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A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention of the astronomy community now has a slightly increased risk of affecting Earth.

China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy groups said Thursday.

Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests.

NASA’s two stuck astronauts may end up back on Earth a little sooner than planned.

A Quebec judge was presented with details today of a $9-million settlement that Facebook’s parent company has agreed to pay in a class-action lawsuit over alleged privacy violations.

The federal privacy watchdog says he has launched a formal investigation into a cybersecurity breach involving a student information system used across Canada.

Nearly 4,000 people have signed an open letter calling on Christie’s New York to cancel an upcoming sale dedicated solely to art created with artificial intelligence (AI) — the first of its kind for a major auction house — over concerns that the programs used to create some generative digital pieces are trained on copyrighted work and exploit human artists.

For Malcolm Weale, finding the first silver coin minted by a Viking ruler in Britain was the pinnacle of decades of hunting with his metal detector in the fields and forests near his home in eastern England.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday warned global leaders and tech industry executives that 'excessive regulation' could cripple the rapidly growing artificial intelligence industry in a rebuke to European efforts to curb AI’s risks.

A consortium of investors led by billionaire Elon Musk is offering US$97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new revelation about our planet’s deepest secrets — they identified changes to the inner core’s shape.

JD Vance stepped onto the world stage this week for the first time as U.S. vice president, using a high-stakes AI summit in Paris and a security conference in Munich to amplify Donald Trump’s aggressive new approach to diplomacy.

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that developing more electricity to power artificial intelligence will be a key priority of the G7 this year, as Canada assumes the presidency of the multinational body.

The geopolitics of artificial intelligence will be in focus at a major summit in France where world leaders, executives and experts will hammer out pledges on guiding the development of the rapidly advancing technology.