Uber’s much heralded public offering has arrived not so much with a bang as with a whimper, thanks largely to the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China. Overnight, the U.S. government made good on the threat from President Donald Trump to hike tariffs …

Urban trees grow more quickly but die faster than rural trees, resulting in a net loss of street-tree carbon storage over time, according to a study published May 8 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ian Smith of Boston University, US and colleagues. The …

It is 2019 and we need to make a decision about GIFs (no, not that one! We’re never going to be able to decide that one!). GIFs take up a massive amount of space (often multiple megabytes!) and if you’re a web developer, then that’s completely...

The fetid waste of penguins and elephant seals helps spread nutrients across surprisingly large areas of Antarctica. This fertilizer traveled nearly as far as a kilometer (0.6 miles) past the edges of their active outposts, floating on the chilled Antarctic w…

Will Black Widow’s death in Avengers: Endgame be permanent? She’s set for her own standalone film soon, though rumor has it that it will be a prequel. But there are plenty more MCU movies to come, she’s a fan-favorite character, and killing off the franchise’…

In the complaint, the coalition accuses Amazon of unlawfully storing data from conversations with children even after parents try to delete it, something that, if true, could violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), one of the only federa…