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If the Hubble Space Telescope set the standard for what a jaw-dropping space picture should look like, then the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, launched 20 years ago this week, perfected it.

Apple may ditch the butterfly mechanism keyboard on its laptops sooner than expected. The rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro -- predicted to ship this year -- may arrive with a scissor mechanism instead of the long-troubled but...

(American Chemical Society) Your body is a delicately balanced chemical system, and if you take too much of a drug you destroy that balance. That's what happens when you overdose. This week on Reactions, learn how to spo...

If you've been taking aspirin every day to lower your risk of heart attack, despite not having an existing history of heart problems, a new Harvard study suggests you're not doing yourself any favors. In fact, it would s...

Apple TV+ will be getting some fresh competition in the streaming wars courtesy of Comcast come April of next year. Comcast revealed the launch date of its upcoming NBCUniversal streaming service during its latest earnin...

Didi Chuxing announced today that it has received new investment totaling $600 million from Toyota Motor Corporation. As part of the deal, the two companies will also set up a joint venture with GAC Toyota Motor to provi...

(Lancaster University) A call for a change in the law to class men, forced to have sex with women, as rape victims has been made in a new study by Lancaster University researchers published today.Men have added their voi...

Electric car giant Tesla had its stock plunge over 10 percent in after-hours trading after posting a $408 million loss in Q2 2019--despite shipping record numbers of cars, CNBC reported on Wednesday.

SoftBank Group Corp is expected to announce a $40 billion investment in its new technology fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

If ever there was a phone that could have revolutionized the smartphone business in the post-iPhone era, it's the Hydrogen One. Made by high-tech camera company RED, the Hydrogen One turned out to be a huge disappointmen...

SpaceX fired up its Starhopper test vehicle for its biggest hop yet Wednesday (July 24), but the rocket prototype aborted the launch just seconds into the attempt.

Samsung’s first attempt at a commercial foldable phone was a failure even before it launched but it’s still being remade into a hopefully better version. It’s already more than two months late but it is still comin...

The agency is looking into antitrust concerns.

"We're sailing on sunlight!" the Planetary Society declared after opening the LightSail 2 sail.

Fresh from topping up its Series C with a whopping $60 million, business travel booking platform TravelPerk is launching a new product it hopes will make customers keep singing its praises by shaving further friction off...

New research could be key to our understanding of how the aging process works. The findings potentially pave the way for better cancer treatments and revolutionary new drugs that could vastly improve human health in the ...

Oxytocin is referred to as the love hormone and is important in the regulation of social and maternal behavior. The oxytocin system in the brain may be key to new treatments for many mental health disorders including pos...

Human artificial chromosomes (HACs) could be useful tools for both understanding how mammalian chromosomes function and creating synthetic biological systems, but for the last 20 years, they have been limited by an ineff...

A surprising new discovery in mouse models reveals a previously unknown role for pain in immunity and has implications for treating autoimmune diseases.

HIV-infected cells release vesicles that contain a viral protein called Nef, impairing cholesterol metabolism and triggering inflammation in uninfected bystander cells, according to a new study.

In a new study, researchers slowed mutant fruit flies' metabolic rates by 50%, and the expected detrimental effects of many mutations never manifested. After experimentally testing fruit flies' many different genetic mut...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently developed an Autocidal Gravid Ovitrap (AGP trap) that attracts and captures female mosquitoes looking for a site to lay eggs. Now, researchers report that ...