AI and new digital technologies are key to the urgently needed alternative energy trade routes through the Southern Gas Corridor and the Middle Corridor systems connecting the Caspian and Europe.
I tend to get Bristol’s Froglord mixed up with all the other current bands with the word “Frog” in their names, but that always changes when I hit play on one of their tracks. When I do that, I’m like, “Oh right, this is the Frog band that kicks ass.” Their new single “Croak”
The upcoming PS5 exclusive is Insomniac Games' bloodiest action-adventure yet
A fifth man was discharged and acquitted by the court due to insufficient evidence against him.
President Trump bristled at the notion of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tricking him into a war with Iran, although evidence suggests that Israel has had a significant role in starting and prolonging the conflict. “What do you say to people who claim that Bibi
A case with a different kind of screen.
The cryptocurrency is likely to break below its lows hit in early February, traders on prediction market Kalshi believe.
'Supracompetitive'
Brussels is moving to crack down on Chinese overcapacity flooding the EU market, despite Beijing’s retaliation threats.
Over the past decade or so, the New York singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy has built up a truly solid catalog, and it just keeps growing. Glaspy released her album Echo The Diamond in 2023, and she followed it up with the 2024 EP The Sun Doesn’t Think. Last year, Glaspy covered
The New Jersey-based artist's works hang tapestry-like on the wall or unfurl into three-dimensional biomorphic forms. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The
Suno, an AI music generation platform, pocketed $400 million in its latest funding round, which the company says values the company at $5.4 billion. The funding round, announced Wednesday, was led by Bond Capital, with IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon Capital
[The Point] Africa, the cradle of human civilization, with a population of 1.2 billion, or 16% of the world's population, in 54 nations, is the most culturally diverse continent. It spreads over about 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of the land area, yet, Africa is
Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That's how much plastic waste the world is predicted to be generating every year by 2050 if nothing is done to change course.
Whisky-inspired chemicals could help power a new generation of microscopic machines, according to researchers who have discovered a way to make tiny particles "swim" through liquid using compounds linked to the production of Scotland's national drink.
[African Union] The 52nd Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives' Committee (PRC) officially opened today, 3 June 2026, at the African Union (AU) Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The session precedes the 49th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council and the 8th
The Senate majority leader said most GOP senators are "pretty satisfied" that a controversial DOJ payout fund is dead.
The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is not dead, according to the president. Donald Trump told the New York Post podcast Pod Force One that his administration had not dropped the $1.8 billion slush fund, putting him at odds with what his officials told Congress. “No. A court ruled
The latest trailer for Marvel's Wolverine, revealed in the PlayStation State of Play event, proves it's a great year for fans of burly dudes
More than 1,000 climbers reached the summit, making 2026 the busiest season on record.
Worry not, this is no demand for sanitizing anything; it's an appeal to the craft
The call to create a voluntary cross-border framework for banks comes ahead of a major Commission report on sector competitiveness.
Gosh, I wonder how? Was it AI, by any chance?
A film documenting the making of the musician's first LP in seven years premieres at Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday
President Trump confirmed he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “f---king crazy” during a heated phone conversation earlier this week, citing frustrations with Israel’s military operations in Lebanon that are complicating efforts to secure a peace agreement with
Designed to support mid-career Minnesota artists, the fellowship provides each recipient with a $25,000 stipend, professional development, a residency, and more.
Amid real images of violent celebrations in Paris following PSG's victory against Arsenal, many misleading and miscaptioned images have also emerged to push an anti-immigration narrative.
Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). These flashes of light power applications from precision micromachining to eye surgery to optical frequency combs, the Nobel Prize-winning technology behind today's most precise
From chewing to chomping to grinding, teeth suffer from a lifetime of repeated mechanical stress. It makes sense, then, that enamel is one of the hardest natural materials.
When cells experience sudden physical stress, like stretching or pressure, they can activate a fast, protective mechanism that shields their nuclei from destruction, according to a new study published in the Biophysical Journal. This mechanism could help scientists develop
With help from a novel cross-linking molecule, MIT chemists have shown they can substantially improve the ballistic impact resistance of common polymers, including polystyrene and a type of rubber used to make shoe soles.
Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their origins presented a puzzling gap in the fossil record. While nearly every other major animal group made its first appearance during the Cambrian explosion
In the March quarter Australia’s economy grew 0.3%. But the real issue is what drove that growth Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The March GDP figures , not for the first time, showed that the focus on economic growth seems rather foolish when you
Food waste is a nagging problem that weighs heavily on global food production, distribution and sales industries—but an emerging generation of AI sensors is providing a raft of fresh solutions. The embrace of AI in food industries has been swift, which is why Flinders
For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal jelly and a ruler emerges. But new research suggests queens are created through a more elaborate process.
A new study on multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has discovered that it represented a highly distinct evolutionary lineage, which separated from modern lions more than a million years ago. The results also show that the cave lion had a history of interbreeding with
Queen-cell wax helps shape honeybee queen development, challenging the idea that royal jelly alone makes a queen, a new study suggests.
