El Niño has formed across the equatorial Pacific, setting the stage for months of droughts, floods and temperature fluctuations that will threaten communities worldwide along with agriculture and energy.
The food in one of China's ancient capitals left Sophie Steiner underwhelmed.
Exclusive: poll across 15 countries finds ‘deep mistrust’, with majority doubting US would come to their aid in an attack European confidence in an American “security guarantee” has hit a historic low, a survey suggests, with only one in 10 people across 15 countries seeing the US as an ally and ...
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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at locations across the central belt with their faces covered and many holding Union flags and banners.
At the end of May, eight endangered Asiatic lions died at a national park in India. Officials feared the animals had succumbed to a tick-borne parasitic disease that previously killed lions in the area. But over the weekend, the Gujarat government announced that the lions’ real killer was extr...
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup was expected to deliver a massive tourism and hotel boom across the U. S. , but many hotels across host cities say the economic payoff is falling short of expectations — despite millions of tickets already being sold.
Voters in Maine, South Carolina, Nevada and North Dakota are heading to the polls Tuesday for key primaries, including the race in Maine involving controversial Democratic U. S. Senate candidate Graham Platner.
When English speakers say "rose" and Chinese speakers say "玫瑰," do they mean the same thing? A Peking University team led by Professor Bi Yanchao explored this question using word embeddings from 53 languages, behavioral ratings from speakers of eight languages and exploratory multilingual brain...
Here's your first look at Siri AI, and how it works across Apple's devices.
It's surprising how easy it is to see a koala every day in Australia's major cities. The cute, gray marsupial can be found on T-shirts, hanging off people's bags and pencils, and decorating any decent souvenir shop. But seeing a real koala in the wild has become increasingly tricky in some part...
Severe weather moving across parts of the country over the next few days will bring destructive hail and damaging winds to more than 30 million people from the central Plains to the northern Great Lakes and strong storms for the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast
Mature and old-growth forests are vital for biodiversity, carbon storage, cultural traditions and economic activity. But in Alaska and British Columbia, these rich resources have not been reliably mapped, leaving much unknown about what land is protected. Now, University of Oregon researchers a...
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Compare how good LLMs are across languages. There is a website and cli to try with the models/languages you care about. See the repo for more information: https://github.
Wildfires have worsened ozone levels across the United States so much over the last decade that they have reversed around four years of progress, a new study has found. Surface ozone levels, or smog concentrations, steadily increased from 2015 to 2024, deteriorating air quality across the Midwe...
Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Stonehenge’s six-ton Altar Stone was deliberately transported hundreds of kilometers from Scotland by ancient people. The feat would have required extraordinary planning, teamwork, and determination, revealing a surprisingly sophisticated level of orga...
A surprising study suggests that chemicals introduced to protect the ozone layer may have unintentionally created a growing global pollution problem. Researchers found that refrigerants and certain anesthetic gases have generated more than 335,000 tonnes of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a highly p...