The secret unit former U.S. counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke helped the UAE create had an ominous acronym: DREAD, short for Development Research Exploitation and Analysis Department. In the years that followed, the UAE unit expanded its hunt far beyond suspected extremists to include a Saudi women's rights activist, diplomats at the United Nations and personnel at FIFA, the world soccer body.
Old ships' logs are giving scientists new insights into the past and future of the earth's changing climate.
Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bomber will try to persuade a federal appeals court that the death sentence he faces is unfair because it was handed down by a tainted jury.
An eccentric group of citizen-scientists called Old Weather has transcribed millions of observations from long-forgotten logbooks of ships, many from the great era of Arctic exploration. As the polar regions grow ever warmer, the volunteers have amassed a rich repository of climate data in a 21st century rescue mission.
A series of rarely seen black-and-white photographs dating back to the Rolling Stones' first concert tour in 1963 will go on display in east London this month.
A South Korean service is offering free funerals — but only to the living.
Juul executives knew young people were flocking to the brand. They also knew the nicotine blend was unusually potent. They released it anyway.
"It surprises us because it has no brain but is able to learn… and if you merge two blobs, the one that has learned will transmit its knowledge to the other."
Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing arm is making an aggressive push into one of the most sensitive technology sectors: US elections.
On a lost-in-time island off the coast of England, a group called the Cloud Appreciation Society gathers to look skyward and bask in the delights of nature. But halfway around the world, scientists have modeled a scenario in which Stratocumulus actually disappear under extreme climate conditions
Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.
