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BEIJING (AP) — China expanded its lockdown against the deadly new virus to an unprecedented 36 million people and rushed to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for victims Friday as the...

Billions of years ago, in the center of a galaxy cluster far, far away (15 billion light-years, to be exact), a black hole spewed out jets of plasma. As the plasma rushed out of the black hole, it pushed away material, creating two large cavities 180 degrees from each other. In the same way you can calculate the energy of an asteroid impact by the size of its crater, Michael Calzadilla, a graduate student at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI), used the size of these cavities to figure out the power of the black hole's outburst.

The departure of Uber's co-founder and former CEO is effective Dec. 31.

5G tablets and smartwatches and phones, oh my

"Star Trek" fans may set their phasers to stun after seeing the new Space Force logo.

President Donald Trump is heard ordering a Ukrainian associate of Rudy Giuliani to "get rid of" Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in a 2018 recording.

Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the one-celled organisms called protists, at least among people over 30. But the first study to characterize protists in soils from around the world—co-authored by Smithsonian scientists—found that the most common groups of soil protists behave exactly like Pac-Man: moving through the soil matrix, gobbling up bacteria. Their results are published in Science Advances.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that Tesla intends to open a product design center in Europe. The design center would likely be built at the same site as Tesla’s Gigafactory 4 project outside Berlin. Earlier this month, Musk also announced that Tesla wants to open a design center in China to design cars for the …

Hong Kong health authorities have confirmed 5 cases of coronavirus, with an additional 122 people being treated as potentially infected.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex seem to be eyeing British Columbia as a potential home base for their family. Did they choose the provinces because of it's privacy laws?

In his new year message, Boris Johnson says he hopes the country can "move forward united".

The Etiennes live in Jennings, Louisiana, a small town about 1½ hours west of the LSU campus in Baton Rouge.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey reached 22 on Saturday, as rescuers searched for survivors trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

Mike Fiers has been a central figure in the recent controversy surrounding the Astros’ sign-stealing scheme put into play in early 2017. Given the opportunity to address the fallout from MLB’s investigation into the matter for the first time on Friday, the A’s right-hander chose not to go

So far tests on 14 people in the UK have shown to be negative, the chief medical officer says.

Who needs maps? Facebook has scored an impressive feat involving AI that can navigate without any map.

US air safety regulators could clear the Boeing 737 MAX to return to service before mid-year, a person close to the process said Friday.

High wind forced Boeing to again delay the inaugural flight of its long-haul 777X aircraft on Friday.

In a move that would please Gene Roddenberry – or make him ask for royalties – the president showed off a familiar looking symbol

Two patients diagnosed with coronavirus in the U.S. are doing well, but hospitalized for "infection control," according to the CDC.