At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.

Troy E. Meink’s comments were the first public acknowledgment of American weapons in orbit. The Pentagon has been preparing for potential conflict in space with Russia or China.

Birds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said.

We found grace, humanity and friendship in the stories of disparate Americans hit by climate chaos.

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The UN resolution to junk the Mercator projection of the globe – which makes Africa look small and Canada big – is nakedly political, says Professor James Alexander. No wonder the US opposed it.

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Author Simmons is, among other things, a disaster preparedness expert. The outcome here would make 9/11 seem negligible.

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Paleontologists have identified a new species of extinct alligatorid that lived in what is now Colorado just a few hundred thousand years after the asteroid impact that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs.

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