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There is much about the placenta that scientists are just beginning to discover.

Two-thirds of the length of the Great Barrier Reef is suffering from bleaching, a condition likely to cause mass coral die-offs.

More than 10 years after it first launched, Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows Vista. Today is the final day for Windows Vista extended support, which means that the divisive operating system is well and ...

Google really can’t make up its mind when it comes to its communication apps and services. From Google Talk to Hangouts to the newly renamed Android Messaging, Google changes names, features, and apps as regularly as t...

Let's say you're YouTube star PewDiePie, aka Felix Kjellberg. You're facing an exodus of advertisers that could hurt your bottom line, and it doesn't help that you shot yourself in the foot by making tasteless jokes. How...

Apple has been orchestrating a large-scale attack against chipmaker Qualcomm's licensing business for years, Qualcomm alleged.

Gene-edited seedless tomatoes don't need pollinating to produce fruit - which could come in useful at a time when bees are on the decline

Scientists have unraveled a knotty problem: the forces behind the accidental untying of your shoelaces.

Australian government researchers are equipping drones with cameras and sonar so they can explore parts of old mines that are unsafe for people to visit

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) In a recent study, a team of researchers from Argonne, the University of Chicago and MIT has developed a new way to create some of the world's thinnest wires, using a process that could ...

Google probably competes with the NSA for first place in knowing a lot about basically everyone. That's understandable given the large number of useful services it offers for free, as the data it collects is then used to...

'Open Bionics' is creating beautiful prosthetics for amputees. The bionic arms make these amputees look superhuman.  Not only are these works of art, they're also affordable costing a fraction of the price as traditiona...

You've all seen Dr. Strangelove, which means I'm pretty sure you understand the general idea behind a doomsday device: if you destroy us, we destroy you, no matter what. The concept of an automatic system that guarantees...

Every once in a while our Sun gives off a tremendous belch of high energy particles. Called a coronal mass ejection (CME), these episodes can vary in intensity, but they can produce bursts of electrical charge when they ...

By Chris Brantner, guest blogger Catching every game of the NHL playoffs can seem slightly complicated — especially for cord cutters. Coverage is shared across multiple networks, including NBC, NBCSN, USA, CNBC and NHL...

What distinguishes Elon Musk's reputation as an entrepreneur is that any venture he takes on comes from a bold and inspiring vision for the future of our species. Not long ago, Musk announced a new company, Neuralink, wi...

Name an article of clothing, and some company has probably crammed a fitness tracker into it. We've seen connected shirts, shoes and even bras. But most of these focus on the time you spend active -- steps walked, distan...

NASA will hold a press conference on Thursday, starting at 2 PM ET, at which it will discuss new discoveries related to ocean worlds found within our solar system. The fresh findings come from the Cassini spacecraft, whi...

A team of researchers at New York University and Michigan State University has developed a set of fake fingerprints that mimic real ones, and can break into phones with reasonable consistency. The post Turns out, it’s ...

According to a team of cybersecurity experts at Newcastle University, the way you tilt your phone could be used by hackers to break into your device.

The arrest of Peter Yuryevich Levashov notches another win for the FBI's top cyber talent. The post How the FBI Took Down Russia's Spam King---And His Massive Botnet appeared first on WIRED.

We thought dark energy was behind the accelerated expansion of the universe to its cold, dark end state, but it might be a supporting actor in a quantum plot