SCIENCE

Billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged the fiery death of SpaceX's SN10 Starship prototype on Friday.

Food experts often say cooking is an art but baking is a science, which might be the reason why Betty Croker has teamed up with Barbie to launch a new online kitchen lab.

Eccentric Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for eight civilian volunteers to blast off to the Moon with him on the first-ever private commercial space trip.

Billionaire Elon Musk said Thursday that he would welcome a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into his tweets about meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted Friday in support of the successful landing of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. 

Facebook announced on Thursday that it would ramp up its efforts to counter misinformation about climate change.

Entrepreneurs, intellectuals and presidential candidates have in recent years touted “universal basic income,” a cash stipend to everyone with no strings attached, as the answer to poverty, automation and the drudgery of work. It has never gotten off the ground in the U.S.

In a tweet on Tuesday, billionaire Elon Musk announced that he would be taking some time off from the social media platform.

The ranks of scientists who carry out environmental research, enforcement and other jobs fell in several agencies — sharply in some — under former President Trump, federal data shows.

SpaceX's cargo Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday with 4,400 pounds of scientific research and other cargo. 

The Food and Drug Administration will grant emergency-use authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday.

AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Thursday released data showing positive results of their Phase II COVID-19 vaccine trial.

Bill Gates and actor Rashida Jones kicked off a new limited podcast series on Monday and their guest is National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who will be discussing the coronavirus pandemic. 

Prescription drugmaker Moderna has received $1.1 billion in customer deposits for its COVID-19 vaccine, expected to be available next year

The vaccine, now in late-stage human trials aimed at showing its efficacy and safety, is a front-runner in the global sprint for a shot to protect lives and jump-start economies hobbled by the pandemic.

The company says it directly refers to politicians "from any party who deny or disregard the climate crisis and ignore science, not because they aren’t aware of it, but because their pockets are lined with money from oil and gas interests."

Gilead Sciences Inc will acquire biopharmaceutical company Immunomedics Inc for $21 billion in a deal that would further expand Gilead's portfolio of cancer treatments, the companies said on Sunday in a statement.

Speaking at a Thursday campaign event in battleground Pennsylvania, President Trump told the crowd of onlookers that he is "truly an environmentalist" before tearing into bans on single-use plastic products.

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk showcased pigs with computer brain chips at an event updating the world on his neuroscience technology program Neuralink.

The White House on Wednesday announced more than $1 billion in new funding for AI and quantum research.