The math is simple. It starts with three facts. China has spent massive amounts to create very low-cost electricity at a pace several times faster than the United States.

A secret laboratory in China has quietly assembled a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system and is now testing it.

A report from Reuters claims that scientists in China have created a prototype machine that could eventually be used to produce semiconductor chips capable of powering artificial intelligence (AI).

President Donald Trump is seriously considering reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I drug to Schedule III — on par with mild painkillers.

Gen Z and younger generations are often criticized amid the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tools, with complaints that students and young employees rely too heavily on AI to complete homework, write emails, and perform other tasks.

Time magazine named Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other “Architects of AI” as its Person of the Year.

The Japanese government will strengthen safeguards to protect ecosystems and landscapes from the adverse impacts of large-scale solar farms.

Setting standards for emerging technologies has historically been dominated by the United States, Germany and Japan — and those countries have reaped the profits.

A passenger ferry operating between Okayama and Shodoshima Island in western Japan will begin using technology enabling autonomous navigation in a world first.

As the global artificial intelligence (AI) race accelerates, the technology could deepen existing inequalities between countries if left unmanaged.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off eastern Aomori Prefecture around 11:15 p.m. on Monday, triggering a tsunami warning for coastal areas of Hokkaido and Aomori and Iwate prefectures.

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger warned that the biggest players in artificial intelligence (AI) are now funding their own growth, meaning the AI boom fueling markets may be somewhat illusory.

Although there’s still roughly a month to go, 2025 has produced so many bizarre headlines that strange news can be quickly forgotten.

Russia’s only crewed-mission launch site suffered major damage following a rocket launch.

South Korea has launched its largest satellite yet on its nationally developed space rocket, in the fourth of six launches planned through 2027.

The death toll from flooding and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island has risen dramatically to 417.

For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with water from the Kok River, which flows down from neighboring Myanmar before joining the Mekong River that cuts through Southeast Asia.

Researchers have analyzed a sample of DNA believed to belong to Adolf Hitler, which they say reveals the dictator of Nazi Germany had a genetic marker for a rare disorder that can delay puberty.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, athletes, journalists and officials from all over the world were transported by a fleet of sleek buses sporting a white, blue and green design as they zipped between venues in the Chinese capital.

Climate troublemaker La Niña will play a starring role in the United States’ winter weather.

Chinese astronauts stranded aboard the country’s Tiangong space station after suspected space junk struck their capsule have returned to Earth aboard their replacement crew’s spacecraft.

Michael Burry — the Big Short investor who famously predicted the 2008 housing collapse — broke a two-year silence this week to deliver another stark warning: that Big Tech’s AI-era profits are built on “one of the most common frauds in the modern era” — stretching or manipulating depreciation schedules.

Russia’s first domestically produced artificial intelligence–powered humanoid robot faceplanted during its debut public demonstration this week, underscoring the challenges the country faces in competing with established leaders in AI and robotics.

A team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has achieved a breakthrough by measuring the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at multiple points during its evolution.