Sci-Fi

For 17 days, a southern resident killer whale (SRKW) named J35, but better known as Tahlequah, carried her deceased baby for more than 1,000 miles. The orca’s unusually long spell of grieving came to an […]

Getting directions to the nearest Starbucks or Target is a task Apple’s virtual assistant can handle with ease. But what about local businesses with names that Siri has never heard, and might mistake for another […]

JUUL is the vape giant that went from zero to in three years. Truth Initiative is the largest anti-smoking organization in the United States. Both the company and the non-profit claim to have the same […]

Online dating isn’t easy, and now we have the data to prove it. A new study, published in the journal Science Advances Wednesday — which analyzed data from a pool of tens of thousands of […]

Which member of The Beatles wrote “In My Life,” from the 1965 album Rubber Soul? It turns out that math has the answer. Debates have long raged across pop culture about who wrote which Beatles […]

In 1957, the Soviets launched the first-ever satellite into space, Sputnik. But already, two years earlier, Los Alamos had grander space designs. In 1955, it had launched Project Rover, an ambitious rocket program. But this […]

A recently published study sought answers to a seemingly unquantifiable question: What does dating “out of your league” really mean? Published in the journal Science Advances, new research details a “hierarchy of desirability” that attempts […]

Artist’s illustration of the Parker Solar Probe at the sun. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben By Miriam Kramer2018-08-10 18:29:18 UTC A NASA probe is about to launch on a mission to the sun in the […]

The waters off the Southern California coast are now approaching tropical temperatures found in parts of the balmy Caribbean Sea.  On Wednesday, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego recorded its highest ocean temperature […]

BYO bag NZ. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto By Shannon Connellan2018-08-10 02:08:41 UTC In an effort to tackle plastic pollution, New Zealand is committed to banning plastic bags for good. On Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and […]