Himanshu Goenka

A number of factors, specific to the industry, could leave your medical and other data vulnerable to exploitation, a report by SecurityScorecard warns.

The Paris Agreement became a law Friday, but a U.N. report issued Thursday warns a lot more needs to be done to avoid potentially catastrophic increases in global temperatures.

Dick Clark Productions was bought by the Chinese business group, owned by the country’s richest man Wang Jianlin, for about $1 billion.

Simply dumping the 4.3 million handsets it manufactured, and then recalled or not sold, will be tantamount to an environmental disaster.

Elon Musk’s space launch company could lose some business because of the delays caused by the Sept. 1 explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket.

Move over Dead Sea. Here’s a water body, which even though underwater itself, kills almost anything that ventures inside it.

A first-of-its-kind instrument being developed at NASA will use the sense of smell to look for traces of life on the red planet.

The James Webb Space Telescope, with a 6.5-meter primary mirror, will now undergo testing and is scheduled for an October 2018 launch from French Guiana.

The moon’s orbit is unusually far from Earth, and is not close to Earth’s equatorial plane but closer to the ecliptic place, to which it is tilted at about 5 degrees.

There is strong local opposition in Hawaii to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea volcano which is considered sacred by native Hawaiians.

It sounds like science fiction, but using spinach and nanotubes, that’s exactly what researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have done.

Numerous titles are on discount — as much as 80 percent for some — but the sale won’t last long. So grab what you want while it’s still cheap(er)!

According to a new report, about 600,000 children under the age of five die around the world due to causes related to air pollution.

A man had a close encounter with the panda in a zoo in Nanchang, China, and was lucky to escape without any injuries.

A large number of choices — Amazon, Apple, Pandora, Slacker Radio, Spotify — with seemingly similar plans can be confusing. Here’s some help to let you decide.

Among other things, the anti-establishment Pirate Party, widely expected to make big gains in the country’s parliamentary elections Saturday, wanted to grant citizenship to Edward Snowden.

Astronauts from Expedition 49 returned to Earth in an upgraded Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft, landing in Kazakhstan just before midnight Saturday.

Iran and Iraq disagreed with production data and refused cuts, sending oil prices — already affected by the negative market sentiment Friday — further lower.

However, the company said in an update Friday it has made progress in its investigation and hopes to return to flight before the year is over.

The rare stars rotate at dizzying speeds, which affects their shape and produces X-rays more than 100 times of the sun at its maximum.

The proposal to declare the Ross Sea region in the Southern Ocean a protected area was introduced by New Zealand and the U.S. in 2012.

The finding, made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, revealed another surprise about the temperature of the intergalactic medium in the halos.

The Living Planet Report 2016, released by WWF International, said two-thirds of the world’s wildlife populations could be gone by 2020.

Yes, says Kim Dotcom. The internet entrepreneur, wanted by the U.S. on copyright infringement and money laundering charges, even explained the seemingly simple process.

The International Energy Agency, which made the observation in a new report, also significantly hiked its growth forecast for renewables over the next five years.

According to conventional physics, almost all solid materials expand under the effect of heat.

The men reportedly are brothers, originally from Michigan, who claim to have recently converted to Islam.

A research group that analyzes app economy ranked 90 separate banking and mobile wallet apps, based on 13 million user reviews and ratings.

Phone scams and robocalls have become a serious menace, and the Federal Communications Commission will hold its second Robocall Strike Force meeting Wednesday.