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Hurricanes, floods, and power outages are disrupting patient care, according to Harvard and Americares.

‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say

GenCast, a probabilistic weather model using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, has greater skill and speed than the top operational medium-range weather forecast in the world and provides probabilistic, rather than deterministic, forecasts.

Michael Rider succeeds Hedi Slimane as Celine's creative director starting in 2025. Explore how his experience with Phoebe Philo and Polo Ralph Lauren will shape future collections

A new crop of biotech startups are working on an alternative to alternative protein.

Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—the degree of continui…

Australia will spend AUD$100 billion to build the world's largest renewable energy facility occupying 22,700 sq km, areas larger than some countries.

How fast will it take over, how fast are costs shrinking, why is it so cheap, what industries will it birth, how much surface will it take up, where will it appear first?

Steven Mair is the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity's new gamer in residence

By Om Malik Dennis Crowley has built his career at the intersection of emerging technologies and human behavior. Twenty years ago, as a 25-year-old inspired...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean’s midnight...

Authorities impose restrictions on bike hire after huge group blocks a highway between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng in China, as night biking trend takes off

Initial test run of GPT-4o technology can help with regulations but ‘cannot provide predictions or opinions’

I used to feel powerless about climate change. Then I learned about this, and now I feel confident we can delay it at any time.

Wheat haul in England estimated to be down by 21%, with Britain’s wine producers also hit hard

U.S. spying on it's citizens and China taking advantage of that backdoor for months before anyone realizing.

This is only going to get worse over time.

Chinese hackers were in networks of major ISPs “for months,” WSJ reports.

WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.

The board is a “live document” that Sonos will update.

Carbon Mapper’s ultra-precise Tanager-1 is headed to space.

Uber and Lyft have found a new way to evade a New York City law guaranteeing rideshare drivers a minimum wage. Since June, drivers say they’ve been arbitrarily locked out of apps when they want to work — setting the companies up to save hundreds of millions.

Billionaire says autonomous car expected ‘before 2027’ will have a pricetag of less than US$30,000, with a ‘Robovan’ that can carry 20 people to follow

Helium gas may be seeping from Earth’s core, say scientists who found extremely high helium isotope ratios in lavas on Baffin Island

Increased melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica, measured by satellite gravity, has decreased the angular velocity of Earth more rapidly than before and has already affected global timekeeping.

As new offerings for advertisers arrive, Google’s share of the U.S. search ad market is projected by one research firm to drop below 50% next year.

The long-duration energy storage startup has raised a total of $1.2 billion. Form is expanding its West Virginia factory and working on its first…

Concerned about the future of our planet? WWF’s Living Planet Report provides critical insights into plummeting wildlife populations and potential solutions.

Blockchain evidence points to users carrying out market manipulation to inflate trading volumes on the popular political betting platform.