A massive wildfire burning near Bordeaux in southwestern France has generated a rare pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) cloud, a towering, thunderstorm-like cloud created by the intense heat of large fires. The phenomenon, which can produce its own...

For more than a century, one of cosmology’s biggest paradoxes has remained unresolved: if the second law of thermodynamics says the Universe is becoming increasingly disordered, how did it produce galaxies, stars, planets—and ultimately life?...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly responded for the first time after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would consider enforcing the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant if Netanyahu were to...

President Donald Trump revived his criticism of renewable energy during a speech at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making a series of false and unsubstantiated claims about wind power, electricity reliability, and U.S. energy policy....

Russian President Vladimir Putin defended Russia’s position in the war against Ukraine during a televised meeting with naval personnel after the cancellation of the country’s annual Navy Day parade in St Petersburg due to security...

Businesses eager to automate customer support with Meta’s AI tools may also be signing up for something far less obvious: taking on much of the legal risk if that AI causes problems. Buried within Meta’s...