Throughout 2024, we saw further development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and new legal action brought against technology companies. Here is a look back at some of the biggest tech stories we covered in 2024. AI continues to expand During t...
A large frog species that lived alongside dinosaurs and is considered a living fossil is now losing ground in its native Chile. Climate change and human actions are damaging the creature's living environment, or habitat. The Helmeted Water Toad is on...
Nearly half of American teenagers - children ages 13 to 17 - say they are online constantly despite concerns about the effects of social media and smartphones on their mental health. The information comes from a report that was recently released by t...
As we near the end of 2024, we are looking back at the top terms people searched for on Google during the year. Each year, Google releases its Year in Search report. It includes terms that saw the biggest rise in traffic compared to the year earlier....
Recent research suggests that Saturn's rings may be older than they look - and possibly as old as the planet itself. Instead of being 400 million years old as some had thought, the icy rings could be the same age as Saturn: 4.5 billion years old. A J...
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose... This classic song written by Bob Wells and Mel Torm in 1944 has long brought to mind the image of Christmas for generations of Americans. At one time, the American Chestnut was am...
Researchers in Australia are using a robot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the way farmers raise cattle. The robot has four wheels and is painted red. Researchers have named the robot cow SwagBot. It can drive by itself and move co...
The American space agency NASA says it has found the likely cause of a crash that grounded its Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The finding comes after NASA said it had carried out the first aircraft accident investigation on another world. Ingenuity arriv...
U.S. cybersecurity officials are advising people to use encryption in their communications after a major hacking campaign. Federal officials released a list of security suggestions for U.S. telecommunications companies that were targeted. The advice...
Indonesia and the Philippines aim to increase their use of geothermal energy to move away from highly polluting fossil fuels. However, money issues, governmental rules, and community protests have slowed the growth of geothermal energy production. Ge...
Data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed earlier information suggesting the universe is expanding at a faster rate than scientists had expected. The new finding is based on measurements collected by the Webb over the past two ye...
Google recently said that it had solved a major problem in supercomputing with a new generation of processor called Willow. Along with other technology companies such as Microsoft and International Business Machines (IBM), Google, whose parent compan...
Two European satellites were recently launched on a mission that will include a simulated total solar eclipse. The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the satellites on December 5 from southern India aboard an Indian-built rocket. ESA says its Proba...
A new study finds that the first humans to live in North America depended heavily on mammoths and other large animals for food. The finding is based on examinations of the diet of a woman who lived about 13,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. She...
TikTok has asked a U.S. appeals court to temporarily block a law requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to divest itself of the popular video sharing service, or face a U.S. ban. The legal request comes after the same federal appeals court last wee...
