
A shallow quake centered in the country's interior toppled a colonial-era cathedral and a hotel, sent residents into the streets of Panama City, and briefly put eleven neighboring countries on tsunami alert.
Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue backed a $1 billion round for the viral personal-assistant app, intensifying a race with Meta's rival agent, Muse.
Third-quarter revenue topped Wall Street forecasts on strong international growth, even as PepsiCo lowered its core earnings guidance for the year.
Spot rates on trans-Pacific lanes are still running more than four times pre-crisis levels, but freight analytics firm Xeneta says the surge has topped out and a gradual cooldown — not a collapse — is coming.
A Wood Mackenzie report finds four-hour battery storage now beats gas peaker plants on cost in all 43 markets it modeled, as AI data centers buy up scarce turbines and strain power grids worldwide.
An update to the world's most comprehensive review of e-cigarette trials found high-certainty evidence that nicotine vapes help more smokers quit than traditional nicotine replacement therapy, though researchers stress they are not risk-free.
A newly identified trigger for one of nature's most common antiviral systems could one day help researchers engineer phage therapies that slip past bacterial immune defenses.
Using only its own archive for the first time, the CHIME telescope picked out a whisper-faint cosmic signal that could let astronomers probe the universe's accelerating expansion without relying on costly galaxy surveys.

The Toronto-born poet and classicist becomes only the second Canadian-born writer honored with literature's biggest prize, for a body of work that has spent decades blending verse, essay and grief into new forms.