More than 3,300 Android apps are improperly tracking kids, study finds

Thousands of family-friendly apps from the Google Play Store are potentially violating federal law, according to…

A news subscription for your iPhone? Apple may launch one by 2019: report

Last month, Apple announced it acquired the digital magazine distributor Texture as an entry to the…

Will the FTC come down hard on Facebook? It’s only happened twice in 20 years

If Facebook has to pay a Federal Trade Commission penalty for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal,…

Electric ferries and joined-up shipping to turn sea travel green

Electric ferries and digital communication between ships could help in the quest to decarbonise maritime transport,…

Spinach used in neutron studies could unearth secret to stronger plant growth

Plants, algae, and other organisms produce the RuBisCO enzyme to convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere…

Meteorite diamonds tell of a lost planet

Scientists have examined a slice from a meteorite that contains large diamonds formed at high pressure.…

We can recognize speakers only from how faces move when talking

Results of a new study by psychologists and speech scientists should help to settle a long-standing…

Better species mapping can improve conservation efforts

The scientific models that ecologists and conservation biologists rely on to determine which species and habitats…

Battery’s hidden layer revealed

An international team makes breakthrough in understanding the chemistry of the microscopically thin layer that forms…

New ancestor of modern sea turtles found in Alabama

A sea turtle discovered in Alabama is a new species from the Late Cretaceous epoch, according…