SOS is widely recognized as the universal distress signal, but contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t stand for anything. When it was introduced in the early 20th century, SOS was simply a Morse code ...

Traditional skills are disappearing from the modern world as digital tools reshape daily life and how people learn.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) established a broader emergency communication protocol that includes the ...

Tech CEOs are making ambitious claims about AI's coding capabilities. In March, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said "we'll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code." Meta's ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The majority of plants have leaves, petals and seed structures in spirals that follow the Fibonacci sequence, meaning each sequence is the sum of the ...

California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter refused to say whether more videos exist of her exploding at staffers – after several shocking clips revealing her fiery temper went viral last week.

Blast these songs out your front door when the trick-or-treaters are going by and you’ll have the least popular house on the black — and plenty of candy left over on November 1. Robert Johnson, ...

Moderna has shared some of the phase 1/2 data that persuaded it to expand and prioritize development of a cancer candidate, reporting responses in melanoma patients failed by checkpoint inhibitors.

How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or even new kinds of profanity, dictionary editors have been at the center of ...

Coming off their agonizingly close loss to the Seattle Mariners in the American League Division Series, the Detroit Tigers are turning their attentions to the coming offseason and their status as ...