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Other Feb 7, 2018

Driverless cars could create new jobs in a welcome boost to Australia's motor industry

The race to market for widespread driverless cars may be on, but that doesn't mean we're anywhere near a deployable reality. Much of the initial hype has settled down, and the claims made by manufacturers and startups with ...

Ecology Dec 21, 2017

Activists want to build bridge over freeway to provide safe crossing for wildlife

As 101 Freeway traffic streaked past, a dozen conservationists and fundraisers gathered this week just west of Liberty Canyon Road in Agoura Hills, their eyes alternating between maps they carried and the contours of a canyon ...

Business Aug 21, 2017

GE's Immelt among finalists in Uber CEO search

Former General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt is among the finalists being considered to run ride-hailing company Uber, but there's no clear consensus among its board about a front-runner, two people briefed on the search said ...

Other Jun 2, 2017

Commercializing structural biology knowledge can save money and speed drug discovery

HarkerBIO is a "shining star" in the growing biotech ecosystem taking shape on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The small structural biology company determines 3-D structures of proteins for drug and biotech companies.

Security Mar 9, 2017

Study examines 200 real-world 'zero-day' software vulnerabilities

Zero-day software vulnerabilities - security holes that developers haven't fixed or aren't aware of - can lurk undetected for years, leaving software users particularly susceptible to hackers. A new study from the RAND Corporation, ...

Space Exploration Nov 7, 2016

NASA, FEMA hold asteroid emergency planning exercise

What would we do if we discovered a large asteroid on course to impact Earth? While highly unlikely, that was the high-consequence scenario discussed by attendees at an Oct. 25 NASA-FEMA tabletop exercise in El Segundo, California.

Business Jun 22, 2016

SoftBank's founder reverses retirement plans, says heir apparent 'victim'

The boss of SoftBank Group on Wednesday admitted his desire to hang on to power a little longer had pushed away the former Google executive seen as his heir apparent.

Environment Jun 1, 2016

New rules to hold mining industry accountable for cleanups

Early this year, a federal court agreed with environmental advocates that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must take steps to ensure that mining companies pay for their own harmful environmental impacts so the taxpayer ...

Space Exploration Feb 19, 2016

Virgin Galactic rolls out new space tourism rocket plane (Update)

Virgin Galactic rolled out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket Friday as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 accident destroyed the original craft, killing a pilot and ...

Internet Jan 19, 2016

Twitter disruption silences swaths of US, Europe for hours (Update 4)

Some Twitter users had to do without early Tuesday after sporadic outages knocked the social media site offline in the U.S. and Europe.

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