They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

A new poll from Gallup released Wednesday shows that few Americans see immigration as the country’s biggest problem compared with other nations where more respondents say it’s an issue. Gallup found ...

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America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the ...

As the year draws ever closer to its end, the zero-day vulnerabilities just keep on coming. Google has now confirmed the eighth such zero-day vulnerability, for which a known exploit has been reported ...

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