On Tuesday, a paper signed by more than 11,000 scientists declaring a climate emergency was published in the journal BioScience. The signatories included climate scientists and researchers from other fields, such as microbiology, glaciology and oceanography. However, at least one name on the list is raising questions: Micky (sic) Mouse from the Micky Mouse Institute for…

The Saudi government recruited two Twitter employees to get personal account information belonging to their critics, prosecutors said Wednesday. A complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco detailed a co-ordinated effort by Saudi government officials to recruit employees at the social media giant to look up the private data of thousands of Twitter accounts.…

Video of a driverless Tesla moving at a brisk walking pace at a mall parking lot in Richmond, B.C. — sometimes in the wrong lane — raises questions about what is and isn’t legal when regulations don’t come close to capturing the advances or potential dangers of self-driving vehicles. According to a story originally published Monday by the Richmond News, the car was likely activated with Tesla’s…

Video of a driverless Tesla cruising through a mall parking lot in Richmond — sometimes in the wrong lane — raises questions about what is and isn’t legal when regulations don’t come close to capturing the advances or dangers of self-driving vehicles. According to the story originally published in the Richmond News, the car was likely activated through Tesla’s Smart Summon, which rolled out in…

An artist’s reconstruction shows what Danuvius guggenmosi, the earliest ape able to walk upright, might have looked like. (Velizar Simeonovski) The remains of an ancient ape found in a Bavarian clay pit suggest that humans’ ancestors began standing upright millions of years earlier than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday. An international team of researchers says…

Chestnuts harvested from high branches on a chilly fall morning look typical: they’re marble sized, russet coloured and nestled in prickly burs. But many are like no other nuts in nature. In a feat of genetic engineering, about half the chestnuts collected at this college experiment station feature a gene that provides resistance to blight…