Science

Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce have launched a campaign for restrictions on data sharing between hospitals to be dropped.

Various tech and business analysts are calling out Elon Musk on just how “secured” his funding for a potential deal to take Tesla private again actually is.

Hollywood celebrities ripped into the Trump administration’s plans to create a Space Force program, decrying it as everything from a waste of money to a distraction from the Mueller investigation. 

The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has contracted with Advanced Bioscience Resource (ABR) –  a biomedical company referred for federal criminal investigation – to provide “fresh” aborted baby tissue to engineer humanized mice for drug experimentation.

A rogue planet has been discovered outside of our solar system, and the American Astronomical Society published a report last week detailing the nature of this very hot, very gassy celestial vagabond.

One of the more outrageous attempts to justify abortion comes from those who assert that the intentional killing of new human lives is the moral equivalent of the death of sperm cells or egg cells.

A number of major genomic testing companies have agreed to a new set of guidelines on the sharing of DNA with law enforcement and other third parties.

President Trump on Saturday declared a California emergency after the Carr Fire that became a tornado and roared into Redding killing 2 firefighters, burning 80,906 acres, causing 38,000 evacuations and threatening another 4,978 structures.

A team of scientists have discovered a 12.5-mile-wide lake beneath the surface of Mars’ southern polar ice cap.

Two young Venezuelan engineers are using their ingenuity to convert the country’s large amounts of plastic waste into car parts.  

The rotary actuated dodecahedron, or RAD, gently embraces the world’s most fragile marine bodies.

An 11-million ton iceberg sitting off the coast of a Greenland Village is worrying villagers, who say the iceberg could break off and threaten the remote village at a moment’s notice.

Researchers from Australia National University have discovered the oldest colors on record — 1.1 billion-year-old bright pink pigments extracted from rocks beneath the Sahara desert.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on Southern California’s heat wave .

Iran has reopened a “major” nuclear plant that has been inactive for the past nine years, the country’s atomic energy agency (AEOI) announced on Wednesday.

Public DNA profiles are being used to lead police investigators to suspected murderers from “cold cases,” with at least four men arrested since April, according to a report.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said Tuesday Attorney General Jeff Sessions is discussing with Congress the use of DNA tests at the border to confirm biological relationships between immigrant children and their parents.

Scientists have discovered a miracle solution to the global warming problem — or so the Atlantic wants to persuade us.

NASA is reportedly in talks with a number of companies to turn the International Space Station into a commercial space laboratory.

Newcastle University scientists have created the first 3D-printed human corneas using a combination of human cells, alginate, and collagen, potentially creating an “unlimited supply” of corneas to treat blindness for millions of people.

The European Commission has proposed a ban on a number of plastic items, including cutlery, straws, plates, stirrers, and cotton swabs.

London hospitals will soon replace doctors and nurses with artificial intelligence for various medical tasks, according to a report.

An Australian professor has been fired for telling the truth about the Great Barrier Reef: that it’s not being destroyed by man-made climate change and that the “science” claiming otherwise is bunk.

40 percent of Americans and 18 percent of Brits would eat lab-grown meat, according to a report.

Asteroid 2010 WC9 will pass even closer to the Earth than the moon on Tuesday — closer than it has been in 300 years.

NASA’s aircraft is roughly the size of a softball and weighs less than four pounds. It will make five autonomous flights above the surface of Mars in 2021.

Climate scientists are giving science a bad name, says a leading atmospheric physicist in an essay on the global warming debate.

A group of international scientists published a study on Thursday concluding that Mount Mantap, the location of North Korea’s nuclear test site, has sunk at least half a meter (1.6 feet) and widened by 3.5 meters (11.4 feet) in the aftermath of the nation’s latest nuclear test in September.

In his annual Founders’ Letter, the Alphabet president stress the need for “thoughtfulness and responsibility” in the way we approach new technology.

The Brave Robotics engineers have created a real-life Transformer that can even carry people inside.

NASA will have to pay more money for less cargo delivery to the International Space Station in the 2020’s due to price increases from SpaceX.

The brains of hundreds of pigs reportedly survived for up to 36 hours after they were decapitated in an experiment that lays the foundation for the preservation of human minds beyond their physical limitations.

NASA’s new Administrator Jim Bridenstine is a climate change skeptic – and naturally the usual suspects are furious.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) tried to block the typically less political procedural confirmation vote for NASA administrator Wednesday, only to flip his vote when it became clear the nomination would otherwise fail.

Robotics manufacturers and their affiliates are campaigning for a limited “electronic personality” to be granted to their high-tech automatons, but experts around the world are pushing back.