Google shakes up antivirus industry -- For more than a decade, Google's VirusTotal has given antivirus companies the ability to detect malware and share information about new viruses

Why the CIA won't waterboard, even if ordered by the president

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Using seawater for heating? Alaska aquarium takes the plunge

Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions were even bigger than we thought

An environmental success for China

Scientists discover 99-million-year-old lizards preserved in amber

Denisovans: Mysterious archaic humans reveal clues to our own history... Archaic humans and Homo sapiens interbred tens of thousands of years ago

FDA presses medical device makers to OK good faith hacking

States consider allowing kids to learn coding instead of foreign languages

A strong majority of Passcode Influencers said that Apple should not comply with a US court’s order to help the FBI get into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone.

How a Namib Desert beetle could help stop frost on airplanes

What a 45,000-year-old mammoth carcass can tell us about human history

Ancient humans' taste for giant eggs led to extinction of 500-pound bird

Will driverless cars mean the end of auto insurance? Driverless cars could mean a huge downsizing of the auto insurance industry, as the frequency of accidents declines and liability shifts from the driver to the vehicle’s software or automaker.

Leopard sharks use smells to steer, scientists say

Crows caught on camera making tools in the wild

Old economic models couldn't predict the recession. Time for new ones

Activists and fishermen team up to address record whale entanglement

Scientists have wound electronic circuits into plants' vascular tissues

Omura's whales, recently thought to be extinct, have been found near Madacascar

Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free

How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their way out of criticism

Wildlife thriving in abandoned Chernobyl zone

'Hackers' at 20

The battle between Washington and Silicon Valley over encryption

For Sale in Spain: Entire Villages, Cheap

Scientists have discovered that eye shape can reveal whether a species is predator or prey

"Anyone with a keyboard and a cause can have a living person declared legally dead by taking advantage of security weaknesses in the online death registration process"

Can we colonize the moon?

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