The giant, U-shaped tube is designed to form a garbage-corralling barrier propelled by wind and waves. Its creator hopes to remove half the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.

The video captures a remarkable scene: dozens and dozens dolphins, breaking through the surface and plunging down again, under skies the same gray as the water.

The league had come under fire for the pay gap in its prize money. "I honestly didn't see it coming," said Carissa Moore, a three-time world champion.

Fifty years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell saw a blip in the data from a radio telescope she helped build. The discovery of pulsars was "one of the biggest surprises in the history of astronomy."

The landmark decision overturns a long-standing provision in the country's penal code that dates back to British colonial rule and outlawed all anal and oral sex.

The company was once valued at $9 billion. Founder Elizabeth Holmes and another former executive are facing criminal charges, and Theranos says it does not have the cash to pay shareholders.

The sequined shoes were pilfered from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005. Investigators had pursued a range of leads — including an abandoned Minnesota mine — ever since.

A study of 5 million years of mollusks suggests that laziness could be a good survival strategy: species that have gone extinct had higher metabolic rates than the ones that exist today.

The French Tennis Federation's president reportedly said attire like Williams' Wakanda-inspired outfit will no longer be accepted. "I think that sometimes we've gone too far," he declared.

The Arizona senator said last July that he had an aggressive glioblastoma. "The progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict," his family said in a statement.

Genomic sequencing reveals new evidence of interbreeding among different groups of our ancient relatives. A scientist calls the find "almost too lucky to be true."

As summer draws to a close, conservationists are getting ready for the annual Monarch butterfly migration. One scientist thinks the best way to help the migration is to create more Monarch habitats in big cities.

Greenhouse gas concentrations reached a record high. Global sea level was the highest on record, too. NOAA's State of the Climate report points to the urgency of addressing climate change.

Apple growing is a ruthless business obsessed with good looks. Higher temperatures affect every part of of the fruit's life cycle, from more pests to changing color — and can even give them sunburn.

While it's difficult to attribute individual events to climate change, scientists say global warming makes extreme weather more common.

The tournament so far has been full of surprises, with Senegal and Japan emerging as fan favorites. Here are a few stories we're following.

If this weekend's big matches had one lesson, it was that even great teams don't win every game. The Davids were stronger than expected, and the Goliaths were weighed down by sky-high expectations.

You'd be forgiven for confusing airport tarmacs of Russia for the catwalks of Milan: From street-ready kits to swank trophy cases to entire teams in matching suits, the World Cup aims to impress.

McDonald's also says it will test alternatives to plastic straws in some restaurants in the U.S. and several other countries later this year.

The directors of the foundation named in the suit are President Trump and three of his children. The suit alleges unlawful political coordination and "self-dealing" that benefits Trump businesses.