There is a growing market dedicated to creating protective software for our everyday mobile devices. And much of it is aimed at combating one thing: pornography. In the digital age, pornography is ...

The trees have become a sought-after backdrop for social media posts, holiday cards and even marriage proposals. The trees have become a sought-after backdrop for social media posts, holiday cards and ...

It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

Trees contain valuable information about Earth's past, so much so that studying their rings may help fill in hidden gaps in Ohio's environmental history. Trees are the planet's living lungs; they ...

This week, Earth will get its best chance to steady an interstellar comet as it makes its closest approach to the planet. Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and anyone can get a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as ...

Reforesting areas of the world comes with major benefits, but adding billions of trees can come with unintended consequences. A new study details how China’s massive regreening effort has altered the ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Here's how to fill your home with holiday cheer, without a safety hazard Every December, we turn our living rooms into holiday showpieces, some bright enough to make Clark Griswold proud. It’s a ...

Apple is today celebrating the winners of Your Tree on Battersea, its festive UK competition that invited people to design digital Christmas trees on iPad. The 24 winning submissions are set to be ...

This dazzling tree is hard to miss. A video shows the 75-foot-tall Norway Spruce lighting up at Rockefeller Center in New York City on Wednesday, Dec. 3, kicking off the holiday season. Thousands of ...

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