In a little-noticed speech this week, China permanently changed the global fight against climate change.

Poles were left shaken and stirred by news that a suspected British agent called James Bond was on Her Majesty's secret service in the country in the 1960s, after the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) posted about him on social media.

36 days later... extremely sus

Pandemic policy must include defining and measuring what we mean by mild infection.

The 27 wooden coffins are said to have lain undisturbed inside a well at an ancient necropolis.

Like the bind of a tortuous finger trap, Britain’s Brexit conundrum grows tighter and more painful the more the country wrestles with it.

If you were to play your favourite song right now, I imagine you’d have little difficulty clapping along with the beat. Our appreciation of beat allows us to clap, dance, march and sway in time with a piece of music — or just with each other. As the authors of a new paper published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General point out, these behaviours occur spontaneously across human cultures. But while moving to a beat seems effortless, it involves all kinds of perceptual processes.

Are we here to re-create ourselves as robotic humanoids? In a recent podcast, Robert J. Marks discusses what robots can do for us with retired internist and author Geoffrey Simmons. In his most recent book, Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves?: The Convergence of Designs (2019), Simmons argues that in creating artificially intelligent robots, we are trying to recreate the human being. But can we really recreate everything about ourselves? For example, they discussed, can robots be counselors? Sho...

A crown adorned with plastic jewels, famously worn by Notorious B.I.G. during his last ever photo shoot, sold for $594,750 at a hip hop-inspired auction in New York on Tuesday evening.

Serving Seattle since 1986, all manner of Fremont’s beloved veggie goods like that of the vegan thai peanut stir fry and vegan BBQ beyond burger are coming to a wistful goodbye as Silence Heart Nest announced its permanent closure last week.

zobo is now level 40 with 7,455,110 XP.

A common argument for online voting doesn't actually make sense.

The same Russian intelligence outfit that hacked the Democrats in 2016 has tried to hack into more than 200 organizations' systems, Microsoft says.

Apple has postponed full enforcement of a feature of its upcoming iOS 14 software for iPhones that would require app developers to request users' permission to track them across apps for advertising purposes. This announcement comes in the wake of a public complaint from Facebook that the privacy policy could negatively impact the ad market in Apple's ecosystem.

Amazon is keeping a watchful eye on workers, lest they try to become organized.

The company is surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, according to an internal web tool and reports left on the open internet.

Scientists have spotted an active galaxy far, far away — and it looks like it could join Darth Vader's fleet. Located 500 million light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation, Galaxy TXS 0128+554 bears a striking resemblance to the iconic aircraft from Star Wars. According to a paper published Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal, the galaxy is active, meaning all of its stars are not capable of providing the amount of light emitted by the galaxy on their own.

Trevor Milton, founder of the electric truck startup Nikola, announced Wednesday he was giving away over $200 million worth of his stock in the company to some of its earliest employees. After a reverse-merger in June, Nikola's market value surged (although it's pared many of those gains in weeks since). Milton, who currently serves as executive chairman and de-facto social media face of the company, will still own about 20% of its stock after giving away the 6,005,162 shares.