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Security cameras are seen by a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong near Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

How the AP uncovered US big tech's role in China's digital police state

12:12 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

Francois Ribalet, a research associate professor at the University of Washington's School of Oceanography, holds a vial of Prochlorococcus on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds

11:44 AM on Monday, September 8

New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as oceans warm

Study: Warming seas severely threaten phytoplankton, endangering the ocean food web

11:40 AM on Monday, September 8

Study: Warming seas severely threaten phytoplankton, endangering the ocean food web

A person eats ice cream Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

As world gets hotter, Americans are turning to more sugar, study finds

11:02 AM on Monday, September 8

A new study finds that climate change is increasing sugar consumption in the United States

Balzan prizes of nearly $1 million awarded for democracy studies and advances in leukemia treatment

10:37 AM on Monday, September 8

The Switzerland-based Balzan Foundation on Monday announced four awards of nearly $1 million for excellence in the humanities and hard sciences

A boat goes past an onshore wave energy site, a pilot by Eco Wave Power, at the Port of Los Angeles' AltaSea ocean institute on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

In LA port, bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energy

9:07 AM on Monday, September 8

At the Port of Los Angeles on a site that once housed oil tanks, seven steel structures that look like small blue boats are lowered into the ocean, where they gently bob up and down with the waves to generate power

Another New Hampshire man gets a pig kidney as transplant trials are poised to start

8:04 AM on Monday, September 8

A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant

Photos show a lunar eclipse across Asia and Europe

5:15 PM on Sunday, September 7

A reindeer calf rests at a farm in Lulea, Sweden, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Malin Haarala)

Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders

4:02 AM on Sunday, September 7

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes

Radioactive metal at an Indonesia industrial site may be linked to shrimp recall

4:42 PM on Friday, September 5

International officials say contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia could be the source of radioactive material behind recalls of imported shrimp

Thousands of newborn stars dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA's Webb Space Telescope

11:41 AM on Friday, September 5

Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA's Webb Space Telescope

FILE - The moon shines over Mexico City during a total lunar eclipse, in Mexico City, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Asia will get a prime view of this weekend's total lunar eclipse

11:29 AM on Friday, September 5

The year's second total lunar eclipse is coming up fast, and this time Asia will have the best seats in the cosmos

FILE - The Pentagon, the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense, is seen from the air, Aug. 20, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pentagon-funded research at colleges has aided the Chinese military, a House GOP report says

10:00 AM on Friday, September 5

A congressional investigation finds the Pentagon has funded research involving collaboration with Chinese entities linked to China's defense sector

Astrology’s appeal in uncertain times

8:45 AM on Friday, September 5

Telescope reveals a growing tail on the comet that's visiting from another star

5:40 PM on Thursday, September 4

Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that's visiting from another star

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