Russia’s S-400 has become one of the world’s best-known long-range air defense systems, but its successor is already taking shape. Over the next two decades, the S-500 Prometheus is expected to take on a growing...

What began in Germany as an attempt to turn gym workouts into a competitive sport has become a global fitness phenomenon. Hyrox combines endurance running with functional strength exercises in a standardised race format. Unlike...

Apple and OpenAI are heading toward a major lawsuit over allegations that former Apple employees took confidential information to the artificial intelligence company as it develops new consumer hardware. Apple sued OpenAI, OpenAI’s hardware subsidiary...

Iceland, Qatar and Singapore consume far more energy per person than most countries, but the picture changes sharply when the world’s most populous nations are considered. According to the Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World...

The Pizza Theorem may be one of the rare mathematical ideas that can settle an argument before the pizza gets cold. The geometry behind it shows that two people can divide a round pizza into...

On August 11, a Syrian court sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for crimes including premeditated killings, torture, arbitrary detention, crimes against humanity, and the killing of children during Syria’s devastating civil war. His...

As military tensions across the Taiwan Strait continue to rise, Taiwan is accelerating efforts to strengthen its defenses against a potential Chinese invasion. Among the island’s most closely watched initiatives is the “Hellscape” strategy—an asymmetric...

The August 12 total solar eclipse will create a spectacular celestial event across parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but two NASA aviators will experience something most people on the ground cannot: an unusually long period...

Artificial intelligence has helped scientists design functional viruses that have never existed in nature, marking a significant milestone in synthetic biology. While the achievement could accelerate the development of new treatments for drug-resistant bacterial infections,...

Brittany Boltinhouse, who was crowned Miss North Carolina USA 2026 in June, has been stripped of her title less than two months into her reign. Pageant organizers announced the decision after what they described as...