[ May 6, 2016 ] Falcon 9 succeeds in middle-of-the-night launch and landing Falcon 9 and other top stories.

• [ May 6, 2016 ] Falcon 9 succeeds in middle-of-the-night launch and landing Falcon 9

  

  SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks due east from Cape Canaveral after lifting off at 1:21 a.m. EDT (0521 GMT). Credit: SpaceX A Japanese communications rode a Falcon 9 rocket into space from Cape Canaveral early Friday, reaching an on-target orbit as the launcher’s first stage booster nailed a high-speed landing on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean, logging another achievement for SpaceX’s cost-cutting reuse initiative. The successful satellite deployment marks the Falcon 9’s fifth consecutive fla..

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• US court scraps Facebook's appeal against lawsuit

  

  Facebook Inc. suffered an initial setback when a U.S. court dismissed its appeal to quash a lawsuit that alleged unlawful collection and storage of users' biometric data through the tech giant's face-recognition software. Facebook claimed that Illinois ...

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• Six new fossil species form 'snapshot' of primates stressed by ancient climate change

  

  A left lower jaw of Yunnanadapis folivorus, one of six new fossil species found in southern China. Credit: University of Kansas. In a study to be published this week in the journal Science, researchers describe unearthing a "mother lode" of a half ...

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• Got unlimited data? Netflix now lets you get the highest quality on mobile

  

  Boost your video quality in Netflix's mobile app. Netflix has updated its iOS and Android applications to let customers adjust streaming quality on mobile networks so that users with high data caps or unlimited data can choose higher-quality video. Netflix sets its default mobile bitrate at 600kbps, limiting resolution to about 360p on AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and most other carriers. This helps customers stay under restrictive data caps, but the one-size-fits-all policy prevented customers f..

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• Scientists double life expectancy for embryos in petri dishes, raising ethical concerns

  

  When scientists grow human embryos for lab research, they end their experiments at the 14-day mark. Until now, these internationally accepted guidelines (and the laws formed around them) have been largely self-regulating: The record for in-vitro gestation was just nine days, and most labs struggled to keep embryos alive longer then a week.But now a pair of research teams from The Rockefeller University and the University of Cambridge have both kept embryos alive nearly twice as long. And since ..

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