Brazilian authorities are investigating whether a recent surge in Amazon wildfires was orchestrated
October 15, 2026The growing availability of these substances is worsening the already bad problem of sexual assault on campus.
October 15, 2026Optogenetics, a field that started with an algae gene, is shedding light on new treatments for eye and neuropsychiatric conditions.
October 15, 2026Having a human “in the loop” overseeing when an AI makes a decision is important, but what happens to that responsible human over time when the AI gets it right over and over again?
October 15, 2026Across three countries, people agree that teaching is centered on the teacher-student relationship. But they don’t agree on which profession teaching most resembles.
October 15, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Africa department says African economies have managed to weather the energy crisis brought on by the Iran war
October 15, 2026The former leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, was sentenced to 15 years in jail on Thursday for
October 15, 2026Months of sustained wildfires in Indonesia have caused a spike in respiratory illnesses and blanketed several Southeast Asian countries in hazardous haze, with Singapore
October 15, 2026When the oil supertanker Esteem Explorer sails from the United States to Japan in late November, loaded with about 2
October 15, 2026Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s call for a “quieter” central bank is facing pushback from colleagues who see
October 15, 2026Chinese tech giant ByteDance's AI research unit Seed has created an Alignment & Preparedness team and launched a global drive to recruit 10 researchers,
October 15, 2026AI industry leaders are split over how fast companies should develop the increasingly powerful technology, as Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SpaceX's Elon Musk
September 14, 2026Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is exploring potential investments in Texas to expand chip production in the U.S. The company says it is open to collaborating with Elon Musk’s planned “Terafab” chip manufacturing complex in Texas
October 15, 2026North Korea has conducted its first missile test from underwater in nearly three years, in what experts say likely involved a yet-to-be-deployed submarine that the North had said is designed to launch nuclear weapons
October 15, 2026Scientists knew the Doomsday Glacier was melting. They didn’t realize how ‘aggressively’
October 15, 2026Russia has nearly finished building a major new base for launching jet-powered drones in just six weeks, according to defence experts and
October 15, 2026Indonesian authorities said on Thursday they would consider offers of foreign assistance to tackle the country's biggest forest fires in over a decade after President
October 15, 2026Canadian AI lab Cohere said on Thursday it had signed a letter of intent to buy Aisle, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup that uses AI to detect
October 15, 2026The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil subpoenas to AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about safety incidents, Axios reported, citing a person familiar with
October 15, 2026At the offices of Chinese startup DexForce, a screen shows a virtual robot placing objects on a table.
October 15, 2026In 1899, the Mt Lyell mine in Tasmania produced some 9,500 metric tons of copper.
October 15, 2026TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced chips, struck a note of caution for 2027 on Thursday due to macroeconomic uncertainties,
October 15, 2026Both climate change and a strong El Niño combined to cause Hurricane Polo to explosively intensify from a tropical storm to a Category 5 monster in just 24 hours
October 15, 2026The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a global standard setter, has called for greater human oversight of agentic AI in final guidance for banks and other firms on managing
October 15, 2026US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans for what he described as a new defense "super range" in Montana for testing advanced military technologies
October 15, 2026South Korea's SK Hynix is seeking approval from Washington to export US chipmaking equipment to China to increase production there
October 15, 2026Anthropic told prospective investors on Wednesday that revenue in the third quarter surged 45% from the prior quarter, two
October 15, 2026The British government said on Thursday it will provide £17 million ($22.45 million) in funding for repairs to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine damaged by a
October 15, 2026Rocket Lab on Wednesday said the inaugural launch of its new, larger Neutron rocket was delayed until next year, sending the space firm's shares down about 6% in extended trading.
October 15, 2026Greenland contradicts Trump’s claim that ‘massive’ oil and gas drilling is about to begin there
October 14, 2026OpenAI accuses former employee of leaking intel on AI device to Apple
October 15, 2026US stocks fell sharply on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq clocking its biggest fall in three months, on surprisingly strong inflation data and
October 15, 2026Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro was seen slightly ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva heading into the October 25 presidential runoff, a Quaest poll showed on
October 15, 2026U.S. President Donald Trump says “massive” oil, gas and mineral exploration is set to begin in Greenland
October 14, 2026Oil prices rose on Wednesday after the Houthis attacked Saudi Aramco's headquarters and Iran said it was deploying new tactics to target ships and keep oil
October 14, 2026Ukraine says Starlink restriction disrupting military as Musk claims US controls those systems
October 14, 2026A federal judge has extended an order blocking the Trump administration from banning reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House
October 14, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss cybersecurity with top officials on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, describing it as an increasingly pressing issue but denying
October 14, 2026Recent hacking incidents perpetrated by AI agents are "early warning shots", and the world could soon face major incidents if systems are
October 14, 2026Pollution readings in Singapore reached their highest level this year on Wednesday while East Timor shut its schools for three days in response to
October 14, 2026Europe leads the world on AI rules. So why is it missing from the AI safety debate?
October 14, 2026Space startups attracted a record $20.8 billion in funding in the third quarter, as investors poured money into launch providers, manufacturing and other
October 14, 2026Chinese state buyers purchased 8-10 Panamax cargoes of US soybeans this week, the first such deals since the September summit between Presidents Donald
October 14, 2026The chief financial officer of top computer chip equipment manufacturer ASML said on Wednesday the company opposes a proposal by US Congress to limit the
October 14, 2026Poland's foreign minister asked Elon Musk if he was "playing politics" with Starlink in Ukraine on Wednesday, after Kyiv said Space X had introduced a limit on some services
October 14, 2026Barbados is joining a group of countries calling for the establishment of an international panel to address inequality, at a time when heightened geopolitical
October 14, 2026Google DeepMind and Alphabet's cloud service Google Cloud will provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with direct access to their frontier models, together with
October 14, 2026Denmark's foreign ministry said on Wednesday if the US wished to explore Greenland's resources, it would have to do so within the framework of the
October 14, 2026US chipmaker Nvidia has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research, bolstering the country's ambitions to
October 14, 2026SpaceX has introduced a limit on some Starlink services in Ukraine, disrupting combat drone missions for which the technology is crucial, officials said on
October 14, 2026Former US Vice President Kamala Harris urged governments and technology companies on Wednesday to urgently put safeguards in place for artificial
October 14, 2026China's exports of rare earths in September rose 6.7% from the prior year, customs data showed on Wednesday, as overseas buying improved after a summer lull.
October 14, 2026Iowa is grappling with water quality and cancer rates, bringing these issues to the forefront of state politics
October 14, 2026Eight endangered orangutans rescued from areas of Indonesia’s Borneo ravaged by wildfires have been released into a protected forest
October 13, 2026Iran is deploying new tactics to target ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to keep oil
October 14, 2026Mohammed Saber and his family rely on a solar kit for electricity at the bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack they call home at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
October 14, 2026Republican Rep. Mike Collins attacked Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff over campaign donations from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who has acknowledged meeting Jeffrey Epstein, while Ossoff countered accusing Collins of voting against releasing Epstein-related records, and helping to "cover up" evidence.
October 14, 2026Anthropic asked a US appeals court on Tuesday to reconsider a ruling that upheld the Pentagon's decision to label the AI company as a national security supply chain risk over a
October 14, 2026While lung cancer rates have decreased by 43% in men, they have risen by 79% in women. Broader screening guidelines and recognizing early symptoms can help address the changing face of lung cancer.
October 14, 2026US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington was still sharing intelligence with Ukraine, even as Kyiv reported new Russian
October 13, 2026Apple on Tuesday unveiled a smart-home hub that taps iPhone user data to make Siri more personal, but promised privacy safeguards designed to keep that
October 14, 2026The leap second is on the chopping block — and timekeeping could change forever
October 13, 2026Some advocates for older Americans want the government to change the index used for this adjustment to one more tailored to their spending patterns.
October 14, 2026The first big batch of summertime profit reports from U.S. companies made waves on Wall Street after topping analysts’ expectations, but many canceled each other out
October 13, 2026Tencent Holdings has raised about $5.7 billion through US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings on Tuesday, drawing combined
October 13, 2026US chipmaker Nvidia has agreed to buy stakes in French technology startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, the two French companies said on Tuesday.
October 13, 2026World stocks edged lower on Tuesday as concerns about AI spending weighed on chipmakers and investors looked ahead to more US corporate
October 13, 2026The head of MI5 says Iran is trying to hit military sites in the U.K. and the suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run military air base in September is not unique
October 13, 2026A selloff in AI supplier shares on Tuesday is the strongest sign to date that the mood on the trade of the decade is shifting, with growing worries that
October 13, 2026Cyberattacks have disrupted European supermarket chains, causing refrigeration systems to overheat at hundreds of stores in France
October 13, 2026Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday as hopes the US-Russia diesel deal could free up more supplies from Moscow offset attacks in Saudi Arabia and Yemen that could
October 13, 2026French investigators on Tuesday were hunting the hackers who seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets in a
October 13, 2026CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids
October 13, 2026Wyoming wildlife managers report no black-footed ferrets are being detected in the Absaroka Range foothills near Meeteetse, a key conservation area for the species
October 13, 2026The dollar slipped from an 18-month high on Tuesday as oil prices retreated and investors reassessed the AI-fueled rally that has supported demand for US
October 13, 2026Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said on Tuesday it would be interesting to watch for political volatility around AI centers ahead of
October 13, 2026A new warning about artificial intelligence from Anthropic caused a stir in cybersecurity circles on Tuesday, a day after the company
October 13, 2026President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States continues to share intelligence with Ukraine and is working with both Kyiv
October 13, 2026Why billions spent on defense haven’t shielded Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
October 13, 2026A big cooldown will drop temperatures to their lowest levels in months
October 13, 2026An influential Hindu nationalist group close to India's ruling party urged the government on Tuesday to block Elon Musk's Starlink from launching
October 13, 2026Iran is stepping up attempts to hit harder targets such as military sites in Britain and Russia is increasing its hybrid warfare against Ukraine's allies,
October 13, 2026Qantas plane grounded after reported bedbug outbreak
October 13, 2026Apple just announced a new gadget that could be key to its AI push
October 13, 2026Quality, rather than discounts or environmental benefits, is what’s needed to encourage shoppers to consider odd-shaped produce.
October 13, 2026Sexual enhancement supplements often contain unlisted prescription drugs that pose serious health risks.
October 13, 2026UK in ‘new era of national security’ as AI supercharges rising threats, security chief warns
October 13, 2026President Donald Trump said on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran "at all," even as US
October 13, 2026Opposition to data centers is widespread across the US, uniting people despite other differences on political and environmental issues.
October 13, 2026Climate activists in South Africa have picketed outside the African Energy Week conference, demanding an end to new oil and gas exploration across the continent
October 13, 2026India's "cockroach" youth movement leaders were detained on Tuesday after they jumped barricades to enter a historic Delhi site popular for protests, demanding that the
October 13, 2026Could GLP-1 drugs be anti-aging medications?
October 13, 2026The BlackRock Investment Institute said it had downgraded its view on US stocks to neutral, citing volatility around AI, and upgraded Treasuries, preferring short-term
October 13, 2026Russia's invasion of Ukraine is reshaping NATO's defence technology priorities, with counter-drone systems and space-based surveillance emerging as
October 13, 2026While no person has ever set foot on Mars, humankind has managed to conduct extensive explorations of the surface of Earth's planetary neighbor using
October 13, 2026Banking regulators are stepping up efforts to contain growing AI risks, six people familiar with the matter
October 13, 2026Nvidia's share of China's market for data-centre AI chips fell to 34% in the first half of 2026, as US export controls restricted supplies of its products and domestic
October 13, 2026The Trump administration opposes "coercion and aggression" by China against countries for exercising their sovereign rights, the US State Department said,
October 13, 2026Japan's NTT Data Group, a unit of telecommunications giant NTT, is in the final stages of talks to build a data centre in Osaka, western Japan, for US AI company Anthropic,
October 13, 2026Hurricane Simon is still pounding Mexico's Pacific coast as it remains offshore
October 13, 2026Anthropic said on Monday new measures designed to prevent rivals from copying the capabilities of its Claude AI models have reduced data harvested in so-called distillation attacks
October 13, 2026The International Monetary Fund trimmed its growth forecasts for Latin America and the Caribbean for this year and next and said most of the region was getting little lift
October 13, 2026El Niño and other factors have combined to turbocharge the central and eastern Pacific hurricane region to record activity
October 13, 2026North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, marking Pyongyang's fourth
October 12, 2026President Donald Trump's administration is planning to move three senior officials from the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) to the
October 13, 2026Bones in archaeological sites, ancient rock art, paintings on frescos and vases, written historical records and ethnographic accounts all helped researchers recreate a deep history of people and tuna.
October 13, 2026A new study compared the glaciers in the Lower 48 states today against historical data from the mid-20th century. The results show the region’s vulnerabilities as temperatures rise.
October 13, 2026Tropical storms rarely survive in the cool water off California, but waves from storms far to the south can still damaged coastal areas. And flooding rain can sweep in.
October 13, 2026British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford air base in Britain was "highly likely" to have been
October 12, 2026Europe's car industry fought back against rising Chinese competition at the Paris car show on Monday with a wave of new model launches and
October 12, 2026Meta on Monday launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, calling them its most capable AI models yet, as the social media firm looks to compete more forcefully with OpenAI and
October 13, 2026Marijuana on the ballot for the final time in Idaho? Voters to decide if lawmakers have sole power to legalize
October 13, 2026Black bear cub with head stuck in jar for days rescued by N.C. wildlife officials
October 13, 2026"Massive shellfish die-offs continue" along Maine coast due to red tide
October 12, 2026American-born economists Robert E
October 12, 2026The sharp rise in long-term US Treasury yields has spurred mortgage-related hedging that adds selling pressure to an already
October 12, 2026Conflict and drought are worsening food insecurity in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
October 12, 2026Video of California man convicted of poisoning co-worker released as he seeks to dismiss ruling
October 12, 2026This year’s Nobel Prize awards concluded Monday after two economists won the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on models that help manage economic shocks
October 12, 2026US academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize on Monday for decades of work developing ground-up
October 12, 2026Lithium startup EnergyX said on Monday it has signed a $2 billion binding offtake to supply commodities trader Trafigura with the battery metal from Chile and the
October 12, 2026By Stephen Nellis and Max A.
October 12, 2026General Motors plans to launch an advanced iteration of its driver assist technology on the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ electric vehicle
October 12, 2026Storms big and small can produce a lot of rain. What matters most is how fast they’re moving, as an atmospheric scientist and educator explains.
October 12, 2026Joshua 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
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