World Death Toll Rises to 17 in Mumbai Building Collapse

Seventeen people are now confirmed dead in Tuesday's collapse of a multi-story residential building in Mumbai, India. Search and rescue crews uncovered more bodies in the wreckage during a...

World In Germany, Merkel welcomed hundreds of thousands of...

Increasingly, migrants are being given less robust protection, leaving families divided.

World Australian 'Solo Man' faces drugs charges in Cambodia

Related Story: Australian arrested in Phuket after hotel drug raid The Australian actor who played the "Solo Man" in the 1980s soft drink...

World Fairy Tales Overcome Nightmares at South Korea's...

A half-hour's drive north of Seoul, along a highway lined with barbed wire, lie two shopping malls the size of several football stadiums, a stone's throw from the world's most militarized border....

World Outlook for Ramallah Clouded by Tensions, Restrictions

Efforts by the West Bank city of Ramallah to defend itself better from threats such as climate change and urbanization are being challenged by political tensions and dependence on Israel, said a...

World Human rights groups decry Philippine president's threat...

Human rights groups asked the Philippine president Wednesday to retract a threat to order airstrikes against tribal schools he accused of teaching students to become communist...

Science New Research Provides Clearest Evidence Yet of Majorana...

New research from UCLA provides the clearest evidence yet of the long-sought Majorana particle and could provide the vehicle for carrying ‘qubits’ of data in... The post New Research...

Science NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Gets a Better View of Saturn’s...

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft captured this new image of Saturn’s rings on April 10th at a distance of 1.1 million kilometers. Although the rings lack the... The post NASA’s...

Science NEOWISE Reveals Size Distributions of Comet Populations

Using NEOWISE data from the four-band and three-band cryogenic phases of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, astronomers reveal that large, distant comets are more... The post...

Science Cassini Continues to Reveal Surprises During Its Grand...

The Cassini Spacecraft continues to make its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, revealing surprising details about the planet. Scientists are... The post...

Science Watching the Aurora From Orbit

Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA shared photos and time-lapse video of a glowing green aurora seen from his vantage point 250 miles up, aboard the International Space Station....

Science How to Defuse Offensive Speech - Facts So Romantic

The claim that speech can be violence is dangerous, it is argued, because it exacerbates the emotional vulnerability that’s already rampant in the “Internet generation,” of which today’s...

Technology Make A Bit Of Cloth With This 3D Printable Loom

When the hackspace where this is being written created their textile room, a member who had previously been known only for her other work unexpectedly revealed herself to be a weaver, and offered...

Technology Smart Gun Beaten by Dumb Magnets

[Plore], a hacker with an interest in safe cracking, read a vehemently anti-smart-gun thread in 2015. With the words “Could you imagine what the guys at DEF CON could do with this?” [Plore] knew...

Technology Hackaday Prize Entry: USB Packet Snooping

Sometimes you run into a few problems when developing your own hardware, and to solve these problems you have to build your own tools. This is exactly how [KC Lee]’s USB Packet Snooper was...

Technology Apple Plans to Build Three 'Big' Factories in the United...

Apple is planning to build three "big, big, big" manufacturing plants in the United States, Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly told U.S. President Donald Trump. The news was shared by Trump in an...

Technology Upcoming USB 3.2 Specification Will Double Data Rates...

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group, comprising Apple, HP, Intel, Microsoft, and other companies, today introduced an upcoming USB 3.2 specification, which will eventually replace the existing USB 3.1...

Technology Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS High Sierra to Public...

Apple today seeded the third public beta of an upcoming macOS High Sierra update to public beta testers, two weeks after releasing the second public beta . The third public beta of macOS High...

Green House spending package contains big cuts to clean energy,...

“Minibus” includes dangerous public health and environmental policy riders, group says. A House spending package for fiscal year 2018 includes major cuts to federal spending on renewable energy...

Green Al Gore on Trump: ‘Despair is just another form of denial’

The former vice president sat down with ThinkProgress to discuss reason, refugees, and the future of American democracy. Al Gore during a 2007 book signing. “The Assault on Reason” was...

Green Lamar Smith’s dangerous new climate science denial

Smith saw climate change in the Arctic, and came back with a very optimistic view of the problem. CREDIT: AP Photo/Zach Gibson In mid-May, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), along with at least eight...

Green This Pennsylvania town is rewriting the law to stop...

“We thought they would protect us. They wouldn’t.” Melissa Troutman, one of the directors of the forthcoming documentary Invisible Hand , next to the site of Grant Township’s public meetings....

Green Senate confirms ‘walking conflict of interest’ to top...

The former lobbyist may be unable to perform his duties as deputy secretary due to conflicts. CREDIT: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee The Senate voted 53–43 on Monday to confirm...

Green Scott Pruitt spent $12,000 in taxpayer money to travel...

Pruitt spent 43 days in a three-month period traveling back home to Oklahoma. CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt spent nearly...

Politics This voting reform solves 2 of America’s biggest...

“Proportional” voting would reduce party polarization and the number of wasted votes. This piece was first published April. In June, Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) introduced the Fair...

Politics Debunking What the Health, the buzzy new documentary that...

The film on Netflix mischaracterizes what we know about food and disease. There’s a sensational new documentary out on Netflix that seems to have a lot of people talking about going...

Politics Senate dives into health-care debate despite deep...

By Sean Sullivan, Juliet Eilperin, Kelsey Snell , The Washington Post WASHINGTON – The Senate embarked on a freewheeling process to rewrite the Affordable Care Act on...

Politics McCain said he wouldn’t vote for the Senate health care...

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) returned to Washington DC mid-recovery from brain surgery with an impassioned speech about bipartisanship and a striking declaration that he would not support the...

Politics DOJ nominee grilled over relationship with Alfa Bank

President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Justice Department's criminal division told a Senate panel at his confirmation hearing Tuesday that if confirmed he would recuse himself for at least...

Politics Ken Buck says on CNN that Donald Trump “should work...

Colorado Congressman Ken Buck said Tuesday in a CNN interview that President Donald Trump “has things to work out” with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and that the two...

Religion Christian Leader: I “Rebuked” Death and Resurrected a...

Mary Colbert, a "Christian leader" with ties to Donald Trump, recently told a story about how she and her husband met a comatose woman in a hospital and brought her back to life!There's no...

Religion Ark Encounter: The Media is Lying in All Those Stories...

Press releases are supposed to clear up confusion regarding a story.But this statement by the Creationists at Answers in Genesis only confirms what reporters and critics have been saying about them...

Religion TX Man Blames Devil After Getting Caught, Without Pants,...

When the victim's mother offered to pray with the man, he said the devil had disappeared.

Religion Justin Bieber Canceled His World Tour So He Could Spend...

If your bad boy/sex symbol reputation is fading away, you might as well reinvent yourself as a wholesome Christian heartthrob.

Religion Miss Teen USA Contestant, a “Devout Christian,” Clearly...

If you're bragging to reporters about your devout Christian faith, it might help to cover up the tattoo that violates a Bible verse.

Religion FFRF raises alarm in Ill. over parking discrimination

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is warning an Illinois city against giving unconstitutional parking privileges to a religious organization during an upcoming event. The city of...