Sci-Tech

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, but the entire lineage was wiped out about 25 million years ago, leaving prehistorians to grapple with what caused the apex predator to go extinct.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has temporarily paused downloads of its chatbot apps in South Korea while it works with local authorities to address privacy concerns, South Korean officials said Monday.

University of Guelph (U of G) researchers have invented a slime-like material that generates electricity when squeezed or compressed, which has opened the door to a wide array of applications.

Meta Platforms is establishing a new division within its Reality Labs unit to develop AI-powered humanoid robots that can assist with physical tasks, according to an internal company memo viewed by Reuters on Friday.

Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its spores.

The remains of an ancient basilica that would have formed the heart of Roman London have been uncovered during building work in the center of the British capital.

Google Play said it restored TikTok to the U.S. app store on Thursday, following promises by President Donald Trump to save the app.

Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact chunks — of the city’s origins almost 2,000 years ago.

More information has come to light about the deaths of two endangered northern spotted owls released into the wild last year.

A new study offers a clearer picture of how planets are born alongside stars, findings that are an exciting step toward understanding the development of planets and their atmospheres, the lead researcher says.

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

Some community groups are speaking out against Google’s decision to drop certain events from its calendar and say it’s part of a disturbing trend in big tech.

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy.

China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy groups said Thursday.

Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests.