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Tiny wild cat newly identified as a species draws curious visitors in Bolivia

11:13 PM on Sunday, September 20

A tiny wild cat newly identified as a species in Bolivia has become an unlikely tourist attraction

FILE - Soldiers look at a world map as they wait to board a flight in Manas, Kyrgyzstan, on the way home after completing a deployment in Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

This truth emerges as political situations change fast: Maps show us our world, but not neutrally

8:29 AM on Sunday, September 20

Maps can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else

This image taken from video shows a humpback whale swimming in the Sacramento River on Sept. 16, 2026, near Rio Vista, Calif. (Denny Glover via AP)

A humpback whale was spotted in a California river, 60 miles from its Pacific Ocean home

5:57 PM on Friday, September 18

An adult humpback whale has been spotted in California's largest river

Meet Earth’s newest wild cat species, the first named in over a century

2:30 PM on Friday, September 18

A small, spotted cat at a Bolivian wildlife sanctuary has turned out to belong to a previously unknown species

Ashish Rajurkar, a research scientist at the Salk Institute, digs out root samples from genetically-engineered soybeans Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, at a research field in Urbana, Ill. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Scientists hope deeper-rooted soybeans can withstand climate extremes and store more carbon

9:01 AM on Friday, September 18

For years, scientists have explored ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere, including through direct air capture, changes to ocean chemistry so seawater can absorb more carbon and reforestation

Shenzhen Jewellok Technology Unveils Integrated Laboratory Gas Pipeline And Gas Scrubber Systems

7:53 AM on Friday, September 18

Britain's King Charles III, left, walks with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, right, and Sir Demis Hassabis to a meeting for leaders from the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, government, and thought leaders to discuss how AI can be developed and deployed in ways that benefit society, at Dumfries House in Cumnock, Scotland, Thursday Sept. 17, 2026. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP, Pool)

The king and AI: UK monarch Charles meets artificial intelligence leaders as safety concerns swirl

4:55 AM on Thursday, September 17

King Charles III has urged AI leaders to keep artificial intelligence under control and beneficial for people and the planet

This combination of photos made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the same area on the surface of the moon before and after a newly-discovered crater in May 2024. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Intuitive Machines via AP)

NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

2:03 PM on Wednesday, September 16

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that's bigger than the Roman Colosseum, the result of a powerful impact two years ago

This 2026 photo provided by UCLA shows scientist Robert Eagle holding a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth that was used to measure the dinosaur’s body temperature. (UCLA via AP)

The T. rex had a body temperature similar to our own, study finds

2:02 PM on Wednesday, September 16

A new study has found that the T

Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years

5:03 AM on Wednesday, September 16

A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979

No, AI systems don’t have a drive to survive – a developmental psychologist explains why it only looks that way

8:36 AM on Tuesday, September 15

FILE - Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink speaks during the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Thursday, May 28, 2026, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool, File)

US acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

8:16 AM on Tuesday, September 15

The U.S. has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

FILE - Microsoft's Bill Gates attends a dinner with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Gates Foundation warns AI could widen inequality as foundation pledges $1B to expand access

12:01 AM on Tuesday, September 15

Bill Gates is warning technology companies and world leaders that they must act now to ensure artificial intelligence combats social inequities

Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study

9:07 AM on Monday, September 14

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will use gravity as a magnifying glass to find distant planets

8:40 AM on Monday, September 14

A fossilized tooth of a Pacific mastodon, left, is displayed during an interview in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026, in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area

7:12 PM on Friday, September 11

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye

Cristina Rapti-Tzelepi, 54, holds her three-day-old daughter, Georgia, as her husband, Constantinos Raptis, 60, stands in the background at a private maternity clinic in Athens, Greece, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

After tragedy, a Greek couple welcomes a daughter born from an embryo frozen for 22 years

11:24 AM on Friday, September 11

A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl from an embryo frozen for 22 years

Little Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected

9:00 AM on Thursday, September 10

A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected

FILE - A person cools off at a cooling mist spot on a hot and sunny day at the Sensoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.

10:00 PM on Wednesday, September 9

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August

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