WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes a job is too dirty, dangerous or downright impossible for a human to tackle. That’s often when engineers build a machine to take on the task. Finalists at this year’s Broadcom

High school students who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual are more likely to report planning or attempting suicide compared with their heterosexual peers, a new study finds. In a nationwide survey

Science came out of the lab and touched people’s lives in some awe-inspiring and alarming ways in 2017. Science enthusiasts gathered to celebrate a total solar eclipse, but also to march on behalf of

An itinerant interstellar asteroid may actually be a comet in disguise. Known as ‘Oumuamua, the object was detected in October and is the first visitor from another star spotted touring our solar system

A type of spiraling wave has been busted for disorderly conduct. Spiral waves are waves that ripple outward in a swirl. Now scientists from Germany and the United States have created a new type of spiral

Globs of an inflammation protein beckon an Alzheimer’s protein and cause it to accumulate in the brain, a study in mice finds. The results, described in the Dec. 21/28 Nature, add new details to the

The hardy souls who manage to push shorts season into December might feel some kinship with the thirteen-lined ground squirrel. The critter hibernates all winter, but even when awake, it’s less sensitive

Over the past week, my little girls have seen Santa in real life at least three times (though only one encounter was close enough to whisper “yo-yo” in his ear). You’d think that this Santa saturation

NASA’s next mission will go where some spacecraft have gone before. The two finalists in the agency’s selection process will return to either Saturn’s moon Titan or comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, NASA

Robots are on their way to passing gym class. The design of a new life-size bot named Kengoro closely resembles the anatomy of a teenage boy in body proportion, skeletal and muscular structure, and joint

Some reports from 2017 hint at potentially big discoveries — if the research holds up to additional scientific scrutiny. Under pressure Putting the squeeze on hydrogen gas turned it into a long-elusive

The neutron star collision heard and seen around the world has failed to fade. That lingering glow could mean that a jet of bright matter created in the crash has diffused into a glowing, billowy cocoon

Life expectancy in the United States has decreased for the second year in a row, the first back-to-back drops in more than 50 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. In 2016,

Immigrants, they get the job done — eventually. Among dwarf mongooses, it takes newcomers a bit to settle into a pack. But once these immigrants become established residents, everyone in the pack profits,

US President Donald Trump called Jerusalem the capital of Israel on Wednesday and began the process moving his country's embassy to the city. The move sparked global condemnation from world leaders. Israel

Alerte d'urgence, s'il vous plaît lire et circuler. Informations de la police indique que: Il y a un syndicat de criminels qui vendent des beaux porte-clés dans les lieux publics, aéroports, stations

Lawyers for President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Thursday that they reached an agreement with prosecutors to free him from house arrest until his trial on federal money laundering

I wish that I had never seen the nude photo of U.S. Representative Joe Barton that is circulating around the Internet like wildfire. It is a photo that he took of himself and sent to a woman that he was

Les mhadjeb, une spécialité algérienne. C’est sorte de pâte feuilletée, faite à base de semouline, farcies le plus souvent à l’oignon et à la tomate. Mais, vous pouvez varier selon les goûts. Elles ont

Palestinian terrorist leaders often use teenagers to commit acts of terror because they know the Israeli legal system treats children more leniently than adults. Now 10 Democrats belonging to the Congressional