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Legal efforts to tackle excessive personal information collection by social media giants could transcend international boundaries if nations moved away from a focus on assessing competition using the value of data, a new study says.

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

The pastoralist lifestyle is often depicted as an unchanging dietary reliance on herd animals and mobility. This is particularly the case in eastern Africa, where a dedicated focus on herds, meat and dairy, alongside extreme mobility, is seen as the…

Being in “holiday mode” makes tourists less environmentally responsible, according to a recent University of Queensland study. Researchers found that while tourists’ core environmental values don’t change, traveling can activate a “vacation place identity” which makes people feel freer and…

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of Earth, to the stratospheric polar vortex.

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

A new analysis of 471 U.S. counties has found that, for everyday travel, people from counties with particularly strong political leanings—whether liberal or conservative—are more likely to visit like-minded destinations. Zhengyi Liang and Jaeho Cho of the University of California,…

SpaceX plans to launch the 12th test flight of its Starship megarocket in six weeks, according to Elon Musk. It will be the first mission of the bigger, more powerful Starship “V3.”

“We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly not the case.”

Interlocking directorates—the practice of the same director sitting on the boards of competing companies—have long been identified with backroom deals and corporate collusion. In 1914, when antitrust laws began cracking down on the practice, future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis…