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Fans bid farewell to beloved California octopus Ghost as she cares for eggs in final stage of life

12:10 AM on Friday, September 12

A dying octopus in a Southern California aquarium is receiving an outflowing of love and well wishes as she spends her final days pouring her last energy into caring for her eggs

FILE - A koala sits in a tree at a koala park in Sydney, Australia, May 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

10:12 PM on Thursday, September 11

Australia has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia

FILE - A fisherman walks to his boat in Santa Rosa, Peru, an island on the Amazon River on Aug. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Well-preserved Amazon rainforest on Indigenous lands can protect people from diseases, study finds

11:07 AM on Thursday, September 11

A new study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences of multiple diseases in the regions around them

How to use 8 arms? Octopuses tend to explore with their front limbs

11:01 AM on Thursday, September 11

Scientists have discovered that octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they more often use their front arms for tasks

Sara Garber, attorney for Chengxuan Han, one of two Chinese scientists accused of smuggling or shipping biological material to the United States, speaks after a sentencing hearing at the U.S. District Court, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Judge says 3 months in jail are enough for Chinese scientist in US smuggling case

2:46 PM on Wednesday, September 10

A young Chinese scientist who's been in jail for three months will be returning to China

This image provided by NASA shows leopard spots on a reddish rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” in Mars’ Jezero Crater discovered by NASA’s Perseverance rover in July 2024. (NASA via AP)

New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life

11:01 AM on Wednesday, September 10

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life

Scientists say NASA Mars rover finds strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life, but more study is needed

11:00 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Scientists say NASA Mars rover finds strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life, but more study is needed

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a powerful explosion, orange dot at the center of the image, that repeated several times over the course of a day, The image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), allowed astronomers to determine that the explosion didn't take place in the Milky Way but in another galaxy. (European Southern Observatory via AP)

Scientists are baffled by a powerful and long-lasting gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy

11:34 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that's not only exceptionally powerful, but also long-lasting

Petitioner Yang Guoliang, whose family has been trapped in an increasingly tight noose of surveillance for the past 16 years, rests in his bedroom at his home in Changzhou, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Takeaways from AP's investigation into how US tech companies enabled China's digital police state

12:31 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

Petitioner Yang Guoliang looks through documents at his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China's digital police state

12:30 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

Petitioner Yang Guoliang pulls back the blackout curtain used to provide privacy from nearby police security cameras and lights during an interview at his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

12:04 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, a carrier of Lyme disease. (CDC via AP, File)

Invasive, disease-carrying tick found in Maine, the farthest northeast it has been spotted

1:25 PM on Monday, September 8

Researchers say they have confirmed the presence of an invasive species of tick in Maine for the first time, marking the farthest northeast in the U.S. where the pest has been discovered

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