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The hitchBOT, as its creators named it, had already successfully traversed Canada and Germany. This summer, relying on the kindness of strangers, it wanted to travel from Massachusetts to California.

The possibility that the Zika virus is linked to the birth defect microcephaly has sparked a public debate about women's reproductive rights in Latin America.

Publishers in France are altering the spellings of around 2,400 words in textbooks and will drop the hat-shaped circumflex accent in some cases. That's causing outrage.

[caption id="attachment_1283" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg"][/caption] [AUDIO] As Independence Day…

This week is the anniversary of a bottle designed to be "so distinctive that it could be recognized by touch alone and so unique that it could be identified when shattered on the ground."

On a recent fossil-hunting trip to the island, researchers stumbled across a cache of dinosaur footprints in what was once a lagoon.

"The London Marathon is a worldwide event. Let's take it out of this world," says British astronaut Tim Peake, who will run the course virtually, on a treadmill in the International Space Station.

The former secretary of state has been battling a controversy over her use of a private email server, but in the first Democratic debate, she was crisp and changed the conversation for a night.

The head of the Silicon Valley startup Matternet discusses the tests to figure out whether delivery drones could be cost-effective.

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch calls the deal "the largest settlement with a single entity in American history."