Sci-Tech

A scientific expedition to the Galapagos Islands will spend ten days searching for relatives of two tortoise species believed to be extinct, including those of the archipelago's Lonesome George, park officials said Friday.

TikTok teens have a shiny, new toy to try: Byte, a social media platform, has launched on mobile. It's a direct successor to the Vine app, which was discontinued in early 2017 although videos posted to the platform are preserved to this day.

When scientists used a dart to give an antibiotic to a badly injured newborn whale off the coast of Florida last week, it was the first time the system was used for that purpose.

A doomsday video game that simulates the spread of a deadly pandemic has quickly become the bestselling app in China, Canada, and several other countries amid the coronavirus outbreak. 23

London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises worries about automated surveillance and erosion of privacy rights.

Scientists have revealed what the voice of a mummified Egyptian priest who lived 3,000 years ago would have sounded like by 3-D printing his vocal tract.

The most effective way to brew espresso with the least amount of wasted coffee is to use coarser grinds, a new U.K. study using mathematical modelling has determined.

Walking sharks could be the most recently evolved shark on Earth. That's according to findings published this week in Marine and Freshwater Research.

A new study by an international research team has found that some victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption had a slower death than initially believed.

Tinder is following in Uber's lead in adding in-app safety features for dates that become unsafe.

As the number of cases of the Wuhan coronavirus spike and health officials try to contain the outbreak, a new map has been released that lets you track the virus.

It looks like a piece of rock - black, shiny and unexceptional. But Italian anthropologists say the fragment is actually part of an exploded brain from an unfortunate victim of the volcanic eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

A 96-year-old woman from Toronto ticked a wish off her bucket list when she talked to an astronaut on the International Space Station. 1