The fictional misanthrope Dr House would often joke that if one could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people. Of course, the savant made those observations before Donald Trum...
Pope Leo XIV has invoked one of the Bible’s most famous stories, the Tower of Babel, while warning about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. In recent remarks about AI ethics and global technol...
Western Europe reeled under an unseasonal heatwave on Tuesday as record-breaking temperatures swept across the continent.A “heat dome” carrying warm air from northern Africa and trapped under a high-p...
The mother of a British teenager who allegedly died after attempting a dangerous online challenge has criticised the UK government for moving too slowly on plans to restrict children’s access to socia...
PC: University of Washington A small stretch of ground beside a chain-link fence on the University of Washington campus has turned out to hold a far older story than anyone working there on an ordinar...
A 13-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming at a reservoir in West Yorkshire during the Bank Holiday heatwave, police confirmed on Tuesday.Emergency services rushed to Lead...
At first glance, the animals look frozen in time. A bird appears trapped mid-flight. A bat hangs stiffly from a branch with its wings spread wide like a gothic sculpture. Their bodies seem carved from...
The sky this week does something it only occasionally manages without fussing about it too much. A second full moon arrives inside the same calendar month, the sort of timing quirk that sounds more dr...
The music was loud, the streets were crowded and a troupe of glamorous dancers swayed through the festival in sparkling outfits and heavy makeup. To most people in the crowd, they looked like part of ...
A quiet field can look completely ordinary until you notice the pattern. Many cows and deer seem to rest or graze with their bodies lined up roughly north-south. That odd detail first drew serious sci...