Joshua Reynolds’ 1776 ‘Portrait of Omai’ portrays a commoner from Tahiti as a nobleman, reflecting European fantasies and assumptions about Pacific cultures.
October 12, 2026A scholar of LGBTQ+ politics looks at how Democratic campaigns in Texas and Ohio are shifting on trans issues and what that could mean for control of Congress.
October 12, 2026For more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as windows into worlds beyond Earth.
October 12, 2026New genomic tools let scientists dig into the family trees of crops like rice, corn and adzuki beans to learn more about how they transitioned from wild plants to domesticated crops.
October 12, 2026Labeling medical test results as ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ helps clinicians make quick judgments when diagnosing patients. But this binary approach to interpreting tests can lead to fatal errors.
October 12, 2026Pope Leo announces he will undergo surgery to remove lung nodule
October 11, 2026Two Americans win Nobel prize for models to tackle economic downturns
October 12, 2026NASA may already have proof life once existed on another planet. Scientists might never get to find out
October 12, 2026Nikon revokes first prize in Small World in Motion video competition over AI use
October 12, 2026When AI goes rogue, who should get sued?
October 12, 2026Artificial Intelligence needs urgent global regulation with independent evaluators able to vet new developments, the president of Microsoft said, warning that AI currently
October 12, 2026Airbus has carried out the first test flight in Europe of a US-built drone that it hopes to team with Eurofighter jets, but without yet incorporating its
October 12, 2026By Nolan D.
October 12, 2026Strong investment in AI infrastructure is keeping global growth at around 3% with major benefits for Asia, but also foreshadows a "slow-moving
October 12, 2026Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said on Monday that capital will be the biggest constraint facing the company as AI development continues and likened some of the investment flow
October 12, 2026Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said on Monday that the token costs of Chinese frontier AI models have been lower and adoption has been "very fast".
October 12, 2026Artificial intelligence could help offset Asia's shrinking workforce as some countries' populations age, provided its adoption is scaled evenly across the region
October 12, 2026A brown bear bounds across the Siberian taiga before two hunters close in on their prey. Three shots ring out and the bear quickly drops dead in the long grass.
October 12, 2026German automaker Volkswagen reported a 14.3% decline in global deliveries in the third quarter on Monday, its sharpest drop in more than four years, as weakness in China, its
October 12, 2026South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations
October 12, 2026The European Union will use next month's COP31 climate summit to push for agreement on a "package" of efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions heating
October 12, 2026Hurricane Simon pounds Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm
October 11, 2026TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, will likely report a sixth consecutive quarter of record earnings, driven by
October 12, 2026Standing knee-deep in the Ken River, with mud smeared on her face to symbolize a connection to land her family has farmed for more
October 12, 2026American AI developers can give the British government early access to AI models for safety testing
October 12, 2026Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal valued at around $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
October 12, 2026By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY, Panama Oct 11 - Panama has recorded more than 200 aftershocks following Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake that damaged hundreds of homes and infrastructure across the
October 12, 2026A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. CNN's Patrick Oppmann shares what his family in Panama is experiencing.
October 10, 2026A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Videos show some buildings were also damaged.
October 10, 2026Man injured after being struck by ICE vehicle while fleeing on foot during enforcement operation, officials say
October 11, 2026After oil increasingly left the Gulf, Iran is trying to regain its stranglehold on shipping
October 11, 2026Halloween spider web decorations can trap and kill bats, experts warn
October 11, 2026A US-based team of marine archaeologists has set sail for a tiny island in the far western Pacific seeking to examine the latest tantalizing clue to one
October 10, 2026Indonesian authorities and conservation workers successfully moved eight orangutans to a safe location after the endangered primates' homes were destroyed by wildfires in
October 11, 2026President Donald Trump shows no signs of budging from a trade policy that many Americans don't like as the midterm elections loom
October 11, 2026Trump says Ukraine should get a new leader as he spars with Zelensky over US-Russia diesel deal
October 10, 2026At least 12 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in an attack on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, the deadliest in the
October 10, 2026AI is among 17 potentially ‘catastrophic threats’ that researchers say require targeted action
October 11, 2026Nvidia is in talks to deepen its investment in open-source startup Reflection AI or acquire it, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people with direct knowledge of the
October 11, 2026Panama's government has declared a state of emergency following two powerful earthquakes that shook the country
October 10, 2026The World Health Organization says it still doesn't know what caused the death of a young worker at a Russian lab focused on plague and other illnesses
October 11, 2026At least 4 dead as Isaias pushes further inland across Southeast
October 10, 2026The World Health Organization said on Saturday that it still does not know what caused the pneumonia that killed a Russian lab worker at an anti-plague research center in Siberia
October 10, 2026Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control
October 10, 20265 men died after being injured along a Michigan trail. Their deaths have raised questions about a possible serial killer
October 10, 2026An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said
October 10, 2026Adult acne can be just as bad as teenage breakouts, but there are ways to treat it
October 10, 2026Wildfires sweeping across Indonesia’s Borneo island have left endangered orangutans struggling to survive
October 10, 2026A drone strike blamed on Sudan's paramilitaries has killed 41 displaced people near the Ethiopian border
October 10, 2026Isaias has crashed into the U.S. Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane, bringing damaging winds and heavy rain to Alabama and the Florida Panhandle
October 09, 2026Kenya prepared for Ebola. It still slipped through — a warning of wider cross-border spread
October 10, 2026Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief, has won the Nobel Peace Prize
October 09, 2026An atmospheric scientist explains what’s been going on in the atmosphere, and how El Niño and the jet stream both play important roles.
October 09, 2026A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Panama, collapsing buildings and prompting evacuations
October 10, 2026Hurricane Isaias makes landfall on Florida Panhandle with destructive winds and storm surge
October 09, 2026Hurricane Isaias has been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, which still includes extremely dangerous winds and extensive damage
October 09, 2026By Max A.
October 10, 2026A contractor linked to Super Micro Computer has pleaded guilty in a scheme to illegally export computer servers containing advanced
October 10, 2026President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton accusing her of
October 10, 2026Powerful earthquake shakes Panama, followed by large aftershocks
October 10, 2026Amazon on Friday confirmed it was shuffling leadership in its Alexa division, a day after the company announced its first tablet computers featuring
October 10, 2026Lockheed Martin on Friday unveiled PAC-3 Edge, a missile interceptor designed to defend against hypersonic and advanced missile threats, as the US military looks to strengthen its
October 10, 2026An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, among a string of incidents the AI company disclosed on Friday detailing
October 10, 2026The Justice Department has moved to allow more people to purchase firearm suppressors — known as silencers — short-barreled rifles and other certain guns without registering them with the federal government following a court ruling that struck down provisions of a key law
October 10, 2026Tracking measles cases in the United States
February 13, 2026Wall Street ended higher on Friday as investors shifted their focus to next week, with third-quarter earnings season set to start and
October 09, 2026GSK will invest more than $800 million to expand its Upper Merion, Pennsylvania site into a new biopharmaceutical manufacturing and research hub, creating more than 300 jobs over the
October 10, 2026Fallen leaves provide essential winter habitat for native pollinators and provide natural mulch for the soil. If you have to clear some leaves, don’t get rid of them entirely: Move them out of sight.
October 10, 2026European Union rules setting guardrails on AI use adopted by the bloc two years ago are more than capable of tackling rogue agents, EU tech chief Henna
October 09, 2026The US FDA on Friday approved Japan's Asahi Kasei's drug for persistent herpes simplex virus sores in certain patients with weakened immune systems who have not responded to
October 09, 2026Republican nominees for Senate, the U.S. House and governor’s offices across the country are sidestepping President Trump or openly distancing themselves as they debate Democratic opponents before Election Day
October 09, 2026China and the European Union have reached a broad initial agreement to ease trade tensions
October 09, 2026At least eight people were injured when an Avianca flight encountered severe turbulence and had to make an emergency landing in Miami
October 09, 2026Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. Media witnesses observing from a separate room shared what they saw during the failed attempt.
October 08, 2026The US CDC on Friday reported 4,080 confirmed measles cases in the country as of October 8, up 193 from a week earlier.
October 09, 2026EV-maker Tesla has started calling its "Full Self-Driving" feature "Tesla Assisted Driving" on its European websites, dropping a name regulators have said was misleading, as CEO Elon
October 09, 2026The United States has pledged tens of millions of dollars to UN organisations in Geneva, sources said - a move diplomats said showed
October 09, 2026Vehicles were overturned and two people seriously injured on Friday when a tornado swept through the Sicilian city of Marsala and neighbouring towns,
October 09, 2026A friend of the suspected thief of a massive cache of personal data from the FBI says he begged the teenager not to do it.
October 09, 2026The FBI has arrested an accused co-conspirator of the hacking group ShinyHunters
October 09, 2026Hurricane Simon has strengthened to a Category 2 storm, approaching Mexico's coast as a major hurricane this weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center
October 09, 2026The shadowing of a Western satellite supporting Ukraine by a cluster of Russian military satellites earlier this year demonstrates
October 09, 2026China's leading AI developers have publicly disclosed model-specific safety-test results for only a small fraction of their releases, a report by
October 09, 2026SpaceX has agreed to acquire a nationwide portfolio of licenses in the low-band spectrum in a deal reportedly valued at $8 billion, as it looks to expand
October 09, 2026In a bone-dry valley in Hungary, forest workers and volunteers piled up terraces of logs and deadwood, hoping to catch any
October 09, 2026The Trump administration is pushing forward with a $46 billion border wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico
October 09, 2026A supersized El Niño’s decapitating winds and the Gulf of Mexico’s hot storm-fueling waters are battling for the core and future of land-approaching Hurricane Isaias and the storm’s tilt and eye show who’s winning
October 09, 2026Rocks deep underground can be used to hold heat until it’s needed.
October 09, 2026Engineers are using a unique test facility called the Wall of Wind to develop housing that’s both affordable and disaster-resistant. Their tests show the magnitude of the challenge.
October 09, 2026Bets on midterm endorsements, rallies, debates and dropouts raise insider trading concerns
October 09, 2026South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, who was awarded the Nobel peace prize on Friday, has been a judge on several international courts,
October 09, 2026OpenAI has fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the decision after the trio accused the company of prioritizing corporate interests over safety
October 09, 2026The US bull market is going strong as it nears its four-year anniversary, driven by an AI spending engine that is propelling corporate profits and
October 09, 2026President Donald Trump's looming changes to a rural energy program that has distributed billions of dollars in recent years will make it
October 09, 2026The US Department of Agriculture on Friday is expected to lower its estimate of how much of last year's corn harvest was fed to livestock after it reported a
October 09, 2026One of the world’s wealthiest cities is enduring the world’s most polluted air. Here’s why
October 09, 2026The decision was expected to take minutes.
October 09, 2026OpenAI fired three of its researchers last week after an investigation found they violated policies on handling sensitive information, the AI major said in a post on X on Friday.
October 09, 2026Australia's Firmus, a data centre operator backed by Nvidia, shelved its $5 billion IPO on Friday, adding to growing investor scrutiny of
October 09, 2026Sand-filled blast barriers and concrete shelters are multiplying at filling stations in Ukraine in a push by retailers to fortify their networks as Russia
October 09, 2026Once near extinction, these giant tortoises now outnumber people in the Seychelles, survey finds
October 09, 2026The view from Indian engineer Tushar Shetty's Mumbai apartment captures a tension playing out around the world as the
October 09, 2026SpaceX struck a deal on Thursday to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum portfolio, moving Elon Musk's satellite venture closer to mounting a
October 09, 2026The Chinese developer of ARTEX said they have converted the AI agent to a closed-source project after cybersecurity firms identified it as a tool used in a
October 09, 2026Explosions have been heard in Saudi Arabia's capital and at the Riyadh airport where flights were halted
October 08, 2026The brain’s acute response to the trauma of sexual assault can block a person’s ability to accurately assess what they experienced.
October 09, 2026Conservation groups sued the US government this week over plans to blast the cliff walls of an eastern Utah canyon and build an oil truck highway through an area
October 09, 2026Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI-powered
October 09, 2026Chatbots created by AI companion company Character.AI sometimes advised users to cut, starve or kill themselves, according to a new filing by Kentucky’s attorney
October 09, 2026Fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were pushed out over ‘suspicious’ circumstances
October 09, 2026US Health Secretary Robert F.
October 09, 2026RTX's Raytheon said on Thursday it won a multi-year US military contract worth up to $6.3 billion to produce and sustain Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptors, as the Pentagon
October 09, 2026Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature
October 08, 2026Federal budget deficit climbs to $2 trillion as fiscal jitters multiply
October 09, 2026Hurricane Isaias strengthens to Category 2 with evacuations underway in the Gulf states
October 09, 2026A U.S. Army report found systemic breakdowns that led to last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C. The military has also recommended numerous steps it should take to prevent future tragedies
October 08, 2026Loggerhead sea turtles have laid a record 4,292 nests on Georgia beaches this year, a significant rebound from 358 nests in 2004
October 09, 2026Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died
October 09, 2026Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order
October 09, 2026President Donald Trump celebrated tech billionaires such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at an event with arguably awkward timing
October 08, 2026RFK Jr. tasks researchers with studying vaccine injuries
October 09, 2026Nvidia-backed Iambic Therapeutics, which uses AI to develop drugs, is aiming to raise up to $159.4 million in its US IPO, as the biotech sector
October 08, 2026The four leaders of US President Donald Trump's AI task force are slated to meet on Thursday, task force vice chair Scott Kupor told Reuters, adding
October 09, 2026President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine expected Kyiv's European partners to join talks with the US in coming days.
October 09, 2026The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry gave a hand to handed molecules – and the processes chemists use to create them.
October 09, 2026Veterans in Des Moines receive AI glasses to improve daily life
October 09, 2026Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Thursday it could not yet determine whether equipment at a data centre hit by a Ukrainian drone attack could be restored.
October 08, 2026Unusual sighting! Young black bear spotted at Morro Rock
October 09, 2026Four astronauts are back on Earth after an eight-month stay at the International Space Station
October 08, 2026A witness says explosions have rocked Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, including a blast at the international airport
October 08, 2026US prosecutors on Thursday charged ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores with conspiring to torture political opponents and
October 08, 2026Global shares slid on Thursday as a mild pullback in sovereign bond yields was countered by a jump in oil
October 08, 2026A US Army investigative report into the collision of an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
October 08, 2026The Trump administration plans to complete a review of the abortion drug mifepristone by March 2027, according to a court filing, paving the way for potential
October 08, 2026Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo on Thursday said it has closed a $5 billion term loan, marking the company's first debt financing as it looks to expand its autonomous ride-hailing
October 08, 2026Alphabet's Google Cloud on Thursday introduced the Gemini agent, a single AI agent for work that can answer questions, handle tasks, create content and write code.
October 08, 2026Indiana 911 call center turns to AI to take non-emergency calls amid critical staffing shortage
October 08, 2026Nicolás Maduro and his wife face new charges over alleged torture of Americans
October 08, 2026California strawberry farmers have applied steam to fields as an alternative to chemical fumigants used to kill soil-borne diseases
October 08, 2026The Kremlin has long maintained a culture of secrecy when it comes to controlling public information, especially involving accidents -- from industrial disasters to health emergencies
October 08, 2026Trump stumps for embattled Texas Senate candidate at raucous rally
October 08, 2026Upscale AI, a startup valued at $2 billion in June, launched a networking platform on Thursday that allows customers to build data centers using AI chips from different suppliers.
October 08, 2026Russia said on Thursday it had completed health checks on all the contacts of a deceased lab worker at a plague research facility in Siberia, signalling a desire to draw a
October 08, 2026Drones hit a data centre owned by Russia's Yandex, the country's leading AI and technology company said on Thursday, in the first major
October 08, 2026Amazon on Thursday unveiled a slate of higher-end tablets that for the first time feature its Alexa+ voice assistant and run on Google's Android
October 08, 2026GlobalFoundries on Thursday said it has reached a $2 billion agreement to make a key component used to link AI processors and memory chips for TSMC at its New York facility.
October 08, 2026‘Everything is normal’: Life inside the Siberian cities at the center of a plague scare
October 08, 2026Don’t miss the Draconid meteor shower, a celestial event that won’t take all night
October 08, 2026If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers have even added extra seconds to clocks.
October 08, 2026AI models will refuse to say whether a person’s face looks gay or straight, but they will alter images of faces to fit stereotypes of gay and straight.
October 08, 2026A hurricane could cripple US refining when the world can least afford it
October 08, 2026Technology companies and utilities are increasingly exploring ways to make power-hungry data centers more flexible in when and how they consume electricity,
October 08, 2026Russia says no epidemic risk as WHO pushes for transparency on plague lab death
October 08, 2026The ‘glass skin’ Korean beauty trend has risks, experts warn
October 08, 2026Pneumonic plague, by the numbers
October 08, 2026‘Political chameleon’: How Mark Zuckerberg charmed Trump and got his way on AI
October 08, 2026Restricting global warming is a matter of survival and too many countries are shirking their responsibility to cut emissions, the official presiding over
October 08, 2026The suspect behind recent cyberattacks at South Korean banks was likely a China-based 26-year-old who used a Chinese-developed AI agent and
October 08, 2026New York Governor Kathy Hochul will seek federal assistance to tackle the measles outbreak in the state, including support from the US Department
October 08, 2026A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast
October 08, 2026A Russian official has sought to turn the page on the death of a worker at a plague research lab in Siberia that sparked global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague
October 08, 2026Hedge fund WorldQuant said on Wednesday registrations for this year's flagship global quant research contest have almost doubled from a year earlier, as increased adoption of AI has
October 08, 2026A high-velocity drone launched at a disused Dutch airbase by the North Sea roars through the clouds and intercepts
October 08, 2026Butterfly Effect, the parent company of AI startup Manus, said on Thursday it had completed a more than $500 million funding round as the firm resumed independent operations after
October 08, 2026This year's El Niño will intensify before peaking in December and is nearly 100% certain to last until February 2027, the World Meteorological Organization said in its
October 08, 2026US has lost or sustained damage to 81 military aircraft worth up to $3.3 billion in Iran war, congressional report says
October 08, 2026Millions of hectares of protected tropical ecosystems are at risk from overlapping mining concessions and oil and gas blocks, researchers said on Thursday
October 08, 2026The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year
October 08, 2026Isaias rapidly intensifies into season’s first Atlantic hurricane as Gulf Coast braces for landfall
October 07, 2026IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.
October 08, 2026Asian shares slid on Thursday as strains in sovereign bond markets were aggravated by reports some major tech companies were seeking to raise billions in debt
October 08, 2026The US transportation department said late on Wednesday it approved a five-year exemption for Aurora and other self-driving trucking companies from
October 08, 2026President Donald Trump has turned emergency relief into a campaign talking point as a major hurricane approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast
October 08, 2026Blue Origin is likely to pursue an initial public offering in the coming years, billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday, after the space company raised $10 billion from
October 08, 2026Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected its quarterly profit would top 100 trillion won, a world first for a technology company, estimating
October 08, 2026Sri Lanka is facing severe drought, leaving reservoirs dry and farming communities struggling
October 08, 2026The families of thousands missing after Nepal's catastrophic floods have mixed feelings about the government's decision to stop search efforts
October 07, 2026Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died
October 08, 2026TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions of the tool, according
October 08, 2026Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before slamming into the southern US
October 07, 2026Some of the guardrails for children that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product do not work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children
October 08, 2026Christa Pike is “angry and confused” after surviving an attempt to execute her in Tennessee
October 07, 2026Chipmaker Wolfspeed said on Wednesday it has received a conditional loan commitment for up to $1.5 billion from the US Department of Defense to expand domestic production of silicon
October 08, 2026From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in the body depending on how they’re arranged in space.
October 08, 2026Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Erica Schwartz said
October 07, 2026Russia's health regulator said on Wednesday there were no risks of an epidemic breaking out in Siberia after a plague institute
October 07, 2026US President Donald Trump will speak at a White House event on scientific discovery on Thursday, according to a social media post from his tech adviser
October 08, 2026The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it will vote on October 29 to bar all Chinese labs from testing electronic devices such as
October 08, 2026Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday an AI coding model that can run directly on personal computers and new security technology to prevent AI agents from
October 07, 2026Humpback whales fill Monterey Bay, offering perfect whale-watching conditions
October 08, 2026Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in its Claude 5.5 family in the past month, expanding its artificial intelligence lineup ahead of a planned IPO.
October 08, 2026Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee
October 07, 2026Teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on ChatGPT, while less than 2% of them interact with the chatbot for over three straight hours,
October 07, 2026Unknown virus leaves some Iowa patients sick for weeks
October 08, 2026Florida asked a state judge on Wednesday to order changes to Instagram and Facebook to better protect young users, pressing ahead with a lawsuit accusing parent
October 07, 2026FireFly Robotics, which makes electric turfgrass harvesters and autonomous golf-course mowers, on Wednesday filed to go public through a direct listing.
October 07, 2026Government officials in the United States can declare a state of emergency before severe weather events like hurricanes or floods strike an area
October 07, 2026Twin Cities boy gets Star Wars-themed wheelchair costume
October 08, 2026This island was home to the planet’s largest penguin colony. Here’s why it just lost that title
October 07, 2026The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with AI-generated voices
October 07, 2026Off-grid solar power is spreading across Brazil’s Amazon, helping remote communities prepare for severe drought while replacing costly, polluting diesel generators
October 06, 2026Scientists Henri B
October 07, 2026By Michael S.
October 07, 2026The French government said on Wednesday it was pausing the use of stun grenades in its policing of student protests, after a 15-year-old
October 07, 2026Pope Leo urged an assembly of some 150 bishops from around the world to find "renewed ways" of helping modern families at the start of a week-long
October 07, 2026The US Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that it will vote on October 29 on whether to advance a new auction of wireless spectrum to
October 07, 2026Checklists, masks and mystery: What we know about the plague scare in Russia
October 07, 2026Huge companies have dominated AI. Two startups with an entirely different approach think they can do better
October 07, 2026The US government and tech heavyweights Meta Platforms and Google parent Alphabet are joining nonprofit Biohub to build open datasets to train AI models for biological
October 07, 2026For Paige Hansen, changing the food system starts with changing the ingredients
October 07, 2026Modern AI owes its existence to both cognitive and computer science. What you envision as its origin story can influence how you understand what large language models can do.
October 07, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund says countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the AI boom and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine
October 07, 2026Ohio, North Carolina and Michigan have open seats on their state supreme court, and these hotly contested races will influence how those courts rule in several high-stakes cases.
October 07, 2026By the time Kenya's first Ebola patient was whisked to a hospital by relatives straight after landing at Nairobi
October 07, 2026Life sciences company Danaher said on Wednesday it plans to launch its first AI-powered autonomous research lab early next year to make drug discovery and development faster and more
October 07, 2026Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday welcomed Germany's backing for the US automaker's driver-assistance software system, as he seeks Europe-
October 07, 2026Existential and financial risks posed by the artificial intelligence boom were top of mind for investors and policymakers at two conferences in Singapore
October 07, 2026Russian authorities are keeping a tight lid on information about last week’s suspicious death of a lab worker in Siberia that has been surrounded by secrecy and claims that it could have been caused by pneumonic plague
October 07, 2026Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for solving a long-standing
October 07, 2026The Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading rapidly to new hot spots where patients have little or no support
October 07, 2026AI is quickly changing. These tips from university librarians can help people keep pace with the shifts as they approach their research.
October 07, 2026‘Use it or lose it’ isn’t quite true when it comes to the health benefits of exercise. Cells across the body retain a memory of training that lasts longer than once thought.
October 07, 2026Most US voters think President Donald Trump's administration and Congress are not taking the risks of AI seriously enough and want the
October 07, 2026In a small outdoor plot in Fargo, North Dakota, plant breeder Carrie Dottey crouched over a tiny flower on a leafy green soybean plant,
October 07, 2026NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of
October 07, 2026Facing Russian stonewalling, Trump admin ramps up pressure for info as it struggles to plan for potential plague fallout
October 07, 2026Novartis’ experimental del-desiran for a rare type of muscular dystrophy was expected to be a winner, with the Swiss company's CEO predicting annual peak sales of $5
October 07, 2026Russia informed the World Health Organization about the death of a laboratory worker at a Siberian plague research institute last week in line with established procedures,
October 07, 2026Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for unraveling mystery of mirror molecules
October 07, 2026The global economy is under threat from persistently high energy prices, record public debt and risks from the AI investment boom, International Monetary Fund
October 07, 2026AMD CEO Lisa Su said on Wednesday that the US chipmaker continues to explore partnership opportunities with Samsung Electronics in the memory and foundry businesses.
October 07, 2026The World Health Organization on Wednesday recommended diet, exercise and counseling over popular weight-loss drugs in its first global guidelines
October 07, 2026Russia fired 70 missiles and also drones in one of its biggest strikes at Ukraine, targeting the Ukrainian energy sector and killing at least 11 people across the country,
October 07, 2026Samsung Electronics is expected to report a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter operating profit, driven by robust AI demand, though analysts have cut
October 07, 2026Two South Korean megachurches are investigating suspected cyberattacks that may have exposed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of congregants, with evidence
October 07, 2026Global governments must increase efforts to reduce emissions because the planet is "hurtling past" a critical temperature target that would restrain sea
October 07, 2026Boston Dynamics, a humanoid robot maker owned by Hyundai Motor Group, said it had appointed Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer, effective October 7.
October 07, 2026Japan's Rapidus, with $15 billion in state backing, is tying up with chip design firms as it seeks to answer a major question hanging over
October 07, 2026Scientists name ancient crocodile species found in rock that built the Great Sphinx
October 07, 2026The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it is proposing to streamline regulations for commercial space launches and re-entries.
October 07, 2026Russia should share more information about the death of a plague laboratory worker who died last week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday, in an incident
October 06, 2026The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics recognizes Francis Halzen’s vision in building an unusual telescope in Antarctica, as well as the neutrino discoveries it’s made.
October 07, 2026Companies spanning tech giant Microsoft to grocer Kroger have announced layoffs this year, deepening concerns that AI adoption will upend established industries, with job losses
July 06, 2026A cyberattack on Arizona’s court system has compromised personal information for more than a million people
October 07, 2026Broken bathrooms force American Airlines flight to divert for urgent landing
October 07, 2026Getting vaccinated is the best way to reduce your risk of severe illness and complications from the flu.
October 07, 2026The White House is monitoring Russia's potential pneumonic plague as unofficial reports reveal that close to 200 people are now under observation. This comes after the death of a researcher who worked at a Russian lab dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases. Infectious disease and biosecurity expert Dr. Ashish Jha calls out Russia's lack of transparency, telling Erin Burnett, "until we get more information, I think we have to assume that there is something more going on than what we're seeing."
October 04, 2026Tropical depression forms in the Gulf, forecast to strengthen into first hurricane of Atlantic season
October 05, 2026The US Justice Department directed its employees on Tuesday to use the words "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" when referring
October 07, 2026A Belgian-born scientist has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved
October 06, 2026McDonald’s is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust laws because it shares nonpublic data with competing franchisees
October 07, 2026The primary Senate Republican super PAC is sending reinforcements to South Carolina as President Donald Trump prepares to visit and boost Sen. Darline Graham
October 07, 2026Gov. Kathy Hochul declares state of emergency over measles outbreak in rural New York
October 07, 2026The amount of oil in storage that is accessible to the global market is running low, industry executives said at a forum
October 06, 2026Information released about cybersecurity incident involving South Carolina schools
October 07, 2026Bulgaria’s prime minister says that two commercial vessels have been struck by drones in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea
October 06, 2026A lawyer for the Trump administration told a federal appeals court on Tuesday that a judge had improperly hamstrung an influential vaccine advisory panel by blocking
October 07, 2026A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances on October 2,
October 06, 2026Kenya confirmed its first Ebola case on Tuesday after a Kenyan citizen who had travelled from Democratic Republic of Congo died in Nairobi.
October 06, 2026Anthropic is expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its most powerful AI models with fewer safeguards, after its Project Glasswing initiative
October 07, 2026Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and Science Chair for Save America Movement, joins Omar Jimenez to discuss what we know about the worker at the Russian plague lab who is dead of an "unknown" infection.Editor's note: This video has been adjusted to clarify that Angela Rasmussen is the Science Chair for Save America Movement.
October 04, 2026Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday after recovering earlier losses, as the market weighed increases in Middle Eastern crude exports and a planned
October 06, 2026The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday that it will rewrite its vehicle lighting standards to address concerns about
October 06, 2026US power consumption will rise to record highs in 2026 and 2027, driven by AI-hungry data centers and electrification, the US Energy Information
October 06, 2026A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi over the weekend has become Kenya’s first confirmed case of Ebola and the country’s first death from the disease in the fast-moving outbreak
October 06, 2026Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation on Tuesday into whether Fruit of the Loom and Hanes use toxic chemicals in producing children's
October 06, 2026Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unexpected embrace of artificial intelligence has rankled some of his allies in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement
October 06, 2026Senior officials in India and the United States have indicated long-running efforts to finalise a bilateral trade agreement have
October 06, 2026Computer-memory company Netlist announced on Tuesday that Micron would pay $600 million to settle a patent dispute over Micron's memory chips.
October 06, 2026The Belgian-American scientist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an Antarctic
October 06, 2026Investigators to search basement of Olney 'house of horrors' for evidence of missing women feared dead
October 06, 2026The World Health Organization says that a possible case of pneumonic plague in Russia poses a "very low" risk outside the country
October 06, 2026Whistleblower says Trump demanded FBI probe into protesters over a TikTok he saw
October 06, 2026The benchmark S&P 500 index briefly hit an all-time high on Tuesday as optimism surrounding the AI trade and hopes of strong corporate earnings lifted technology stocks, further
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