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Scientists win World Food Prize for work on Global Seed Vault
Scientists Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler, who on Thursday received the prestigious World Food Prize for "their work to preserve the world's heritage of seeds", are on a mission.Their vocation is to...
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In first, Vermont ready to make fossil fuel giants pay for climate damage
Offering a model for others to follow, Vermont this week became the first state in the nation to pass legislation that would require fossil fuel giants to pay for the damage and disruption caused by...
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'World coming to an end': Kenyan town copes with life underwater
Abdi Hussein sat alone on a Kenyan road strewn with ramshackle tents bound with plastic strings and covered with tarpaulins, peering into the sea of rust-coloured flood water.The deluge had claimed...
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Hotter, drier, sicker? How a changing planet drives disease
Humans have made our planet warmer, more polluted and ever less hospitable to many species, and these changes are driving the spread of infectious disease.Warmer, wetter climates can expand the range...
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Einstein and anime: Hong Kong university tests AI professors
Using virtual reality headsets, students at a Hong Kong university travel to a pavilion above the clouds to watch an AI-generated Albert Einstein explain game theory.The students are part of a course...
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Do zinc products really help shorten a cold? It's hard to say
You feel a cold coming on, or maybe it's already upon you: the telltale cough, sore throat and stuffy head. You swing by the drugstore, where a shelf full of over-the-counter products containing the...
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Envious shamans and pollution: Diverse threats to Ecuadoran Amazon
When fish numbers diminished in the Ecuadoran Amazon, the Siona Indigenous people blamed envious, rival shamans for blocking the animals' passage through the rivers of Cuyabeno, a biodiverse...
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AI systems are already deceiving us, and that's a problem, experts warn
Experts have long warned about the threat posed by artificial intelligence going rogue -- but a new research paper suggests it's already happening.Current AI systems, designed to be honest, have...
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First 'extreme' solar storm in 20 years brings spectacular auroras
The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday, triggering spectacular celestial light shows from Tasmania to Britain -- and threatening possible disruptions to...
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Engineering mini human hearts to study pregnancy complications and birth defects
How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive.Researchers know the heart is the first organ to fully function in...
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Wearable devices can now harvest our brain data
Recent trends show Australians are increasingly buying wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. These electronics track our body movements or vital signs to provide data throughout the...
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Northern Lights may glow again as intense solar storm continues
Stargazers in New Jersey — and many states across the nation — who woke up early Saturday morning were treated to a dazzling sky show as a powerful solar storm caused the colorful Northern Lights to...
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U.S. man who received first-ever modified pig kidney transplant dies
The world's first patient with a transplanted pig kidney has died, almost two months after the operation. In March, Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted the genetically-edited pig kidney into...
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Watch: CNN host screams as cicada flies around the set
CNN's Amara Walker on Sunday screamed loudly after a cicada began flying around on the set.The cicada in question was brought by Dr. Saad Bhamla, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular...
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Second night of auroras seen during 'extreme' solar storm
WASHINGTON — Auroras lit up skies across swaths of the planet for the second night in a row on Saturday, after already dazzling Earthlings from the United States to Tasmania to the Bahamas the day...
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Fox News host pushes risky abortion 'reversal' pill that is 'not supported by...
Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy pushed women who are having abortions to seek a "reversal" of the process even though the procedure is not supported by scientific studies.After a Mother's Day...
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Cambodia's famed Kampot pepper withers in scorching heatwave
Farmer Chhim Laem shakes his head as he walks between long rows of dead bushes, their brown leaves scorched by heat and drought that have devastated Cambodia's famed Kampot pepper crop.Known for its...
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Identity crisis: Climate destroying wonders that gave U.S. parks their names
Glacier National Park's ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are ablaze. And even the tenacious cacti of Saguaro National Park are struggling to endure a decades-long...
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AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilizations
Artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now looking towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI) — a form of AI...
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Small but mighty, plankton are some of the most powerful creatures on Earth
If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you might at first think it contains lifeless water. But examine that water under a microscope and you will see your bucket contains a universe of...
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