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Scientist and inventor best known for presenting BBC2's The Great Egg Race Heinz Wolff, who has died aged 89, was one of a long line of distinguished British scientists who became even more distinguished television prese...

Bethany Lynn Stephens had been gone for about a day since she left to walk her dogs. So her father went out to look for her at the area she frequented. There, authorities say, he found her two dogs, guarding what he firs...

Two female couples tied the knot in Australia's first same-sex weddings under new legislation allowing gay marriages. January 9 had been expected to be the first possible date for same-sex …

Roy Moore's horse's name is Sassy--and the horse has a Twitter account now.

Hilda Hernandez, sister of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and five other people were killed in a helicopter crash Saturday on a mountain near the Honduran capital. Hernandez, 51, was an …

NBC News reported today that the network paid separation compensation to a female employee in 1999 who accused Chris Matthews of making inappropriate jokes and comments about her in front of other employees. Both Matthew...

The Trump administration has informed multiple divisions within the Department of Health and Human Services that they should avoid using certain words or phrases in official documents being drafted for next year's budget...

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With great image quality, rich character, and professional build quality, the M. Zuiko F1.2 Pro lenses impress. But can the Micro Four Thirds format keep up? The post Olympus M. Zuiko F1.2 Pro lenses prove there's life l...

Thora Birch and Chris Klein star in the romantic comedy The Competition about a bet to see if people in a long term relationship would cheat if giv...

There's a new racetrack in the works in the Czech Republic, but don't expect to see just any vehicle take to the new loop. Rather, this test track is made specifically for the testing of self-driving and electric cars fr...

Protip for Mozilla and the USA Network: In the future when you're plotting a tie-in for a show about vigilante hackers, maybe don't actually compromise people's privacy. Some Firefox users were none too thrilled to disco...

Manami Matsumae is most closely associated with a tiny blue robot. The Tokyo-based composer is best known for her work on the Mega Man series, having crafted the sound of the Blue Bomber's original outing, and later cont...

Pope Francis has blown out his birthday candle on an extra-long pizza at the Vatican to the delight of children. Francis, who turned 81 on Sunday, then told the children, …

Colin Stokes writes a humorous list of ways to break it to the owner of a holiday-market stall that you want to leave without buying anything.

An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics.

Check out our roundup of the best new crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk! The post Awesome tech you can't buy yet: Tiny ph...

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A mysterious add-on named Looking Glass 1.0.3 started appearing in Mozilla Firefox browsers earlier this week. Users thought they were hacked, but it was just a marketing stunt for the 'Mr. Robot' TV show.

Retail conglomerate Alibaba will soon open two huge vending machines filled with cars in China, where you can pick the car you want, schedule a test drive, and even purchase the vehicle using only the online app. The pos...

Firefighters battling the Thomas Fire will face more challenges Saturday with the return of powerful winds as the blaze marks a grim milestone in size.

Task force that investigated sightings of unidentified flying objects ran from 2007 to 2012 with annual budget of $22m The Pentagon has acknowledged that it ran a secret UFO investigation program for five years, wrapping...