Two centuries after the coal miners arrived, residents are racing to save the stream and bring back the trout.

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

Character Technologies, the company behind the AI chatbot app Character.ai, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, raising questions about what happens to millions of users’ private conversations.

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Jun Takahashi was stunned when he saw the online post: someone in the Yukon bush had found a canoe barrel full of his mildew-y camping gear, and his long-lost flute.

The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s “war on terror.”…

University of Pittsburgh was one of nine schools under investigation for potential visa fraud, according to Vice President J.D. Vance.

Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wh...

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.

Seasonal damage in bone fossils in Spain suggest Neanderthals and their predecessors followed the same strategy as cave bears

Commentator David Bouchier suggests that we would enjoy winter more if we lived like traditional French peasants.

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An acre of Highland Park is becoming a public orchard, with apples, pawpaws a hickory-pecan hybrid called a hican and more that anyone will be able to pick.

Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme

On the fly, a crowd hatched a plan to rescue two men stuck on a roof for six hours to avoid the Border Patrol.

The computer-designed vaccine aims to protect against coronaviruses that haven't yet emerged, including pandemic threats