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US Central Command says the strikes were taken in "self-defence", while Iran reports it downed a US drone that entered its airspace.

American Airlines said it will install SpaceX's Starlink for inflight Wi-Fi on more than 500 of its airplanes.

Protesters have been there for days amid a detainee hunger strike. Sherrill says she was denied access.

Apple wants to bring noninvasive glucose monitoring to Apple Watch, and a new report indicates the project has hit a notable turning point.

Matt Brown still doesn’t buy Conor McGregor is actually fighting again no matter how many times he says otherwise.

Brain atrophy tends to begin in your 30s and 40s, but certain lifestyle changes can slow or even reverse shrinkage.

After the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations in 2022, it soon made a tantalizing discovery in the form of mysterious red dots: small, red-tinted astronomical objects of unknown orig…

As Patrick LaRochelle waits in a specialized hospital room in Prague to see whether he has Ebola, his former colleagues in Congo are beginning to die of the deadly disease.

Three times in the past week, healthcare facilities have been attacked. On Sunday, angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients, forcing medical staff to evacuate them as gunfire rang out.

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The discovery may finally explain the origins of several mysterious me…

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.

The $500 device has received a gag-inducing comparison.

The Ferrari Luce seems to be more aimed at regulatory compliance and China, putting a lot of pressure on the Jony Ive-designed EV.

reached a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. to supply chips for artificial intelligence data centers, according to people familiar with the matter, marking a key win for a company trying to expand from smartphone processors into AI infrastru…

(Bloomberg) -- Quantinuum Inc., a quantum computing company backed by Honeywell International Inc., is seeking to raise $1.05 billion in its US initial...

Raymond Zeng, a Meta software engineer, discusses his minimalist lifestyle, financial strategies, and plans to retire by age 30 in the Bay Area.

The Magnificent 7 are supposed to comprise the world’s hottest megacap companies. Their businesses will control the future. They are a mix of AI, search, the future of vehicles and robots, Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NAS…

With discounts on everything from laptops and headphones to smart home gadgets and TV, these lingering Memorial Day tech deals are the real thing.

The Education Department sent out a new wave of notices to student loan borrowers last week, warning them that they need to change repayment plans.

Some big industry players missed out on Trump administration investments.

Software is out, semis are in

(Bloomberg) -- A rally in Nokia Oyj is forcing investors to reconsider the company not as an old telecom-equipment stock, but as part of the infrastructure...

/PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced agreements to acquire three companies, Curevo Inc. (Curevo), LimmaTech Biologics AG...

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Apple’s major Siri overhaul will be unveiled soon, and a new report reveals exactly what to expect from Siri’s new UI design.

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Played against someone in Marvel Rivals you think is cheating? Their name might be on this list.

Suno users are abandoning Spotify, and real music for their own AI slop.

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NASA has filed a procurement notice announcing its intent to add six post-certification missions to SpaceX’s existing Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract. The agency said it would order up to three of those missions immediately upon adding them…

Apple iOS 26.5.1 is on its way, it seems, and is likely to land in a matter of days, while iOS 26.6 may hit first beta soon.

Microsoft released fixes for SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2026-45659 with a CVSS score of 8.8.

Only a week after launch, Forza Horizon 6 players already have a shared enemy in a bot driver that's been causing mayhem across the game.

Following the surprise announcement of support for Destiny 2 ending that shocked even Bungie staff, fans have started an online petition asking for Destiny 3.

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It's now also easier to share digital car keys across your devices.

Demis Hassabis warns we're not prepared for how quickly these systems are advancing.

Strauss Zelnick, the boss of Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two, has pushed back at the suggestion Red Dead Online was a missed opportunity, insisting it “has been immensely successful and long lasting.”

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

Code in recent Starlink firmware suggests that SpaceX might soon release a version of Starlink Mini with an integrated battery.

Microsoft starts expiring critical Secure Boot certificates next week — "the clock is ticking" on a billion PCs.

The vaccine, which hasn’t been tested on humans, would be the first capable of treating the deadly Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.

New research suggests the type of sitting matters for dementia risk, with mentally engaging activities linked to a significant reduction in risk.

If you're looking for a better outlook on life, you might want to try "practical optimism."

Turns out 6.4 to 7.8 hours of sleep a night might be ideal. Here are some tips on how to get the “just right” amount.

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A series of violent incidents at the state hospital raised questions about how to balance treatment with safety.

Occasional binge drinking can still stress your liver and impact your health over time. Learn how to drink smarter and better protect your liver.

Adding an avocado to your daily diet is a trendy health choice, but a new clinical trial shows it won't provide a quick fix for your brain health or protect against cognitive decline on its own.

An Arapahoe County man is recovering at home after testing positive for a variant of the hantavirus that is endemic to Colorado, county health authorities said Friday.

Laughter is the best medicine, according to one old adage. Now, new research suggests it boosts child learning and development.

A nationwide survey reveals that eating meals at irregular times is tied to a higher likelihood of depression. Dietary diversity can cushion this effect, while regularly skipping breakfast amplifies the connection between sporadic eating schedules and low moo…

The number that gets repeated in pop-science columns is the 2/20 split (that the brain is 2% of body weight but consumes 20% of energy) — a small organ, enormous appetite — and I think it’s fair to suggest that many people are led to believe that “thinking” i…

Officials responsible for leading US research on infectious disease threats have been barred from speaking directly with the World Health Organization – effectively shutting them out of global discussions on virus outbreaks, according to documents and multip…

Researchers reviewing decades of evidence conclude that alcohol plays a major role in disease and injury, affecting everything from the immune system to the brain and heart.

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Registered dietitians share five supplements that may harm the kidneys when taken in high doses or incorrectly.

Tardigrades survive vacuum, near-absolute-zero cold, lethal radiation, and 30-year droughts by drying themselves into a vitrified husk where metabolism stops entirely. The biology is now flying on space stations and crashed into the Moon.

In 1966, a young biologist named Lynn Margulis submitted a paper to a scientific journal. She submitted it to another. She worked through a list of journals — the most prestigious, the most relevant, the most likely — and over…

Cosmic rays were first discovered in 1912 by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess, who conducted a series of balloon flights into the upper atmosphere and demonstrated that the level of ionizing radiation in the air increased with altitude rather than decreasin…

Paleontologists in Canada say they have recovered a dinosaur tail vertebra from 75- to 80-million-year-old marine rocks on a small island off the coast of British Columbia, providing the clearest evidence yet that bird-like ornithomimosaurs once roamed the an…

In late 1971, after NASA approved the idea of sending a message aboard Pioneer 10, Carl Sagan was given just three weeks to prepare it. Working with astronomer Frank Drake and artist Linda Salzman Sagan, he helped create a six-by-nine-inch gold-anodized alumi…

A new Physical Review Letters study places constraints on the ER = EPR conjecture, showing that under the authors' assumptions, the conjecture would imply possible alterations to the hyperfine structure and effective charge of the hydrogen atom—effects that h…

The very premium air leak in the very best Russian part of the International Space Station is back! It may well be that, much like the Little Green Men in…

As the command module Columbia slipped behind the Moon on the afternoon of July 20, 1969 and lost radio contact with the world, Mission Control said over the open air: “Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins is experiencing during th…

For two decades, physicists have predicted the existence of a remarkable family of exotic molecules: giant atoms bound to ordinary atoms, with an electron so distant from its nucleus that it sculpts the pair into bizarre and diverse shapes.

On 7 December 1995, a small probe released by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft entered the atmosphere of Jupiter and transmitted data as it fell. It kept transmitting for about 58 minutes before rising heat and pressure ended the signal. In that time it returned the…

On November 17, 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 landed on the Sea of Rains, a vast basalt plain on the near side of the Moon. The lander deployed a remote-controlled rover called Lunokhod 1, the first robotic vehicle ever to operate on the surf…

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed fresh details about one of the most luminous known objects in the universe: the dust-shrouded quasar W2246−0526, seen just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. The paper outlining the results…

Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974, watching the dedication of a remodeled radio telescope.For just under three minutes it warbles at the sky. The audience around you has just hear…

There are a surprising number of experiments an amateur nuclear physicist can perform, from making a Geiger counter to fusing hydrogen atoms in a fusor. One project which we haven’t seen before is …