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FILE - A fisherman walks to his boat in Santa Rosa, Peru, an island on the Amazon River on Aug. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Well-preserved Amazon rainforest on Indigenous lands can protect people from diseases, study finds

8:07 AM on Thursday, September 11

A new study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences of multiple diseases in the regions around them

This photo provided by researchers in September 2024 shows a mating pair of wild Octopus americanus, one displaying the arm action "raise." (Chelsea Bennice via AP)

How to use 8 arms? Octopuses tend to explore with their front limbs

8:01 AM on Thursday, September 11

Scientists have discovered that octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they more often use their front arms for tasks

Petitioner Yang Guoliang, whose family has been trapped in an increasingly tight noose of surveillance for the past 16 years, rests in his bedroom at his home in Changzhou, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Takeaways from AP's investigation into how US tech companies enabled China's digital police state

9:31 PM on Monday, September 8

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

Petitioner Yang Guoliang looks through documents at his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China's digital police state

9:30 PM on Monday, September 8

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

Security cameras are seen by a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong near Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

How the AP uncovered US big tech's role in China's digital police state

9:12 PM on Monday, September 8

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

Petitioner Yang Guoliang pulls back the blackout curtain used to provide privacy from nearby police security cameras and lights during an interview at his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

9:04 PM on Monday, September 8

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

This handout photo provided by the University of Maine and taken in July, 2025 shows an Asian longhorned tick. (Griffin Dill/University of Maine via AP)

Invasive, disease-carrying tick found in Maine, the farthest northeast it has been spotted

10:25 AM on Monday, September 8

Researchers say they have confirmed the presence of an invasive species of tick in Maine for the first time, marking the farthest northeast in the U.S. where the pest has been discovered

A person eats ice cream Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

As world gets hotter, Americans are turning to more sugar, study finds

8:02 AM on Monday, September 8

A new study finds that climate change is increasing sugar consumption in the United States

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