Unpredictable rains and increasing heat are making life more difficult for the people of Rayanpet, a village in southern India. The conditions are also damaging the rice crops grown there. P. Ravinder Reddy, a former soldier, started farming on his f...
Two early developers of artificial intelligence (AI) have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. American John Hopfield is with Princeton University in New Jersey. Geoffrey Hinton is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Tor...
Two Americans have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of genetic material called microRNA. Victor Ambros is a professor at the University of Massachusetts and Gary Ruvkun is a Harvard University professor. The Nobe...
Camille Stevens-Rumann recently sat on the ground and measured small trees to see how much they had grown in seven months. She found they had grown five to 10 centimeters. Her team had planted several different kinds of trees, known as evergreens, tw...
Scientists have discovered a small asteroid that recently moved closer to Earth's orbit. The object was first observed August 7 by two astronomers from Spain's Complutense University of Madrid. The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, is believed to be about 10...
The Argentine town of Hilario Ascasubi near the country's Atlantic coast has a problem not many places have ever had. It has too many parrots. Biologists say thousands of the green-yellow-and-red birds have invaded the town. These experts say defores...
Mount Everest, standing 8.85 kilometers above sea level, is Earth's tallest mountain. And Mount Everest is still growing. Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing on an upward movement that began at their birth around 50 million yea...
A new study suggests sources of water on the moon are more widespread than previously thought. The study was based on new examinations of data collected by India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. It launched in October 2008 and collected data while orbitin...
Scientists say they have found the largest jets of energy ever observed shooting out of a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets extend 23 million light years from end to end. That is about 140 times the width of our Milky Way Galaxy. The galaxy re...
California recently enacted three legislative measures that ban the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create false images and videos during election campaigns. The laws - which are among the strongest in the U.S. - aim to reduce the use of...
The American space agency NASA has cleared a spacecraft to launch next month to look for possible signs of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. Agency officials announced plans for the Europa Clipper spacecraft at a press briefing last week. The launch win...
The United States Congress has honored four women known as the hidden figures of the space race with its highest civilian award. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented Wednesday to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson...
Some police departments in the United States are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help them produce incident reports. Police officers who have tried the AI chatbots praise the technology as a time-saver. Yet some government la...
Climate change pressures have led some companies to try growing cocoa in new environments to produce chocolate. Some of the companies have set up growing operations in laboratories to produce cocoa from cell cultures. Others are experimenting with no...
The four-member crew of a private space flight has returned to Earth after a trip that included the first-ever spacewalks by non-professional astronauts. American business leader Jared Isaacman organized and paid for the five-day mission, called Pola...
