Giant pandas have been seen using twigs or pieces of bamboo to scratch themselves. Other than an old anecdotal report about giant pandas rubbing dirt into their fur, this is the first recorded ...

Ever wondered why black pepper burns your tongue? The answer lies in a powerful compound called piperine and scientists have learned how to extract it. Discover how this process works and why ...

Tim is an Australian Senior Editor based in Germany who has been passionate about video games since he first picked up a PlayStation 1 controller to play Crash Bandicoot as a kid. He started out with ...

X-ray tables. Hidden cameras. Pre-marked cards. Even special contact lenses. Prosecutors say the suspects charged Thursday in a high-profile illegal gambling bust made use of sophisticated technology ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

What if your old bottle of cooking oil could help save the planet and your smartphone? That's the big idea behind a groundbreaking discovery by researchers in Finland. Scientists from the University ...

Halfway through the first year of President Donald Trump’s second administration, an expansion in operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has led to a 123% increase from 2024 in ...

Import a Firebird 1 database to pandas dataframes, show a summary of the database table names, field names, field data types, and index columns, optionally extract and save table data to a directory, ...

Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages — including from chat apps such as Signal — ...

In science-fiction stories, companies often mine the moon or asteroids. While this may seem far-fetched, this idea is edging closer to becoming reality. The company recently attempted to land its ...

A Siberian cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian prison camp after his conviction for physically and financially harming his followers.