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The full moon shows up for a second time in March, on the 31st at 8:37 a.m. EDT -- a Blue "Paschal" Moon that sets the date of Easter.

Two launches are planned from both coasts of the US in the next four days as SpaceX ramps up on its long road to Mars and beyond.

Starting a new job can be fun and exciting. If you're lucky, you can keep everything you do within the confines of the office. But let's be realistic: You're probably going to be working from home a little bit, either pl...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have released a new report showing the effects of the opioid epidemic. It shows that the opioid epidemic is affecting every segment of the U.S. population.

In experiments that involved malaria patients, up to 97 percent of mosquitoes that fed on the participants' blood samples died. Here's how the researchers made human blood poisonous to these disease carriers.

To tackle some of today's most pressing man-made disasters, a team of researchers from the University of Southern California has now turned to the leaves of a floating fern, which have strange eggbeater-shaped protrusion...

Last summer, a study claiming that the gene-editing technique CRISPR might actually be dangerous whipped labs around the biotech world into a frenzy. Researchers found that when they used CRISPR to cure blindness by chan...

Technique could prevent overheating of laptops, mobile phones, and other electronics.

Martha Jones: It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race. The Doctor: Then don't step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you? Science fiction writers...

WIRED Columnist Virginia Heffernan on how a hacker flattered his way into taking over her Twitter account.

Alongside yesterday's big update to iOS 11.3, Apple also quietly pushed out an update for macOS High Sierra. Included in the new update (version 10.13.4) are a number of helpful, but not super exciting improvements, such...

Facebook is trying to bring all the wars it's fighting under one roof. At the "Fighting Abuse @Scale" conference later next month, the social network will host talks on combating fake news, online fraud, spam and abuse i...

It looks like we may have a winner in America's great internet space race. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just authorized SpaceX to launch its broadband satellite service, Starlink. That means Americans coul...

Want to be an outstanding portrait photographer? One of the first things you have to master is how to light up your subjects for the most flattering portraits. There are five basic portrait lighting setups that you have ...

U.S. telecom regulators the evening of March 29 accepted SpaceX's application to launch a megaconstellation of 4,425 broadband satellites, but denied the company's request to relax the deadline by which it must have its ...

Crypto billionaires-in-waiting, it's time to brace yourselves. A new research paper has found that of all the large ICOs that have tried to raise funds recently, a solid 81% were frauds, 6% were failed, 5% had gone dead,...

As more and more industrial robots come online, there's an ever greater risk of hackers gaining access to them and taking control of their abilities. In some cases that could mean damage to a product or manufacturing flo...

Bacteria in tap water can multiply when a faucet isn't used for a few days, such as when a house is vacant over a week's vacation, a new study by engineers has found. The study suggests a new method to show how microbial...

Russia has successfully tested its new ICBM missile, the country’s Ministry of Defense has claimed, a long range weapon that could fly more than 7,000 miles. Officially known as Sarmat, the intercontinental ballistic m...

Researchers reveal ultra slow waves of brain activity are linked directly to our state of consciousness.

Getting a new car is getting even easier these days. BMW, Lexus and Volvo have all started selling cars via subscription. The Care by Volvo program gives you an all-wheel drive XC40, insurance, routine maintenance, roads...

A Bitcoin mining hardware accelerator was revealed in a patent this week, showing Intel’s hand ahead of any product unveil. Over the past year, several major gaming-focused hardware manufacturers went both in and out o...