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Visionary Hungarian-American scientist foresaw the potential of renewable power

Contrails — those lines of wispy white clouds that follow some jets — may not be so harmless.

Amid ongoing backlash for his antisemitic behavior, Kanye West just released his first new song since his empire began to crumble in recent months.

Since the start of the Covid pandemic more than 2.5 years ago, there have been endless debates about working remotely. At first Zoom and Teams software inspired optimistic futurists to announce that the office was now irrelevant. Then, a militant return-to-the-office demand rose to defy them. The most recent prominent…

Billions of dollars of customer money is missing, investigators are circling, and the 30-year-old ex-CEO admits his company broke its own rules.

Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or so, one of those stars will wander too close to the supermassive black hole lurking at the galaxy’s centre and be torn apart. These cosmic behemoths weigh in at millions…

After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who got into MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman-Fried decided in those teen years that he wanted to save the world in the worst way.

The Thor actor embarked on a quest for longer life in his new documentary — these are the extreme lengths he went to

Earth can correct its climate over eons, scientists say; sadly, it doesn't work fast enough to stop climate change

Phones can capture the same kind of information about bridge vibrations picked up by stationary sensors.

Researchers at MIT suggest that indoor relative humidity may have an affect on the transmission of COVID-19.