Glacier loss could break the 2022 record after a series of heatwaves this summer, raising the risk of falling river levels and deadly ice avalanches

An analysis of data collected from hundreds of thousands of cars in Australia offers an insight into driving behaviour that can be used to identify sections of road where crashes may occur in the future

A challenging mathematical effort undertaken by a team of undergraduates has put bounds on a promising set of ways to break and upgrade the standard model of particle physics

The population of baleen whales along eastern Greenland has boomed in recent decades, and reporter Leah Crane recounts a profound experience of seeing them

A newfound star called S301 is both the fastest ever seen and the closest to a supermassive black hole –and it could make bafflingly difficult tests of gravity possible at last

Coral records from the Galapagos Islands indicate El Niños have been gathering strength over the past 40 years, in line with rising global temperatures

Intense fires are already burning in Indonesia, and there could be much worse to come as the Super El Niño ramps up

A stronger El Niño means more extreme weather, including droughts and wildfires in some places and flooding and tropical storms in others Wildfires in California in 2015 were exacerbated by a strong El Niño phase Bobbushphoto/Getty Images Wildfires in California in 2015 were exacerbated by a strong El Niño phase Bobbushphoto/Getty Images The super El Niño climate phase that has begun in the Pacific Ocean is already the strongest on record on some measures. When it peaks at the end of this year,

Climate change means we face an increasingly unpredictable future

Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children.

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness As more people use chatbots and artificial-intelligence assistants for everyday tasks, a curious phenomenon is emerging: a growing number of users view their chatbots as not merely intelligent tools but as conscious entities that are somehow alive. People fill online forums and podcasts with anecdotes of feeling deeply “understood” by their digital

What can life evolve into after a million years of total darkness, crushing pressure and isolation? The answer may be lurking under Antarctica

You probably walked by it a bunch of times today.

From interstellar visitors to alien radio signals, scientists are asking a question once confined to science fiction: what happens when we finally make contact? September 01, 2026 In the summer of 2025, astronomers spotted a visitor from beyond our Solar System coursing through the blackness of space. Only the third interstellar object ever detected by our telescopes, it was picked up by an instrument in Chile designed to watch the skies for asteroids that might collide with Earth. The object

Toronto-based Meissner has secured the backing of deep-tech executives like Dominion Dynamics CEO Eliot Pence and General Fusion CEO Greg Twinney as it tries to use AI to develop new superconductors with applications from quantum computing to nuclear fusion.

Meissner draws support from tech luminaries, including CEOs of Xanadu, General Fusion and Ada

Tim Cook isn’t just passing the torch, he’s handing over one of the corporate world’s biggest successes

Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, does the maths on whether anything is actually real

Today is Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow. To mar

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could shed light on some of the deepest questions researchers have about dark energy and the universe

Little known outside tech circles, John Ternus is taking on one of Silicon Valley’s top roles

U.S. President Donald Trump's push to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" underscores Canada's reliance on U.S. tech giants like Google and Apple.

August 10, 2026, 5:05 AM ET Outgoing Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. On Wednesday, at the end of the day in London, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis had some news for employees. Hassabis, DeepMind’s cofounder and the lab’s longtime steward, was giving up the CEO title and moving to a chairman role, they said. Minutes later, the news broke that longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean and several other prominent researchers were leaving the company. Staff in