Every night, roughly 21,450 sand hoppers per meter of shoreline move about 110 lbs. of sand on California’s Isla Vista Beach, a new study found. Scientists say beach grooming can destroy hopper burrow...

Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .

Behind the headlines about AI agents lies a deeper debate over accountability, safety and control.

The unusually pattern marine creature was seen in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Denny's sneakers with syrup inside are back. They come with a syrup-scented hang tag and can get you free pancakes, too.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been keen to sell its artificial intelligence agent as a helpful friend – but that requires detailed data about people’s actual friends

Is it possible to optimize our poop?

"The scientific method gone mad — Dr. Strangelove, but it is not fiction."

Don’t have the energy to catch your own meal? This dolphin has a gross solution

Decades later, scientists are inspecting deteriorating drums and measuring whether the slow releases anticipated by the original disposal concept are affecting deep-sea ecosystems.

Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico will be shown on YouTube, the late night host announced

A lawsuit claims the policy was stricter on third-party developers than Apple itself.

A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.

Would you eat a cookie that was made from plastic? Technically, we're all ingesting an ungodly amount of plastic already, in the form of micro- and nanoscopic particles in our food.

Adam Kalkstein compared administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the constitution

Meta's $18 billion teen safety settlement is historic, but a 10-year payment plan, product loopholes, and leverage over rivals make it a bargain.

Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year

DHS allegedly went undercover at community meetings, subpoenaed the financial records of labor unions, and created dossiers on people at a church gathering, according to court filings.

That sentence structure is what once made William Shakespeare's writing great. But, chatbots tend to style outputted words as "it's not X, it's Y" to sound nuanced, says Will Oremus, writer at The Atl...

The Qiji X1 combines mechanical legs, a saddle and handlebars to turn a quadruped robot into a rideable machine.

Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place. D...

The lawsuit alleges that hundreds of workers could qualify for back pay.

Traffickers are using planes, larger boats and sailing close to coastlines as cocaine production in South America ramps up

In the early 90’s, a company called General Magic began working on a portable device that would allow people to check email, make phone calls, even play games. It was basically a smartphone. But it ne...

New Yorker writer Ben Taub says while the idea of acquiring Greenland is out of the headlines, it hasn't been dropped. Taub describes how Trump's ongoing efforts have broken the trust of our allies.

Exclusive: Tribunal accepts three siblings could face ‘persecution’ for refusing military conscription due to their political opinion on war

Lakes store large quantities of carbon in their sediments, contributing to climate regulation. Yet the fate of this carbon after lake desiccation remains unclear. Using a space-for-time substitution a...

On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones.

Shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms and sold at some Taco Bell restaurants has been linked to a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a source familiar with the investigation said Thurs...

President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi, th...

In the end, your opinion of alloClae might depend on your opinion of death.

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Hundreds of masked white nationalists marched in the nation's capital on July Fourth. Who were they and where does their funding come from?

Pastor Doug Wilson believes women should not be allowed to vote and homosexuality should be a crime. He was also invited to speak at the Pentagon this year.That controversial invitation from Defense S...

Guardian analysis of X feed shows how keen world’s richest person was to air his views and ‘interfere’ in British politics

A former Olympic canoeist has been indicted by a grand jury in Washington, DC, Superior Court, for allegedly damaging the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

Federal agents went to a Rochester man's home to warn him that an email he sent five months ago could be an illegal threat. He was on vacation but another agent found his hotel hundreds of miles away.

Park officials eventually got to the bottom of its "striking appearance."

Pete Buttigieg says the day separated from his children was "among the darkest hours of my life".

Critics say mandating Bible reading for over 5m students breaches constitutional separation of church and state

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

Mona Khalil died Friday after an Israeli airstrike hit her beachside home two weeks ago. She's credited with creating a conservation movement in southern Lebanon to protect sea turtle nesting grounds.

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

Unpasteurized milk has moved from a fringe obsession to a widespread movement rooted in institutional distrust. Despite stringent hygiene efforts, contamination from deadly bacteria like E. coli and s...

The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.

State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.

In a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the newly-departed head of ICE said the agency collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, which could include protesters.