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The real winner of a sweepstakes for a ride in space has finally come forward: a Florida-based airline pilot

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency say they have signed an agreement to participate in a next-generation nuclear energy project with TerraPower, a company started by Bill Gates

A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund's latest update on the Mekong region

Chipmaker Intel scored a decisive legal victory.

The rocket was launched seven years ago and is expected to crash into the moon in March.

Amazon will end its “Sold by Amazon” program after an investigation by Washington state’s attorney general found it was anticompetitive and violated antitrust laws

The Los Angeles City Council has approved a measure to ban new oil and gas wells and phase out existing ones

The crash likely will occur on the far side of the moon on March 4.

General Motors says it wants to add more than 8,000 technical workers this year

Scientists say they have been able to spark a fusion reaction that briefly sustained itself, a significant milestone on the long path to fusion power

Republicans’ faith in science is falling as Democrats rely on it even more, with a trust gap in science and medicine widening substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic

A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund's latest update on the Mekong region

Authors of a new scientific study say greater reliance on genetic testing of baby whales and their mothers may help save a rare species from extinction

"It is both an economic and national security imperative to solve this crisis."

The U.S. government plans to capture more wild horses on federal lands this year than ever before

Demand for Microsoft’s cloud-computing services and work software helped boost its quarterly profits by 21% as the pandemic continued to keep many office workers at home

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2021 was a record year for cyberattacks, according to one report.

Tonga’s main island could have its internet service restored within two weeks, although it may take much longer to repair the connection to the smaller islands

The world's biggest and most powerful space telescope has reached its final destination 1 million miles away

Facebook's parent company Meta says it has created what it believes is among the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers running today

Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is asking its shareholders to help it fight off a hostile takeover offer from “vulture hedge fund” Alden Global Capital

Apple is advising users to backup their data and to update their software.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lost control of his Chinese-owned social media platform WeChat account and a lawmaker has accused China’s leaders of political interference

"I get to spy on critters in the ocean, without disturbing them."

Federal authorities say the last of the escaped monkeys from a Pennsylvania highway crash of a truck towing a trailer load of the animals has been accounted for

Vice President Kamala Harris returned to her home state during challenging times for the White House to highlight funding for federal wildfire programs

Los Angeles, the second most populous U.S. city, is weighing whether to ban new oil and gas drilling and phase out hundreds of existing wells

A marine mammal rescue team is searching for an adult humpback whale that's entangled in debris off the coast of Hawaii

Colorado, the U.S. government and a gold mining company have agreed to resolve a longstanding dispute over who’s responsible for cleanup at a Superfund site that was established after a massive 2015 spill of hazardous mine waste

U.S. academics who help locate Holocaust mass graves and execution sites in Eastern Europe have used high-tech, ground-penetrating radar to identify potential burial sites of people who disappeared amid war and interethnic strife in Cyprus decades ago

The CEO of Peloton denied a report that the company was idling factories.

A Native American tribe has agreed to lease more of its water to help address dwindling supplies in the Colorado River Basin

Amazon Style fashion retail space will open later this year in California, the company announced Thursday.

It comes as amateurs enter a space once dominated by government-linked groups.

Two organizations that influence many Americans’ automobile buying decisions will begin rating vehicles on how well they track behavior of motorists who use partially automated driver-assist systems

The Washington Supreme Court has narrowly upheld an $18 million fine against an association of large food brands that funneled dark money into a state political campaign

The move comes amid renewed scrutiny of the tech giant’s influence and reach.

U.S. researchers are reporting the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs

As the massive undersea Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Tongans from around the world gazed on as their relatives livestreamed images of the billowing clouds of ash, gas and steam emerged from beneath the depths

The first flights carrying fresh water and other aid to Tonga finally arrived after the Pacific nation’s main airport runway was cleared of ash left by a huge volcanic eruption

A team of scientists has explored a rare, pristine coral reef off the coast of Tahiti

The feature limits the number of friend suggestions offered to teenagers using the platform.

Some flights to and from the U.S. have been canceled even after AT&T and Verizon scaled back the rollout of high-speed wireless service that could interfere with aircraft technology that measures altitude

Texas’ attorney general is suing Google, alleging the company asked radio DJs to record personal endorsements for smartphones that they hadn’t used or been provided

The local water district for wealthy Southern California communities in an enclave nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains is taking a more aggressive approach to conservation as the drought drags on despite a wet winter start

Microsoft stunned the gaming industry when it announced this week it would buy game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, a deal that would immediately make it a larger video-game company than Nintendo