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A historic drought tied to climate change is making wildfires harder to fight.

The chief of the World Health Organization has honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific breakthroughs, including research about the coronavirus

"Star Trek" star William Shatner and three other civilian crewmembers were launched into space and returned to Earth after a 10-minute trip.

Shatner was overcome with emotion upon his return to earth.

Hundreds of people in Spain’s Canary Islands are fearing for their homes and property after a new lava stream from an erupting volcano threatened to engulf another neighborhood on the island of La Palma

U.S. safety investigators want to know why Tesla didn’t file recall documents when it updated Autopilot software to better identify parked emergency vehicles, escalating a simmering clash between the automaker and regulators

The International Energy Agency is urging governments to make stronger commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions at an upcoming U.N. climate summit

Plus "Tile" announces world's first tracking tag to work with Android and Apple devices.

Australia has agreed to build a 44-pound semi-autonomous lunar rover for NASA to take to the moon as early as 2026

A government agency says England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defenses against more extreme weather brought by climate change

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Plus Facebook has launched an audio hub to compete with Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse.

Pacific Gas & Electric has started cutting power to about 25,000 customers in northern and central California as high winds toppled trees, downed power lines and ignited at least one of several fires that forced people to flee from their homes

A former utility executive who lost billions on a failed nuclear project in South Carolina is heading to prison soon

Amazon says it will allow many tech and corporate workers to continue working remotely indefinitely as long as they can to commute to the office when necessary

Idaho officials will make available up to $200,000 to be divided into payments for hunters and trappers who kill wolves in the state through next summer

Hundreds of protesters from climate group Extinction Rebellion have blocked a busy intersection near the temporary home of the Netherlands’ parliament

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska early Monday in what the Alaska Earthquake Center called an aftershock of an 8.2 quake from July

When the pandemic hit the U.S. last year, grocery delivery company Instacart suddenly became a lifeline for millions of consumers

The new feature will prompt teens to take a break from Instagram and nudge them if they’re repeatedly looking at the same harmful content.

U.S. hydropower generation is forecast to drop 14% this year compared with 2020 as drought grips vast areas of the West

When a 37-year-old data scientist went before Congress  to accuse Facebook of pursuing profit over safety, it was likely the most consequential choice of her life

"... we can see a relationship that is really sincere."

A new river of lava has belched out from the La Palma volcano, spreading more destruction on the Atlantic Ocean island where molten rock streams have already engulfed over 1,000 buildings

Nevada this week became one of the last states to include rapid antigen tests in its coronavirus tallies

Complex global talks have forged a deal on sweeping changes in how multinational companies are taxed

Mexico's newly-politicized government science board is now ordering researchers not to publicly criticize the body, and says they have to clear any public comments through it press office

Google said it’s enforcing a crackdown on misinformation pertaining to climate change in the coming months.

Firefighters and numerous studies credit forest thinning projects with helping to save communities like those near Lake Tahoe

Top science advisers to President Joe Biden are calling for a new “bill of rights” to guard against powerful new artificial intelligence technology

Nissan’s “intelligent factory” hardly has any human workers

The company has given into critics who accused tech giants of monopolizing repairs on their devices

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric car maker will relocate its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, Texas

An executive who lied to regulators about two South Carolina nuclear plants that never generated a watt of power has been sentenced to two years in prison

Barry Diller’s IAC is buying Meredith, one of the country’s largest magazine companies and the publisher of People, Southern Living and InStyle, in hopes of accelerating a digital shift as print fades

A powerful earthquake has collapsed at least one coal mine and as many as 100 mud houses in a remote, mountainous part of southwest Pakistan

The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma has shut down again due to ashfall from a volcano that has been erupting for almost three weeks

The feature would warn users if they are about to engage in a conversation that could turn toxic.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has described social media as a “coward’s palace” and warns that digital platforms such as Facebook should be held liable for defamatory comments posted anonymously

Health officials say it’s OK to get your COVID-19 vaccine and flu vaccine at the same time

Local officials say strong earthquake in Pakistan has killed at least 11 people, injured 200

New Mexico authorities say a man on probation has been charged in the fatal beating of his wife with an ax after authorities used data from his ankle monitor to find her body in a national forest where the couple had gone to cut firewood

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for finding an “ingenious” and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make a variety of compounds, including medicines and pesticides

The tech giant plans to unveil the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro at a virtual event in two weeks.

Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to 2 scientists for a tool to build molecules

Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to 2 scientist for a tool to build molecules

An Australian government minister says a review of defamation laws will likely examine whether platforms such as Facebook should be liable for users’ defamatory posts

A Rwandan woman who was orphaned during her country’s genocide and lost part of her leg to childhood cancer has been fitted with a new prosthetic leg

Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize for physics for work that found order in seeming disorder

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours