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More than 25,000 self-proclaimed citizens have pledged their allegiance to this faux dictatorship, where Crocs and reply-all emails are forbidden.

Ambitious effort tested whether more than 100 papers held up on multiple types of “repeatability” tests

Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

Online fads such as sharing photos of yourself from 2016 and 2026 are goldmines for training AI systems, yet we keep doing them

‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

The total failed to reach the government's target of ¥2 trillion for 2025 even though exports to all top 10 destinations increased year on year.

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees Scientists have been forced to rethink the intelligence of cattle after an Austrian cow named Veronika displayed an impressive – and until now undocumented – knack for tool use. Witgar Wiegele, an organic farmer and baker from a small town in Carinthia near the Italian border, keeps Veronika as a pet and noticed that she occasionally played with sticks and used them to scratch her body. Continue reading...

Don't worry. They had parachutes.

A former Cold War fallout shelter in rural Nova Scotia is being transformed into luxury condominiums for elite clients seeking refuge from global crises. Project co-owner Paul Mansfield says renovatio...

The national RCMP union is criticizing what it calls a "misleading" Alberta government panel report that urges Premier Danielle Smith's government to continue steps to ditch the Mounties.

Partial repair of cardiac right vagus nerve using an implantable conduit after vagal resection limits cardiac tissue damage and dysfunction.

From Alberta and Ontario to Quebec and British Columbia, Canada's premiers have been ratcheting up their anti-judge rhetoric. It won't lead us anywhere good.

For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the “Oseberg,” “Gokstad” and “Tune”—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo

EFF has submitted its formal comment to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) opposing a set of proposed rules that would sharply restrict the public’s ability to challenge wrongly granted pate...

The first Scottish bonds in over 300 years, already known as “kilts,” could help exorcise the ghosts of the past.

The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo as the world’s most populous city, according to a UN study that uses new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities. The Indonesian capital is home to 42 million people, according to an estimate by the population division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in its World Urbanisation Prospects 2025 report published this month. Continue reading...

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Australia is emerging as a quiet winner amid the Trump administration’s tariff campaign as surging gold and beef exports improve its trade balance with the US.

While well known for their ability to navigate the dark using sound, bats don’t only use sound for echolocation –  they also use it to talk to each other.

A groundbreaking study led by Project CETI and University of California, Berkeley has discovered that sperm whales produce vowel-like and diphthong-like patterns in their communications, revealing a p...

Nineteenth century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche offers us a method that can help us navigate the highly polarizing discourse that’s afflicting democracies today. IDEAS shares lessons on heal...

Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

Polar bears that have taken over an abandoned polar research station off Russia’s far eastern coast were intimately captured in drone footage by Vadim Makhorov.

Hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap every day. A nonprofit is on a mission to repurpose them.

PG&E , California's largest electric utility, has seen a jump of more than 40% this year in requests for power supplies from data center developers across the northern part of the state, an executive with the company told Reuters on Tuesday.

Libya's eastern-based government said on Wednesday it may announce a force majeure on oil fields and ports citing "repeated assaults on the National Oil Corporation (NOC)."

Chile's state-run mining firm ENAMI aims for its new Rio Tinto lithium partnership at Altoandinos to begin production in 2032 with 35,000 metric tons of the battery metal per year, and ramp up over three years to 75,000 tons, ENAMI company chief Ivan Mlynarz said on Friday.

Geothermal energy in the Great Basin of Nevada and adjoining states could produce electricity equivalent to 10% of the current U.S. power supply, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Thursday.

A record number of so-called reverse Yankee deals have been sold this year, an early sign of a possible lasting shift in the US-dominated corporate debt market.

A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.