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South Korea's President Says Trump Wants to Grant Kim Jong Un's Wishes

North Korea has sought security guarantees from the U.S.

Alphabet's DeepMind AI Algorithm Wins Protein-Folding Contest

The shape of proteins is important for understanding many biological processes, and a key step in finding molecules that may be useful in the creation of new medicines. It was the first time DeepMind, which is best known for beating the world’s top professional players at the strategy game Go, had...

Mexico's AMLO Says He Will Use the Army to Fight Rampant Crime

Use of the military is "indispensable" says President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Coal question looms large as climate talks begin in Poland

KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Negotiators from around the world opened the United Nations' annual climate change conference Sunday in a Polish city built around mining coal, widely seen as a main culprit behind global warming.

12 years after launch, New Horizons probe zeroes in on mysterious Ultima Thule

Act Two of the 12-year-old New Horizons mission to Pluto and the solar system’s icy Kuiper Belt is heating up, with less than a month to go before NASA’s piano-sized spacecraft makes history’s farthest-out close encounter with a celestial object. The New Year’s flyby of a mysterious Kuiper Belt obje...

Meet the Submersible Nuclear Ramjet: Part Nuclear Bomber, Part Submarine (And Moving at Mach 4)

It could have killed millions--and served as the ultimate Cold War terror weapon.

Fuel supplies, schools hit on Week 3 of 'yellow vest' protests

Dozens of French "yellow vest" demonstrators blocked access to a major fuel depot and several highways on Monday on the third week of anti-government protests which led to major riots in Paris at the weekend. Around 50 people blocked the fuel depot in the port of Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, where...

Popular scientist Tyson rejects misconduct allegations

Well-known author and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Sunday denied allegations by three women of sexual misconduct spanning several decades. Tyson, 60, who has built a successful career on television and in his books explaining and popularizing science, had remained largely silent as three d...

NYPD Helps Out After a Times Square Marriage Proposal Ended in the Worst Possible Way

Police found, and even cleaned, the lost ring

COP24: UN climate change conference, what’s at stake and what you need to know

Reprint of article originally posted on UN NEWS on Nov 29, 2018.& Click here to access the original. As global temperatures continue to rise, climate action is lagging and the window of opportunity is closing. On Sunday, the United Nations will kick off critical negotiations on how to address the...

You’ll soon be able to get a DNA test for $100 — here’s the company behind the breakthrough

As the cost plummets, the usage of DNA mapping in health care is exploding. For example, a new prenatal test based on DNA mapping can detect hard-to-find problems with babies inside a mother’s womb. Earlier this year, Medicare and Medicaid announced they will start reimbursing patients for DNA map...

Better Buy: Editas Medicine vs. Sangamo Therapeutics

Gene editing comes in different flavors. Which of these gene-editing biotech stocks is tastier?

Men Dominate Scrabble Tournaments, But That Doesn’t Mean Much

Does that explain the continued male majority in the physics and computer science departments of U.S. universities? This debate refuses to die, long after the Harvard president Larry Summers infamously floated the idea back in 2005. The author, Heather Mac Donald, points out that men have won all...

UN climate talks open in Poland with call for 'urgent' action

Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland Sunday against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. The COP24 climate summit will see nations try to agree on ways of implementing the p...

Grim tidings from science on climate change

Scientists monitoring the Earth's climate and environment have delivered a cascade of grim news this year, adding a sense of urgency to UN talks starting Sunday in Poland on how best to draw down the greenhouse gases that drive global warming. The 2015 Paris Agreement calls on humanity to block the...

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