Video shot by Justin Wolfson, edited by John Cappello. Script by Scott Johnson. Click here for transcript. The Earth’s oceans are rising. It’s an inevitable outcome when ice sitting on land melts and when oceans warm, which causes their volume to expand. But if you live at the coast, it may not be rising near you. […]

Enlarge / SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket goes vertical on Wednesday morning in Florida. (credit: SpaceX) 2:15pm ET Update: SpaceX successfully launched the Dragon spacecraft en route to the International Space Station on Wednesday. However, in something of a surprise, the first stage didn’t quite make it back safely to the landing site. We have full […]

Yersinia pestis bacteria (the cause of bubonic plague) in the foregut of the flea vector.“> Enlarge / Scanning electron micrograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria (the cause of bubonic plague) in the foregut of the flea vector. (credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories / Wikimedia) Barbara Bramanti grew up near Florence, Italy, worked for a […]

Discovery.“> Enlarge / In 1998, STS-91 Mission Specialist and Russian cosmonaut Valery Victorovitch Ryumin is assisted with his flight suit prior to his entry into the space shuttle Discovery. (credit: NASA) Valery Ryumin has had a long career as an engineer and cosmonaut: he was twice named a Hero of the Soviet Union, a veteran […]

Enlarge / A Chinese woman reacts while setting up the facial recognition feature on her iPhone X inside an Apple showroom in Beijing in 2017. Qualcomm says a Chinese court has banned iPhone X sales in China. (credit: FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) Qualcomm says it has scored an important victory in its long-running global patent battle […]

Enlarge / The Member for Sydney Tanya Plibersek speaks as the Labor party stay for the end of parliament in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on December 06, 2018, in Canberra, Australia. (credit: Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images) On Thursday, the Australian parliament approved a measure that critics say will weaken encryption in favor of […]

Enlarge (credit: Valentina Palladino) The newest update for Apple Watches is out now, bringing a highly anticipated feature to Series 4 devices. Apple pushed out watchOS 5.1.2 today, which includes its ECG app for monitoring irregular heartbeats. Apple Watch Series 4 devices all have built-in electrodes that can measure electrocardiograms, or ECGs. At the time […]

Enlarge / The 2018, 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard Folio. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple simultaneously released minor software updates for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TV boxes today with iOS 12.1.1, macOS Mojave 10.14.2, and tvOS 12.1.1. The focus is on bug fixes and security, so none of them introduce major new features. […]

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook looks on as the iPhone X goes on sale at an Apple Store on November 3, 2017 in Palo Alto, California. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Apple CEO Tim Cook further condemned white supremacists when he accepted an award from the Anti-Defamation League at an event in New York on […]

Enlarge / The Google Plus (G+, or Google +) social network logo is seen in the company’s offices behind Android toys on August 21, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. (credit: Adam Berry/Getty Images) Two months after disclosing an error that exposed the private profile data of almost 500,000 Google+ users, Google on Monday revealed a new […]