US president threatens EU with ‘substantial TARIFF’ for ‘ROBBING’ tech giants through fines such as the bloc’s $1 billion fine on Google

HBO There are more players than ever in this season of House of the Dragon, as the Dance of Dragons heats up and embroils all the major houses of the realm. All kinds of lords and knights are involved in the conflict by Season 3, making big strategic moves and taking on entire battles by…

QUICK FACTS Name: Tianchi Lake, or Heaven Lake Location: China-North Korea border Coordinates: 42.0091, 128.0593 Why it’s incredible: It is the deepest lake in China and sits at the top of a giant volcano. Heaven Lake is a crater lake at the top of Mount Changbaishan (also called Changbai Mountain) — a colossal, dormant volcano…

The galaxy on the screen represented an early population, but the most ancient galaxy discovered by JWST so far existed only 280 million years after the Big Bang. The telescope’s bewildering discovery of bright, early galaxies initially led some scientists to suggest that our understanding of fundamental cosmology, the laws that govern the behavior of…

Mosses are some of the earliest plants that appeared in the fossil record, but they’re anything but simple. A new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, reveals that moss cushions produce surprisingly complex electrical activity, with patterns that undulate across the velvety patch in dynamic waves. The study’s sole author, Andy Adamatzky, is actually…

Back to Article List Observers and imagers live for comets. Here are the top 20 from the past quarter-century. Comet 2006 P1 (McNaught) was a truly spectacular sight throughout the Southern Hemisphere. This image, taken from the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile in January 2007, shows the comet and a crescent Moon over…

In April, South Africa withdrew its draft national artificial-intelligence policy after the document was found to have cited several fabricated academic references. These sources turned out to be AI ‘hallucinations’. The policy had been partially drafted using AI. The irony was hard to ignore: a framework designed to govern AI was undermined by the very…