Though they're not inherently dirty animals, rats scavenge in sewers and bins and can pass on serious diseases to humans.

From AI regulation and digital sovereignty to blockchain and net neutrality, we delve into the big questions shaping Europe's digital future. But we don't stop at talking - we hit the streets. Our ...

In the heart of Michigan’s countryside, where cornfields stretch toward the horizon and small towns dot the landscape like freckles on a sun-kissed face, lies a treasure hunter’s paradise that locals ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote a tweet about the dead internet theory and was instantly informed that he was part of the problem. What is the theory, and how does it hold up in 2025? ByDani Di Placido, ...

Exactly three years ago today, Elon Musk tweeted that 90 percent of his tweet replies on what was then called Twitter were bot accounts. His insistence that Twitter was essentially one large bot farm ...

For the last century, Émile Argand's theory on the formation and geological support system of the massive Himalayan mountain range has remained the predominant explanation widely accepted among ...

More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

Why do people get sick? Ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s highest-ranking public-health official, and he may chalk it up to their terrain. For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional diseases that leave permanent marks on the skeleton. This group of humanlike ...

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most ...