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One Tech Tip: Don't give your email to strangers, use a decoy address instead

LONDON (AP) 鈥� You've heard of burner phones.

Mar 27, 2025 12:01 AM Read more >

Researchers in limbo as Columbia bows to Trump鈥檚 demands in bid to restore $400M federal funding

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� When President Donald Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over its handling of student protests against Israel's war in Gaza, much of the financial pain fell on researchers a train ride away from the school's

Mar 26, 2025 9:35 PM Read more >

A Venus flytrap wasp? Scientists uncover an ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched its prey

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs , with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday.

Mar 26, 2025 6:07 PM Read more >

In closing remarks, prosecutor says Frank founder lied to JPMorgan Chase to secure $175 million deal

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The young chief executive of a startup that claimed to have helped millions of college students apply for financial aid deployed a 鈥渂razen fraud鈥� to sell the company to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Mar 26, 2025 2:41 PM Read more >

Chinese researchers report a pig kidney transplant and a first-step liver experiment

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants 鈥� with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too.

Mar 26, 2025 11:43 AM Read more >

Neptune's auroras are captured in great detail by NASA's Webb telescope

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989.

Mar 26, 2025 10:31 AM Read more >

Cyprus to fund desalination plants at hotels to reduce impact of water shortages on tourism

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) 鈥� Cyprus said Wednesday it plans to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels to ensure the tourism-reliant island nation has enough fresh water too see it through busy summer seasons when the demands of mil

Mar 26, 2025 8:22 AM Read more >

3D printed and factory-built homes could help tackle housing crisis

DENVER (AP) 鈥� As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices , builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp 鈥� yes, the marijuana cousin 鈥� to make bu

Mar 26, 2025 8:22 AM Read more >

Renewable energy jumps to new high, powered by China solar boom

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Installation of renewable energy worldwide hit a record high last year, with 92.5% of all new electricity brought online coming from the sun, wind or other clean sources, an international agency reports.

Mar 26, 2025 7:22 AM Read more >

Get ready for a partial solar eclipse across Europe and parts of North America and Africa

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The moon will appear to take bites out of the sun this weekend during a partial solar eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere 鈥� but make sure to protect your eyes.