Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which ...

An Alphabet Inc. vendor, Hitachi Ltd., illegally restricted a group of Google artificial intelligence contract staff from discussing their pay and fired one of them for starting conversations ...

Google -- all its apps, smartphones, and the cloud business -- is responsible for 99% of Alphabet's total revenue. But Alphabet is toiling away on quite a few moonshot projects. What if one of ...

The Olympic Opening Ceremony's controversy has renewed interest in divine dinners, during which sitting down for food is more than a meal.

For Samantha, it was classic “dad lore” that the internet would devour. Lore is valuable online currency these days. A finalist for Oxford Dictionary’s 2024 word of the year (it lost to ...

Since early February, the Greek island of Santorini has been hit by a swarm of earthquakes. While Greece is located in a region where earthquakes are relatively common, this intense, prolonged barrage ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

“A lot of the myths are a product of snobbery coming from older men,” says Mitch Bechard, a whisky entrepreneur and consultant based in Aberdeen, Scotland. “This kind of snobbery goes back a ...

We practically don't associate them with Greek cuisine. Yet, even in this sunny country, it can get chilly, and such dishes are handy. I was enchanted by the taste of a soup that can be somewhat ...

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The odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 now stand at 1-in-32, or a 3.1 percent chance of collision, according to the latest data from NASA. On February 7, NASA upped the likelihood of the ...

The odds of a recently discovered asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032 have slightly increased, but one local scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said there’s no need to worry.