The 'Biospherians' in Biosphere 2 tried to recreate in miniature everything needed to survive on Earth

'Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,' Siegfried Fischbacher said in a statement

The Supreme Court, for the first time, livestreamed its oral argument on Monday. It has discussed whether generic terms can become protected trademarks by the addition of a dot-com domain.

The state accuses the ride-hailing apps of flouting a labor law by classifying drivers as independent contractors instead of employees.

The Supreme Court is now holding hearings over a teleconference, making the audio publicly available. Jerry Goldman, the founder of the Oyez Project, offers some guidance on how to listen to it.

"Deepfakes" have received a lot of attention as a way to potentially spread misleading or false information and influence public opinion. But two specialists say that might not be a huge concern.

The company has agreed to launch a new internal data security program and will take other steps to combat hacker disruptions.

The tech giant announces it is extending its previous work-from-home plans for most of its staff and will begin reopening offices this summer.

Influential keyboardist and electronic music pioneer dies following short battle with cancer

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The musician’s breezy vocals sit quite well with his light acoustic guitar plucking on the track

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The British vocalist and singer-songwriter suffered a cardiac arrest on May 6th in Florida

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The world music duo on reinventing their 2011 track ‘Karpur Gauram’ with 17 musicians from nine countries

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Twin sisters Nishita and Atisha Lulla talk about recording a previous single in Mumbai, the country-folk influence and more

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The record is filled with soaring vocals, melodic guitar work, stomping grooves and more

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The year-old band also called on Zygnema’s Sidharth Kadadi to produce their second release

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The Bengaluru turn up on dissonance and retain prog flavors on their latest song

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Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow

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Air-burning plasma thruster may be competitive with jet engines.

They are among the earliest enslaved African people brought to the Americas.

"There will be no social distancing in place," union rep wrote to city leaders.

Consumers are starting to see meat shortages after thousands of workers fall ill.

Posts from high-profile accounts tout questionable virus therapies and cures.

Trump admin allegedly told CDC its reopening guide would "never see the light of day."

A solar-driven hydrogen-producing machine that makes more copies of itself.

The 89-year-old naturalist and broadcaster is brimming with enthusiasm for his latest TV series, Great Barrier Reef, and the wonder of filming underwater in a submarine. The first of three shows starts on BBC1 on 30 December

The first time I visited the Great Barrier Reef was in 1957 when I was on my way to New Guinea. In those days, television didn’t have a lot of money so, when you got to the other side of the world, you took advantage of it as you never knew when you were going to get back again, and so I took in the Barrier Reef on the way.

It was right at the beginning of the era of underwater swimming. There had been a Viennese pair, Han and Lotte Hass, who had a show underwater called Diving to Adventure. Those of us who had television sets – our jaws dropped! This wonderful girl in this white costume just knocking sharks on the head with the camera. Amazing!

This centuries-old teahouse in Sichuan province and its regulars are a world away from China’s modern megacities

Out in the western suburbs of Sichuan’s capital, Chengdu, the town of Pengzhen is home to what’s said to be the oldest teahouse in China. About 300 years old, the Guanyin Pavilion is at the heart of a tiny community of historic streets where, against a tide of rapid modernisation, the local population proudly preserves its heritage and traditional way of life.

From samba to jazz and house, the DJ and founder of radio station Worldwide FM picks 10 tracks to transport you to Brazil

Originally released in 1980, this funky track from solo artist Cristina Camargo is pure “80s vibes”, Peterson says. “I’ve been loving this boogie tune, produced by Lincoln Olivetti and Robson Jorge, of late. It lifts the mood every time.” Olivetti and Jorge crafted Rio’s early-80s boogie sound, and produced classic albums by Brazilian disco legends in the mid-70s. “It reminds me of line dancing in Rio, particularly on a Sunday afternoon in Lapa, where sound systems play a mixture of this and classic British 80s cuts by the likes of Lisa Stansfield and Soul II Soul – very obscure!”

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it has forged a new agreement with Vulcan Inc., the Seattle-based holding company created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, to share data on ocean science and exploration. The memorandum of understanding builds on an existing relationship between NOAA and Vulcan. “The future of ocean science and exploration is partnerships,” retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and deputy NOAA administrator, said today in a news release. “NOAA is forging new collaborations, such as the one with Vulcan, to accelerate our mission to map, explore… Read More

How the ancient techniques of the world's indigenous people could help to combat climate change.

Scientists map ancient underwater landslides in the region chosen for Jakarta's replacement.

The 5,100 sq km behemoth which broke away from Antarctica in 2017 drops its own large chunk of ice.

One month after the debut of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, or CORD-19, the database of coronavirus-related research papers has doubled in size – and has given rise to more than a dozen software tools to channel the hundreds of studies that are being published every day about the pandemic. In a roundup published on the ArXiv preprint server this week, researchers from Seattle's Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Research and other partners in the project say CORD-19's collection has risen from about 28,000 papers to more than 52,000. Every day, several hundred more papers are being published, in… Read More

Surviving trees growing near to an active volcano face an uncertain future for several years after an eruption, a study suggests.

NASA has awarded a $2 million grant to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Aerospace Corp. — and Xplore, a Seattle-based space venture — to develop the design architecture for a far-out telescope array that would use the sun's gravitational field as a lens to focus on alien planets. The Phase III award from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, would cover two years of development work and could lead to the launch of a technology demonstration mission in the 2023-2024 time frame. Xplore's team will play a key role in designing the demonstration mission's spacecraft, which would be… Read More

New techniques are being used to transform images from Hubble into spectacular 3D visualisations.

The discovery that the badger-like animal lived alongside dinosaurs challenges ideas about mammals.

How African researchers are using the continent's languages to help spur innovation in Artificial Intelligence.

US space agency satellites follow the melting trends in Antarctica and Greenland over 16 years.

Mediterranean sediments are shown to have up to 1.9 million tiny plastic pieces per square metre.

Scientists are working on better solar cells that will turn more of the sun's rays into electricity.

BBC News looks at what we know and don't know about the Earth's changing climate.

Areas such as India, Australia and Africa are predicted to be among the worst affected.

An unseen object is found to be lurking in a double-star system a mere 1,000 light-years from Earth.