For more than 100 years, scientists and food companies have chased the same goal: a sugar alternative that tastes like the real thing without the metabolic downsides. From saccharin in the late 19th century to...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted something astronomers have never fully seen before: a giant exoplanet trailing two enormous tails of helium, stretched out like a cosmic comet. The planet, known as WASP-121b...

A woman in San Francisco gave birth inside a self-driving Waymo taxi on her way to the UCSF Medical Center this week, a rare incident that’s raising fresh questions about what autonomous vehicles can (and...

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, closing one of the most damaging financial fraud cases in recent memory. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer delivered the sentence,...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who has spent more than a year in hiding, will not attend Wednesday’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. Her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, will receive the award...

A 39-year-old Austrian man has been charged with manslaughter after his 33-year-old girlfriend froze to death during a winter ascent on Grossglockner — a case prosecutors say goes beyond tragic misfortune and raises urgent questions...

Global defense companies pulled in an unprecedented $679 billion in 2024, driven largely by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Europe recorded the...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are now woven into everyday life, from customer service and search to healthcare triage and defense research. But a new study suggests that these systems may be far more fragile than we...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s recent White House visit produced one of the strangest political anecdotes of the year. But behind the now-viral moment lies a revealing story of how Donald Trump continues to...

A Thai woman waking up inside her coffin moments before cremation has stunned social media and raised urgent questions about medical oversight, end-of-life assumptions, and how families interpret signs of death. This extraordinary incident at...