Artificial intelligence is transforming our world, but it comes with a surprising cost. Discover how much water AI really uses, the massive electricity demands of data centers, and the other resources powering modern AI.
Impeachment is the process the House of Representatives uses to charge a federal official with…
Compound interest is interest earned on both the original amount of money and on the…
The Industrial Revolution is usually told as a list of inventions. That hides what actually…
A severe wildfire can turn a thriving forest into a landscape of blackened trunks, scorched soil, and ash. From the ground, it can look as though almost everything has been erased. Yet in many forests, signs of life begin appearing within weeks. New shoots push through the soil, grasses spread across burned ground, and seedlings…
Picture standing on a ship in the middle of the ocean. The horizon is real, but it isn’t a wall. The water continues beyond it. The universe may work in a similar way. We can only see so far into space because light takes time to travel. The universe is about 13.8 billion years old,…
Canadians took nearly $70 billion out of Tax-Free Savings Accounts in 2024. That figure comes from Canada Revenue Agency data reported by The Globe and Mail. Roughly one-third of TFSA holders aged 25 to 45 made at least one withdrawal that year, higher than the overall average. People in their late 20s and early 30s…
Ants work as a team without anyone giving orders. A colony can find food, care for young, defend the nest, and even construct temporary structures because each ant responds to what is immediately around it—other ants, chemical trails, or the task at hand. The queen lays eggs. She does not assign jobs or manage daily…
News organizations including Reuters and the Associated Press projected on Wednesday that Democrats seized control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in the midterm elections held Tuesday. Democrats flipped Senate seats in Kansas, where Adam Hamilton became the state’s first Democratic senator since the Great Depression, in South Carolina, a…
Voters across the United States cast ballots on Tuesday in midterm elections that will determine control of the House and Senate for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate were on the ballot, including special elections for the seats vacated by…
A fragment of leg bone from a small meat-eating dinosaur that lived roughly 115 million years ago in what is now northeastern Brazil contains microscopic structures that researchers interpret as mineralized red blood cells, along with chemical traces of a key component of hemoglobin. The dinosaur is Aratasaurus museunacionali, a basal coelurosaurian theropod known from…
Roughly 300 million years ago, the largest flying insect known from the late Carboniferous had a wingspan of about 65 to 75 centimetres—roughly the length of a human arm. Its name is Meganeura monyi. It belonged to an extinct group called griffinflies (Meganisoptera), close relatives of modern dragonflies but not true dragonflies themselves. On the…
European supermarket groups reported on Monday that refrigeration and freezer systems at stores across the continent had been remotely overridden, raising temperatures and forcing food to be discarded. Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt in Belgium and Luxembourg, ICA and Coop in Sweden, Carrefour in Belgium and SuperValu in Ireland were among the chains affected, according to…
Impeachment is the process the House of Representatives uses to charge a federal official with “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Constitution gives the House the sole power to impeach and the Senate the sole power to try all impeachments. An impeachment is not a removal. It is the equivalent of an…
