Science & Technology

GM’s newest vehicle: Off-road, self-driving rover for moon

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — General Motors is teaming up with Lockheed Martin to produce the ultimate off-road, self-driving, electric vehicles — for the moon....

Ford: Electric vehicles to be 40% of global sales by 2030

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DETROIT — Ford expects 40% of its global sales to be battery-electric vehicles by 2030 as it adds billions to what it's spending to...

Cyprus says people under 50 should use mRNA-based vaccines

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NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cypriot health authorities on Wednesday advised people aged under 50 to use the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines that are based on...

Indian economist Amartya Sen receives top Spanish award

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MADRID — Amartya Kumar Sen, an Indian economist and philosopher who studied the causes of famines, will be recognized with this year's Princess of...

Report: EPA officials improperly influenced dicamba decision

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O'FALLON, Mo. — Environmental Protection Agency officials improperly influenced a decision to re-approve use of dicamba, a herbicide blamed for crop damage in hundreds...

Amazon to buy MGM, studio behind James Bond and ‘Shark Tank’

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NEW YORK — Amazon is going Hollywood. The online shopping giant...

Farmers buy land, make camp by shut Oregon irrigation canal

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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Two farmers with ties to anti-government activist Ammon Bundy have purchased land by a shut-off irrigation canal in Oregon that...

New wolf killing laws prompt push to revive protections

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BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildlife advocates pressed the Biden administration on Wednesday to revive federal protections for gray wolves across the Northern Rockies after Republican...

Stephen Hawking’s archive, office acquired for UK public

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LONDON — The Cambridge University library and London’s Science Museum said Wednesday they have acquired a large collection of items belonging to late physicist...

Mexico: Builders bulldozing outskirts of Teotihuacan ruins

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MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government said Tuesday that a private building project is destroying part of the outskirts of the pre-Hispanic ruin site...