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Wildfires burning large swaths of Russia are generating so much smoke, they're visible from space, new images from NASA's Earth Observatory reveal.

Some physicists believe that our experience of the universe is just a big game of subatomic survival of the fittest.

"Patience is important for our subject," says math professor Wei Zhang. "You're always making infinitesimal progress."

A young planet still in the process of being formed has been identified using NASA's planet-hunting satellite, TESS. The planet, DS Tuc Ab, is nearly six times the size of the Earth and is similar to the gas giants in ou...

Gene editing is advancing at a faster pace than most of us can keep up with. One significant recent announcement was gene editing tool CRISPR's application to non-genetic diseases thanks to a new ability to edit single l...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Just when everyone had pretty much given up hope of getting lawmakers in our hyper-polarized nation's capital to agree on a new set of rules for self-driving cars, Congress appears to be...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It looks as though Apple's iPad lineup will get a bit bigger. The company already has five different models of the tablet, but according to new regulatory filings spotted by AppleInsider...

Selling items on the online open market of Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, or eBay is a challenge. Photographing your products at their best angle is critical. We give you essential tips on taking your best shot with y...

If you've been dying to install Android on your Nintendo Switch to turn it into an even more versatile gadget, then your wish is about to come true. We've seen all the teasers showing us that Android can operate on the c...

It's been 20 years since NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory launched to give us the sharpest-ever view of X-rays -- and the telescope is still working at the frontier of science, the agency said.

Including 5G's effects on your phone's cost, battery life and ability to deal with the heat.

Think that robots need to be the size of a dog or even a full-grown person to be exciting? Not so, as the fast-developing field of micro-robotics demonstrates. Here's what you need to know.

There's a flurry of show news from Amazon this weekend, but not all of it is positive. The company has cancelled its podcast-based Prime Video series Lore after two seasons. This wasn't a complete shock when the second s...

Today you can pay as little as $1 for up to 39 travel and language ebooks, including renowned Lonely Planet guides.

First Amazon, then Google, and now Apple have all confirmed that their devices are not only listening to you, but complete strangers may be reviewing the recordings. Thanks to Siri, Apple contractors routinely catch inti...

A customizable smartphone case provides a more tactile experience compared to touchscreens. Vidgets, created by Snap researchers and Columbia University students, translates input through mechanical widgets into onscreen...

Google's DeepMind and Waymo are teaming up to train the neural networks of self-driving cars. The partnership is using population-based training, which was created to speed up the learning process of computers playing St...

RED is countering the tales of its smartphone camera woes with something more exciting... if also cryptic. Company chief Jarred Land has teased an upcoming Komodo camera that doesn't appear to fit into the company's usua...

Aides to Donald Trump presented him with a document identical to one created by a top Washington lobbyist for cloud-computing giant Oracle, Kenneth Glueck, implying that competitor Amazon is only a favored contender for ...

Respawn will roll out a fix for the game-breaking Wraith glitch in the next patch for Apex Legends. In the meantime, the developer said that it will be handing out suspensions for those who keep exploiting the bug.

An Arkansas photographer captured a venomous copperhead snake devouring a cicada that had just emerged from its shell at Ozark National Forest earlier this month.

Study ties morality and empathy into a single construct.