Category: SCIENCE & TECH

LOS ANGELES—The earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures on a web of interconnected faults. They increased the strain on a …

President Donald Trump spoke to two NASA astronauts via video conference on Oct. 18 to praise them for their work and congratulate them for participating in the first all-women spacewalk. …

Deep-sea explorers scouring the world’s oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most …

We may have already discovered the essence of life on Mars 40 years ago, according to a former NASA scientist. Gilbert V. Levin, who was a principal investigator on a …

Harley-Davidson Inc said on Oct. 14 it has stopped production and deliveries of its first electric motorcycle after discovering a glitch in the final quality checks. The motorcycle maker said …

This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists who discovered how our cells regulate oxygen. What exactly does that mean and why is it important? We know …

Google unveiled a new Pixel smartphone and other hardware devices on Oct 15, all aimed at getting people even more dependent on its artificial-intelligence services. The Pixel 4 phone promises …

The second interstellar object ever spotted passing through the solar system is a comet that appears quite like those formed in our neighborhood of the cosmos, providing fresh evidence that …

Toyota Motor Corp unveiled a completely redesigned hydrogen-powered fuel cell sedan on Oct. 11 in its latest attempt to revive demand for the niche technology that it hopes will become …

Saturn is now being recognized as the “moon king” of our solar system, with astronomers spotting 20 more of them orbiting the giant ringed planet, bringing its total count to …