About half of Nigeria's 200 million people cannot get enough electricity from the country's electrical grid. Many poor, rural communities have no electrical service at all. Nigeria has a lot of sunny weather and solar energy appears to be a good way...
A recent report by environmental researchers says that protecting 1.2 percent of the Earth's land surface could prevent most extinctions. Extinction is the permanent disappearance of an animal or plant from the Earth. The researchers estimated that s...
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools continue to expand in the workplace. And some U.S. states have launched specialized programs to train workers on how to deal with the new technologies. Many industries are expected to heavily depend on a series of t...
Weather experts say the storm Hurricane Beryl might represent the beginning of a very active and dangerous hurricane season. It's the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Central American basin, a World Meteorologica...
South Sudan is home to what some wildlife experts say is the world's largest land animal migration, or seasonal movement of animals. But government officials fear illegal hunting threatens the animals and may hurt the development of a sustainable tou...
Researchers in Shanghai are developing a robot guide dog that could help blind people. The robot is currently being tested in Shanghai. The machine uses cameras and sensors to navigate its environment. It is able to recognize traffic light signals wh...
Researchers say a new study on an ancient pig-like animal is helping them learn more about brain development in mammals. The animal is known as Gordonia. It is believed to have lived more than 250 million years ago in what is present-day Scotland. Ba...
The method of making electricity from the Earth's natural heat has been moving forward quietly for many years. Recently, that effort has reached a milestone with a big, new project. Southern California Edison announced it will buy electricity from Fe...
Two American astronauts have been delayed at the International Space Station (ISS) while engineers try to fix problems with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. Starliner is a joint project between Boeing and the American space agency NASA. The capsule arr...
The coastal Nigerian community of Ayetoro was founded in 1947. Often called a Happy City, it was meant to be a Christian utopia, or perfect place. But now its remaining people can do little against the rising sea. Sunken buildings are an increasingly...
Denmark will tax farm animals such as cattle and pigs for releasing methane, a kind of greenhouse gas, starting in 2030. Some scientists think that greenhouse gases trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere causing rising temperatures. The European country...
Space researchers have observed a big increase in energy at the center of a distant galaxy caused by a very large black hole. They say the discovery could be meaningful for our own Milky Way galaxy. In a recent research paper, space scientists said a...
Shares in American technology company Nvidia have risen sharply during the past year. The increases have given the company a market valuation of more than $3 trillion. Last week, the price of Nvidia's shares made it the world's most valuable company...
A species of wild cat in Europe that was almost extinct, or about to disappear, over 20 years ago has returned. Last week, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared that the Iberian lynx is no longer an endangered species. Na...
A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with rock and soil samples recently collected from the moon. A parachute Tuesday floated the unmanned Chang'e-6 capsule back to earth in China's Inner Mongolia area. The return flight came after Chinese spac...
