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America's first human death from bird flu reported in Louisiana
Bird flu continues to spread across the United States after jumping from chickens and turkeys to cow milk and humans. The first death was reported this week in Louisiana after a 65-year-old man with...
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Planning for spring’s garden? Bees like variety and don’t care about your...
In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen. In turn, pollinators rely on flowers for food, including both nectar and pollen. If you’re a gardener, you might want...
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Brain monitoring may be the future of work – how it could improve employee...
Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work – such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers, artificial intelligence and so on – researchers in the field...
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Iraqi archaeologists piece together ancient treasures ravaged by IS
A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments.Once the...
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U.S. company Firefly Aerospace to launch for Moon next week
U.S. company Firefly Aerospace said Tuesday it is aiming to launch a lander to the Moon next week under an experimental NASA program that partners with the commercial sector to reduce costs.If...
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In Brazil, an Amazon reforestation project seeks to redeem carbon markets
by Anna PELEGRIIn the Brazilian Amazon, workers use metal tubes to sow seedlings in rapid succession, as part of an effort to reforest the jungle with millions of trees.The project has financial...
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Trump throws new all-caps Truth Social tantrum blaming Democrats for...
President-elect Donald Trump continued his rants about the California wildfires on Wednesday afternoon by once again blaming the ordeal on Democrats. Trump for years has claimed that California is...
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U.S. emissions stagnate in 2024, challenging climate goals: study
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions barely decreased in 2024, leaving the world's largest economy off track to achieve its climate goals, according to an analysis released Thursday, as the incoming Trump...
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U.S. astronauts upbeat seven months into eight-day mission
Two U.S. astronauts who have been stuck for months on the International Space Station (ISS) said Wednesday they have plenty of food, are not facing a laundry crisis, and don't yet feel like...
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Japan startup hopeful ahead of second moon launch
Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned Moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned from its failed attempt nearly two years ago.In April 2023, the firm's first...
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2024 warmest year on record for mainland U.S.: agency
Last year set a record for high temperatures across the mainland United States, with the nation also pummeled by a barrage of tornadoes and destructive hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Logging off life but living on: How AI is redefining death, memory and...
Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories. This happened at the funeral of Marina Smith, a Holocaust educator who...
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From anecdotes to AI tools, how doctors make medical decisions is evolving...
The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal...
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Nuclear fusion may be a clean energy source – engineering challenges stand in...
The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source of clean...
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Robots set to move beyond factory as AI advances
Today's robots perform safety checks at industrial plants, conduct quality control in manufacturing, and are even starting to keep hospital patients company.But soon -- perhaps very soon -- these...
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Five things to know about New Glenn, Blue Origin's new rocket
by Charlotte CAUSITBlue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, has postponed the maiden voyage into orbital space of its brand-new rocket, New Glenn, due to...
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Tech companies are turning to ‘synthetic data’ to train AI – but there’s a...
Last week the billionaire and owner of X, Elon Musk, claimed the pool of human-generated data that’s used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT has run out. Musk didn’t cite...
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New research reveals why saber-toothed predators evolved their deadly teeth
Saber teeth – the long, sharp, blade-like canines found in extinct predators such as Smilodon – represent one of the most extreme dental adaptations in nature. They evolved at least five times...
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Big Oil attacks on Hawaii climate lawsuit
Climate campaigners and scientists on Monday welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject attempts by fossil fuel giants to quash the Hawaii capital's lawsuit aiming to hold the major...
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Scientific community issues fresh warning to Congress as 'radical' Trump returns
With a president-elect who has called the climate crisis a "hoax" and vowed to gut fossil fuel drilling regulations poised to take office in one week, more than 50,000 scientists and advocates on...
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