Hurricane Matthew’s heavy rains are predicted to soak much of Florida, and that could complicate efforts to manage the pollution flowing into a sinkhole that opened up beneath a fertilizer plant’s massive pile of toxic
A French official says the hackers who knocked a French television station offline last year are still regularly trying break in to French government computers. Senior French cybersecurity official Guillaume Poupard says sensors deployed at
Amazon has updated its barcode-scanning Dash shopping wand so you can now buy anything with it, not just groceries. With the new Amazon Dash , you scan a product’s barcode or say its name to
Rocket company Blue Origin has pulled off a double success. The aerospace startup led by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos tested the escape system of its space capsule Wednesday in remote west Texas. Not only did the
The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who helped develop the smallest machines known to man. They are Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 71, of the University of Strasbourg; British-born Fraser Stoddart, a
The Latest on the Nobel prize in chemistry (all times local): 12:20 p.m. Officials at the University of Strasbourg, where Sauvage is a professor emeritus in the Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering, said they
Special Agent Jack Bennett was at the FBI’s computer investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia, on a Sunday in March when an outside company showed the bureau how it could hack into an iPhone used by
Because of its distinctive coat of hard shells, the pangolin, or scaly anteater, has been called the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal. More than 1 million have been poached in the past decade, threatening the
