(Reuters) – U.S. forces using a new Raytheon Co interceptor missile downed another missile in space in a high-stakes test of a shield built to thwart growing capabilities of countries like North Korea and Iran....
A smartphone application, enabling people in the middle of riots to find safety, has been shown off at the TEDGlobal event in Edinburgh. The app has been developed by Salvatore Iaconesi, a newly created...
TUESDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) — Blood supplies have dropped to dangerously low levels in the United States, according to the American Red Cross. Although the group must collect more than 17,000 pints of blood every...
Rates of sea level rise are increasing three-to-four times faster along portions of the U.S. Atlantic Coast than globally, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report published in Nature Climate Change. Since about...
The H5N1 bird flu virus could change into a form able to spread rapidly between humans, scientists have warned. Researchers have identified five genetic changes that could allow the virus to start a deadly...
Up until recently there were robots that could smell, taste, see and hear. Now, thanks to researchers at USC, robots will be able to feel too. One of the researchers explains. “So the BioTac is a...
(multimedia) Mosquitoes, ants, water bugs, ticks and bees. They are coming out all over the U.S. with a vengeance this summer according to bug experts. The city of New Orleans has reported an elevated...
An active sunspot is amping up the sun’s activity, and has already unleashed two strong solar flares that triggered weekendgeomagnetic storms on Earth, NASA officials say. The M-class solar flares set off two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the sun on last Wednesday...
Search engine company has said there has been a troubling increase in requests to remove political content from the internet. There has been an alarming rise in the number of times governments attempted to...
There are moves to rewrite contentious water-sharing agreements that are becoming a major source of friction in the Middle East as water supplies shrink BAGHDAD, June 14 (UPI) — Amid the profound political changes sweeping...
