US households are dropping their traditional pay TV packages at a faster rate than in the past amid a rise in streaming video services like Netflix, a survey showed Tuesday.
Business
Jul 24, 2018
0
9
Borderlands are synonymous with desolation, but the Mexico-U.S. divide is something altogether different. The nearly 2,000-mile-long border traverses some of the continent's most biologically diverse regions, including forests, ...
Ecology
Jul 24, 2018
7
60
Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Wukong, the coldest cloud tops circling the center resembled a strawberry and leaf.
Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2018
0
11
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite found Tropical Depression Son-Tinh over southern China early on July 24.
Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2018
0
6
Coldwater stream habitats are vulnerable to effects of climate change, particularly to changes in precipitation and air temperatures that alter their hydrology. Some of these streams are expected to diminish in size, permanently ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2018
0
6
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, killed tens of thousands of people and left millions homeless. About 20,000 deaths—nearly 30 percent of the total—resulted not from the ground shaking itself but from the ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2018
0
31
Drones could be used across hi-tech Singapore to deliver life-saving medical supplies to a patient during an emergency or to respond to a security breach under a new system in development, a private consortium said Tuesday.
Engineering
Jul 24, 2018
0
8
The dust that coats much of the surface of Mars originates largely from a single thousand-kilometer-long geological formation near the Red Planet's equator, scientists have found.
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2018
57
138
Washington State University researchers have found that marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington has not hurt police effectiveness. In fact, clearance rates for certain crimes have improved.
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2018
0
17
As technology transforms the job market, migrant workers are in a more precarious position than others, according to a new study from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service.
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2018
0
2
