in which storms develop are shifting.

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Netflix shares jump 6 percent on strong subscriber growth

    Netflix shares are jumping 6 percent in early trading after the company reported a big increase in subscribers

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Slovak PM: Foreign hackers targeted foreign ministry

    Slovakia's prime minister says his country's foreign ministry was hit by a "very sophisticated" cyber attack

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • YouTube goes down worldwide for about an hour

    Visitors to the video site had pages load halfway, then stall before an "internal sever error" message.

    Oct 17

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• Oct 16

  • YouTube goes down for more than an hour

    YouTube goes down for more than an hour

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • Potentially deadly infection hits California sea lions

    A rescue center says California sea lions are coming down with a potentially fatal bacterial infection in near-record numbers

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • Shanghai airport automates check-in with facial recognition

    Shanghai's Hongqiao airport is using an automated flight check-in system powered by facial recognition technology, as China pushes to integrate...

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • Netflix's 3Q subscriber growth gets rave reviews on Wall St.

    Netflix regains its stride with strong subscriber growth during the summer after stumbling badly in spring

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • Ex-Equifax manager gets home confinement for insider trading

    A former Equifax manager has been sentenced to serve eight months home confinement after pleading guilty to insider trading in the wake of the...

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • NASA astronaut describes close call following failed launch

    The NASA astronaut who survived last week's failed launch and emergency landing says he knew he needed to stay calm

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • Google to charge for apps on Android phones in Europe

    Google to start charging for pre-installed apps on Android phones sold in Europe

    Oct 16