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A ransomware gang that infiltrated some Costa Rican government computer systems has upped its threat.

Clear skies in San Antonio provided an unobstructed view of the astronomical event.

New Zealand will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years.

A toxic cesspool.

Bernard Bigot, a French scientist leading a vast international effort to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be a viable source of energy, has died.

A U.S. official familiar with the project says South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Group is expected to announce its plans next week to build a massive electric vehicle plant near Savannah, Georgia.

Shares of Tesla and Twitter have tumbled this week.

In the 30 years that Ara Mirzaian has worked with orthotics, he has never had a patient like this: A baby giraffe.

Twitter fired two of its top managers Thursday, the latest sign of internal turmoil amid Tesla billionaire Elon Musk’s planned buyout of the company.

The federal government said Thursday that artificial intelligence technology used to screen new job candidates or monitor worker productivity can unfairly discriminate against people with disabilities, sending a warning to employers that the commonly used hiring tools could violate civil rights laws.

Scientists for the first time have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.

Australian government scientists say 91% of the Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth mass event in seven years.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms.

A Connecticut man has been convicted of murder in the 2015 killing of his wife in a case built partly on evidence provided by her Fitbit exercise activity tracker.

Testing for COVID-19 has plummeted globally, making it tougher for scientists to track the course of the pandemic and spot worrisome viral mutants as they emerge and spread.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter’s ban of former President Donald Trump if his deal to buy the social media company goes through.

Spain’s government has fired the director of the country’s top intelligence agency following the hacking of politicians’ cellphones.

President Joe Biden says 20 internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes.

A strong earthquake has struck off the east coast of Taiwan, shaking buildings in the capital, Taipei.

Humans don’t know what they’re missing in Miami, just under the surface of a busy shipping channel in the “cruise capital of the world.”.

Many climate scientists share a sense of optimism with professionals in other tough jobs like emergency room doctors and researchers who study Alzheimer’s Disease even as they chronicle a world losing its protective balance with the sun.

Many Ukrainian scientists are continuing their research and teaching even amid Russia's war.

Deforestation detected in the Brazilian Amazon reached a record high for the month of April.