JAKARTA, Indonesia - The most threatened tortoise in the world is being sold openly at a plant and animal exposition in the heart of Indonesia's capital, highlighting concerns about the rampant — and growing — illegal pet trade. The country has become a...
How Netflix Scores Top Movies and TV for Streaming BY Dan NosowitzToday Streaming video is Netflix's future--it's no secret, not to their customers, not to the press, and not to their peers. But the company's difficulties in securing top-quality movies and TV shows from...
For generations of pre-med students, three things have been as certain as death and taxes: organic chemistry, physics and the Medical College Admission Test, known by its dread-inducing acronym, the MCAT. Michael Appleton for The New YorkTimes Students in Mount Sinai’s...
PERTH — Australia's government expanded its ambitious plan to bring broadband to much of the vast country, adding 300,000 homes and businesses to the coverage area Friday in hopes of winning votes in next month's federal election. The opposition has already...
For generations of pre-med students, three things have been as certain as death and taxes: organic chemistry, physics and the Medical College Admission Test, known by its dread-inducing acronym, MCAT. So it came as a shock to Elizabeth Adler when she discovered, through...
ARLINGTON - A local environmental effort has begun with a big mandate: to rethink how to make the air healthy for people. Past attempts to cut smog in North Texas have yielded some success - levels are down, especially since 2007 - but not nearly enough, two decades of...
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily excluded "critical habitat" that could be occupied by the elusive Canada lynx....
A man passes a logo of the Black Hat technology conference in Las Vegas... LAS VEGAS (AP) - Researchers have uncovered new ways that criminals can spy on Internet...
NEW ORLEANS - A procedure intended to ease the job of plugging the blownout gulf well for good could start as early as the weekend, the government's point man for the spill response said yesterday. The so-called static kill can begin when crews finish work on drilling...
WASHINGTON- A team of federal investigators known as the "BP squad'' is assembling in New Orleans to conduct a wide-ranging criminal inquiry that will focus on at least three companies and examine whether their cozy relations with federal regulators contributed to the...