There was a time when a telecommunications company measured success by the number of calls completed or text messages sent. Today, the battlefield has changed.

Just as an AI-driven boom in business investment bolstered US economic growth earlier this year.

The municipal government of Ise, Japan, has developed a new textile called “Isewashitex” using the traditional craft of Ise washi Japanese paper.

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan’s Fukui Prefecture said it shut down a reactor after discovering a steam leak near a high-pressure turbine.

Protecting pollinators such as bees and hoverflies can improve both human nutrition and household incomes.

Philippine Digital Economy Expands to ₱2.74T, Accounts for 9.8% of GDP — PSA The Philippines’ digital economy grew to ₱2.74 trillion in 2025, accounting for 9.8% of gross domestic product (GDP).

Japan Airlines will begin testing humanoid robots for ground handling tasks at Haneda Airport starting May, in a two-year trial aimed at easing workforce strain.

The administration of Donald Trump has removed all members of the National Science Board, according to two former members.

A powerful earthquake struck off northeastern Japan, prompting a tsunami warning that was later downgraded to an advisory.

Get ready to hear much more about El Niño in the coming months — and possibly beyond — as the infamous climate cycle returns, developing and intensifying in the Pacific Ocean near the equator.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has warned that while most wealth has gone to asset owners, AI could worsen inequality unless more people share in market growth.

The dominance of China’s open-source artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a “self-reinforcing competitive advantage,” allowing it to challenge U.S. rivals despite restricted access to advanced AI chips.

Major Japanese electronics manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of determining whether a driver is intoxicated using facial images and other behavioral indicators captured by an in-vehicle camera.

The biggest prize in computer science, the A.M. Turing Award, has for the first time honored work in the quantum realm.

A high school student in Virginia has invented a home filtration system that eliminates about 96% of microplastics in water.

China could see brain-computer interface (BCI) technology move into practical public use within three to five years as products mature.

A recent study published in the journal Nature predicts that only Australia and New Zealand could remain relatively survivable after a global nuclear war, while about five billion people could perish.

Investors, economists and ordinary Americans are understandably obsessed with the pros and cons of AI’s rapid advances.

China’s most senior semiconductor executives have issued a public call for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to Dutch lithography giant ASML.

For more than a decade, a trend has emerged in standardized testing data for students in Utah.

Recently, lawmakers, regulators, technologists, and civil society leaders gathered around a question that has begun to haunt the Philippines’ digital ambitions.

Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of the US Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which investigates unidentified flying objects, said people expecting evidence of alien life on Earth may be disappointed.

The Trump administration is set to revoke a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for US action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

The Supreme Court ruled in a 2007 case that planet-warming greenhouse gases (GHG), caused by the burning of oil and other fossil fuels, are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.