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Lockheed Martin joins the discussion about cloud computing services in space
Lockheed Martin joins the discussion about cloud computing services in space

Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon's re:MARS conference in June suggests that Lockheed Martin is putting serious thought into the idea of space-based cloud services. The presentation, titled "Solving Earth's Biggest Problems With a Cloud in Space," features Yvonne Hodge, vice president and chief information officer at Lockheed Martin Space. Just because an executive is talking about the subject doesn't necessarily mean the aerospace giant has a plan in the works. But the concept would fit in nicely with Lockheed Martin's previously announced partnership with Amazon on AWS Ground… Read More

How Sonar Discovered a 16th Century Shipwreck by Accident
How Sonar Discovered a 16th Century Shipwreck by Accident

A team of scavengers discovered one of the oldest known shipwrecks, filled with tons of copper, entirely coincidentally.

Oklahoma City bombing
Oklahoma City bombing 'Survivor Tree' DNA to live on

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Science and technology are helping Oklahoma City to sustain the DNA - and the spirit - of a tree that has symbolized hope in the 24 years since the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history shook the city to its core.

Yes, there
Yes, there's a full moon tonight, but it won't be pink

If you're an aspiring skywatcher looking for a good reason to stay up past your bedtime and gaze into the cosmos, I have good news: Friday, April 19th will feature a full moon. However, if you're eagerly anticipating tonight's full moon because it carries the nickname "Pink Moon," I have a devastating truth to reveal: It won't be pink.Tonight's full moon -- or "Full Pink Moon" or "Pink Full Moon" or whatever you see it called around the web and beyond -- carries its nicknamed not based on its actual color, but rather because it's the first full moon of April, when lovely pink flowers known as ground phlox first begin to bloom. Yeah, it's kind of a bummer.The...

Attackers kill doctor at hospital in Congo
Attackers kill doctor at hospital in Congo's Ebola epicenter

BENI, Congo (AP) - Attackers stormed a hospital at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola outbreak and killed "a dear colleague," the head of the World Health Organization said Friday as he condemned the latest violence against health workers trying to contain the virus.

On Good Friday, pope hears harrowing stories of human trafficking
On Good Friday, pope hears harrowing stories of human trafficking

The meditations read out by speakers during the 14 "stations of the cross" which commemorate the last hours of Jesus' life were written by Sister Eugenia Bonetti, an 80-year-old Italian nun who has won multiple awards for her work with trafficked women and children. Francis has made defense

Bobcat survives deadly California wildfire, has 4 kittens
Bobcat survives deadly California wildfire, has 4 kittens

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) - A young bobcat that survived a massive and deadly wildfire in Southern California last year has given birth to four kittens, wildlife officials said Friday.

Venezuela
Venezuela's Guaido calls for 'largest march in history' to oust Maduro

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Friday called on supporters to take to the streets on May 1 for what he called "the largest march in the history" of the South American country to keep the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to leave power. Guaido, the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly who in January invoked the constitution to assume an interim presidency on the basis that Maduro's 2018 re-election was illegitimate, reiterated his call for the country's armed forces to take his side in the three-month power struggle. "They will need to listen to the people saying: enough," Guaido told a crowd gathered at a plaza in eastern Caracas, setting the date for the...

3-Year-Old Born With Backward Legs Walks for the First Time in Emotional Viral Video
3-Year-Old Born With Backward Legs Walks for the First Time in Emotional Viral Video

A "miracle" surgery changed this little girl's life. 

Judge Orders Florida To Start Treating Inmates Who Have Hepatitis C
Judge Orders Florida To Start Treating Inmates Who Have Hepatitis C

A judge has ordered the Florida Department of Corrections to begin treatingall inmates with hepatitis C ― something the state had reportedly not beendoing due to the

Mom Is Tirelessly Raising Awareness About Her Daughter's Rare, Life-Threatening Disease
Mom Is Tirelessly Raising Awareness About Her Daughter's Rare, Life-Threatening Disease

Seven-year-old Trinity underwent dozens of tests before being diagnosed with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), an ultra-rare disease believed to affect only one in every 50,000-100,000 children worldwide.

Top Gene-Sequencing Stocks for 2019
Top Gene-Sequencing Stocks for 2019

These next-generation companies are working on game-changing ways to obtain and profit from genetic insight.

Behold, the very bizarre Facebook auto-captions from NASA launch
Behold, the very bizarre Facebook auto-captions from NASA launch

"And we have lift off the guitarist G 11 mission." Huh? The closed captions on Facebook might need a bit of tweaking after a NASA video displayed some peculiar subtitles.The video in question is the Wednesday launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket, carrying a Cygnus cargo freighter destined for the International Space Station, done in conjunction with NASA. As Ars Technica pointed out, the captions leave a lot to be desired. Watch the original video below with the captions turned on. In case you missed it, here are a few of the more choice errors made in the captions. In this case, the caption should have read, "and we have lift off of the Antares NG-11 mission."...

Behold, the very bizarre Facebook auto-captions from NASA launch
Behold, the very bizarre Facebook auto-captions from NASA launch

"And we have lift off the guitarist G 11 mission." Huh?  The closed captions on Facebook might need a bit of tweaking after a NASA video displayed some peculiar subtitles. The video in question is the Wednesday launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket, carrying a Cygnus cargo freighter destined for the International Space Station, done in conjunction with NASA. As Ars Technica pointed out, the captions leave a lot to be desired.  Watch the original video below with the captions turned on.  In case you missed it, here are a few of the more choice errors made in the captions.  In this case, the caption should have read, "and we have lift off of the Antares NG-11...

10 Strange Arthritis Treatments That May Actually Work
10 Strange Arthritis Treatments That May Actually Work

Achy joints making you miserable? If your go-to arthritis treatment isn't providing relief, consider one of these alternative therapies.

Ebola worker killed at hospital in eastern DR Congo
Ebola worker killed at hospital in eastern DR Congo

A health worker fighting an Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was killed Friday in an attack on a hospital in the eastern city of Butembo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The attack is the latest in a string of assaults on teams grappling with a near nine-month-old Ebola outbreak that has claimed almost 850 lives. "The @WHO family lost a dear colleague in the hospital attack in Butembo, #DRC, today," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet.

Space as a business: What Hides Beyond the Rockets Launches
Space as a business: What Hides Beyond the Rockets Launches

Spaceships are no longer romantically surf the Universe but pragmatically sawing it in pieces. The "entrance ticket" to the solar system costs hundreds of millions.

Bieber, Ariana Grande join Lil Dicky for Earth Day video
Bieber, Ariana Grande join Lil Dicky for Earth Day video

NEW YORK (AP) - Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Leonardo DiCaprio have joined rapper-comedian Lil Dicky on a new song and video aimed at bringing awareness to climate change and Earth Day, which is Monday.

An 11-Year-Old Girl Died From an Allergic Reaction to Toothpaste-Now Her Mother Is Speaking Out
An 11-Year-Old Girl Died From an Allergic Reaction to Toothpaste-Now Her Mother Is Speaking Out

Here's what she wants all parents to know. 

8 Ways to Better Control Your Type 2 Diabetes
8 Ways to Better Control Your Type 2 Diabetes

You may be able to do more than you think.

5 Facts to Know That Could Help You Avoid Food Poisoning
5 Facts to Know That Could Help You Avoid Food Poisoning

Stay out of the Danger Zone.Read More...

Lil Dicky
Lil Dicky's New Song "Earth" Needs a Kids' Version ASAP

The rapper's new song "Earth" is a little too explicit for kids, but the message is critical. So can we please get a kids' version?!

The Scary Reason You Shouldn't Reuse Cooking Oil
The Scary Reason You Shouldn't Reuse Cooking Oil

A recent study on the effects of reheated cooking oil on the body draws an alarming conclusion. You may never look at fast food French fries the same way again.

Lil Dicky drops the music video of his environmental anthem, "Earth"
Lil Dicky drops the music video of his environmental anthem, "Earth"

The American comedian-rapper released the song and the accompanying animated video on Friday -- just three days before Earth Day. Produced by Benny Blanco and Cashmere, "Earth" is a desperate call to save the environment, advocating for climate-change action. This call to action features the vocals of more than 30 A-list artists, including Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sia, Wiz Khalifa and Ed Sheeran.

This is the last photo Israel
This is the last photo Israel's Beresheet lunar lander captured before it was smashed into oblivion

Last week's attempted lunar lander by SpaceIL's Beresheet spacecraft didn't quite go as planned. Actually, that's putting it mildly; it totally crashed. Nevertheless, the privately funded mission accomplished a number of firsts, and returned some lovely images from its descent as an added bonus.First we were treated to a view from high above the lunar surface -- a selfie of sorts -- and then, shortly after the crash, a second image emerged that appeared to be the last thing that the lander saw and sent back to Earth before it died.Now there's an entirely new wrinkle, with SpaceIL revealing that the lander snapped another picture that nobody had seen before, and this is the actual last...

French climate activists in sit-in to denounce
French climate activists in sit-in to denounce 'republic of polluters'

Hundreds of French activists on Friday staged a sit-in outside top energy companies in Paris, describing France as the "republic of polluters", as part of a international civil disobedience campaign on climate change. Some two thousand environmental activists in total assembled at the La Defense business district in a bid to block access to to the headquarters of energy giant Total, electricity firm EDF as well as bank Societe Generale and France's Ministry for Ecological Transition.

'Not here for selfies', activist Greta tells political world

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg rebuked the ruling classes Friday at a demonstration in Italy, insisting youths fighting for climate justice were not fodder for self-complacent selfies. "In the last six months, millions of school children, not least in Italy, have been school striking for

Chikungunya Virus Is the Mosquito-Transmitted Disease You Probably Don't Know About-but Should
Chikungunya Virus Is the Mosquito-Transmitted Disease You Probably Don't Know About-but Should

You might encounter the virus while traveling.

Someone Is Trying To Sell a Baby T. Rex Skeleton on eBay for $2.95 Million
Someone Is Trying To Sell a Baby T. Rex Skeleton on eBay for $2.95 Million

And paleontologists aren't happy about it.

9 Things You Think Could Be Arthritis-But Aren't
9 Things You Think Could Be Arthritis-But Aren't

Your joints are achy, stiff, and swollen. Run-of-the-mill arthritis might be to blame. But so could these other lookalike conditions.

Doctors Brushed Off My Symptoms Until I Was Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer at 24
Doctors Brushed Off My Symptoms Until I Was Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer at 24

After years of unexplained pain, Amanda Kabbabe discovered she had a melon-size tumor.

Sonar Anomaly Leads to Discovery of 500-Year-Old Shipwreck in North Sea
Sonar Anomaly Leads to Discovery of 500-Year-Old Shipwreck in North Sea

Salvagers looking for steel shipping containers at the bottom of the North Sea have discovered a 500-year-old Dutch shipwreck holding a cargo of tons of copper.The searchers were using ship-borne sonar to find steel containers that fell from the ship MSC Zoe during a storm in January, when they spotted

Bone which increases arthritis risk on the rise, scientists find, as better nutrition could be to blame
Bone which increases arthritis risk on the rise, scientists find, as better nutrition could be to blame

A bone which increases the risk of arthritis is increasingly prevalent among humans, scientists have found, as they reveal better nutrition could be to blame. The fabella, a small bone in the knee once lost to human evolution, has made a surprising resurgence over the last century. The bone, which linked

9 Spectacular Hotels Designed by the World
9 Spectacular Hotels Designed by the World's Most Famous Architects

Sleep with a starchitect in these architectural marvels.

Is there an ideal time to work out?
Is there an ideal time to work out?

Two studies published in Cell Metabolism confirm the impact of our sleep cycle on athletic performance. "It's quite well known that almost every aspect of our physiology and metabolism is dictated by the circadian clock. Directed by Paolo Sassone-Corsi, of UC Irvine's Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism, the first study used mice on treadmills to observe the mechanisms of processes like glycolysis (the metabolization of sugars into energy) and the oxidation of lipids (the burning of fat).

Teen climate activist: I enjoy making a difference
Teen climate activist: I enjoy making a difference

ROME (AP) - Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has told a rally of several thousand young people in Rome's Piazza del Popolo they should aim that when they are older they can say they did everything they could to help the climate.

Aircraft Carrier Alliance: Will Britain Build India a New Queen Elizabeth-Class Carrier?
Aircraft Carrier Alliance: Will Britain Build India a New Queen Elizabeth-Class Carrier?

Will India's next aircraft carrier be a British design?British defense contractor BAE Systems is offering a Queen Elizabeth-class design as a contender for India's third aircraft carrier, which will be built in India."BAE Systems has begun discussions with India regarding the potential for basing development of the second Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-2) project on the successful Queen Elizabeth Class design," said a BAE statement. "The design is adaptable to offer either ski jump or catapult launch and can be modified to meet Indian Navy and local industry requirements."India currently operates one aircraft carrier, the 45,000-ton Vikramaditya, which is actually the former Soviet...

Easy Bruising: Why Does It Happen
Easy Bruising: Why Does It Happen

Easy bruising-Get the facts about what causes it and when it's a sign of a problem.

Private cargo ship brings Easter feast to the space station
Private cargo ship brings Easter feast to the space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A private cargo ship brought the makings of an Easter feast to the International Space Station on Friday, along with mice and little flying robots.

U.S. refiners planning major plant overhauls in second quarter
U.S. refiners planning major plant overhauls in second quarter

U.S. oil refiners are planning a heavy slate of plant overhauls in the second quarter, with total production this month off 8.5 percent compared with the start of the year, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Early spring and winter traditionally are heavy periods for

Car smashes into pedestrians in Tokyo, killing 2 on bicycle
Car smashes into pedestrians in Tokyo, killing 2 on bicycle

TOKYO (AP) - A car driven by an 87-year-old man smashed into pedestrians at a Tokyo intersection on Friday, killing a woman and a girl on a bicycle and overturning a garbage truck, Japanese police said. Eight people were reportedly injured.

Weeping teenage climate activists in peaceful protest near London
Weeping teenage climate activists in peaceful protest near London's Heathrow

Teenage protesters staged an emotional protest at political inaction on climate change near London's Heathrow Airport on Friday, a further day of actions that have caused transport snarl-ups in the British capital. The Extinction Rebellion group of climate-change campaigners stood weeping and singing

Lil Dicky Drops Star-Studded Music Video Featuring Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus
Lil Dicky Drops Star-Studded Music Video Featuring Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus

Lil Dicky Drops Star-Studded Music Video Featuring Justin Bieber

Groundbreaking Indian Ocean science mission reaches an end
Groundbreaking Indian Ocean science mission reaches an end

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) - The British-led Nekton scientific mission on Thursday completed a seven-week expedition in the Indian Ocean aimed at documenting changes beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades.

Nintendo shares jump 17 percent after Tencent wins key China Switch sales approval
Nintendo shares jump 17 percent after Tencent wins key China Switch sales approval

Nintendo's U.S.-listed shares rose 12 percent overnight after the Chinese province of Guangdong allowed Tencent to distribute the Switch console with a test version of the "New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe" game. It remains unknown when the console may go on sale in China, with games needing

U.S. launches four-state study to find ways to reduce opioid overdose deaths
U.S. launches four-state study to find ways to reduce opioid overdose deaths

The National Institutes of Health will award grants to research sites in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said at a news conference to unveil the plan. Prescription opioid pain treatments and drugs like heroin and the more potent fentanyl were responsible

If You Get a Pounding Headache Every Month Like Clockwork, You Need to Read This
If You Get a Pounding Headache Every Month Like Clockwork, You Need to Read This

It's bad enough that once a month women have to deal with unpleasant period symptoms like cramps, mood swings, and bloating, but if you find that your head begins to pound just before you start - or shortly after - your hormones are probably to blame for that, too. "Most women who suffer from

Doctors Figure Out One Possible Cause of the Mysterious AFM Illness Among Kids
Doctors Figure Out One Possible Cause of the Mysterious AFM Illness Among Kids

ShutterstockFederal researchers have confirmed for the first time a frightening polio-like condition that strikes children can be caused by a respiratory infection called enterovirus D68-a step toward unraveling the mystery of the paralyzing illness.Scientists have long suspected a link between enterovirus

Albany Law, SUNY Poly Launch Interdisciplinary
Albany Law, SUNY Poly Launch Interdisciplinary 'Innovation Clinic' to Commercialize Tech

With a new partnership, law and engineering students at the New York-based colleges will work in tandem to take technology from the lab to the marketplace.

Exclusive: Venezuela skirts U.S. sanctions by funneling oil sales via Russia
Exclusive: Venezuela skirts U.S. sanctions by funneling oil sales via Russia

President Nicolas Maduro is funneling cashflow from Venezuelan oil sales through Russian state energy giant Rosneft as he seeks to evade U.S. sanctions designed to oust him from power, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters. The sales are the latest sign of the growing dependence of

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