The world's oldest-known terrestrial animal, an Aldabra giant tortoise named Jonathan and estimated to be about 194 years old, may owe his extraordinary longevity to a combination of genetic traits an...

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Why are so many people walking across San Francisco? Thank Bob Siegel, a tireless 86-year-old who built the city’s ultimate walk.

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Many say energy prices are top of mind as they head to the ballot box in November.

Developers and consumers increasingly choose reasoning models (RMs) based on their listed API prices. However, how accurately do these prices reflect actual inference costs? We conduct the first syste...

Microsoft will pay $2.499 million in penalties after one of its data centers in Leesburg violated an emissions permit last year.

Markets widely expected the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point.

Salesforce issued some updated longer-term financials at its annual Dreamforce conference.

AI safety researchers warned that popular models would go rogue. This is only the beginning.

The winners of this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion competition showcase the wiggly, feathery, undulating beauty of invisible life.

Employees have overlapping identities at work. That’s a challenge for bosses

New estimates using the planet’s surface wrinkles show that our smallest planet is growing even smaller, at a faster clip than expected.

Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.

You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit.

Around 5,000 people gathered in San Francisco in August for an international fountain pen show. Many collectors who grew up digital are remaking the culture, online and IRL.

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

IKEA takes a big step to make home furnishing more affordable as many people continue to feel pressure from higher living costs. Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer, other IKEA franchisees, and Int...

The Adachi Museum of Art in western Japan said on Tuesday its gardens topped a U.S. magazine's 2025 Japanese garden ranking, marking its 23rd straight year as No. 1. For the list by "Sukiya Livin...

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The new mission for casino operators: Look less like casinos.