2022: A Year for Clean Energy More governments increased plans to support renewable energy and reduce emissions from fossil fuels, like oil and gas, in 2022. In India, the government plans to send $2.6 billion to support the manufacture of equipment...
5 Interesting AI Tools Announced in 2022 Throughout the past year, we followed some interesting new inventions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Here is a look back at five notable AI developments in 2022. Meta's speech-to-speech translat...
The American space agency NASA's Mars explorer has begun dropping rock samples it collected on the planet's surface. A different spacecraft is to recover the samples at a future date and return them to Earth. The Perseverance explorer, or rover, land...
Scientists Freeze Great Barrier Reef Coral Scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have successfully tested a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae. Larvae are the very young form of the small ocean animal. Coral creates reefs...
Nevada Fossil Site Could Be Ancient Reptile Birthing Area Scientists have found new information about an area in the American state of Nevada that contains fossils of giant marine reptiles. Scientists previously thought it was a place where they came...
Indian City Expands Facial Recognition Technology to Fight Crime Officials in the Indian city of Hyderabad say police there depend on facial recognition technology to fight crime. Hyderabad is the capital of India's south-central state of Telangana....
Fortnite Game Maker to Pay $520 Million for Privacy, Payment Abuses The creator of video game Fortnite has agreed to pay a total of $520 million in government fines and repayments. A government agency that oversees trade accused Fortnite of illegally...
Elon Musk May Stop Running Twitter On Sunday, Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking users if he should step down as chief of the social media company. The billionaire businessman bought Twitter in October for $44 billion. Musk wrote: Should I ste...
Historic Agreement Reached at UN Environment Meeting Negotiators at a United Nations environmental conference in Canada reached a historic deal Monday. It aims to protect the world's lands and oceans and provides financing to save biodiversity in the...
Study: Tonga Volcano Blasted Particles and Water High into Atmosphere New research shows that the Tonga volcano sent large amounts of particles and water vapor into the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere. Scientists used satellite equipment to measu...
Companies Develop Technologies to Deal with Food Waste Restaurants, farmers, and food businesses are turning to chemistry and physics to deal with the problem of food waste. Some companies are testing coverings to slow the ripening process in fruit a...
NASA to Study Water around the World from Space A NASA-led international mission launched a radar satellite from southern California early on Friday. The satellite will be involved in a major project to research the world's oceans, lakes and rivers....
Kenya Drought Kills Hundreds of Wild Animals Officials in Kenya say severe drought conditions in a northern area have killed hundreds of wild animals in recent months. Many animals that do survive are starving and weak. They often come in contact wit...
Companies Develop Robots to Make Clothes Large clothing and technology companies, including Siemens AG and Levi Strauss Co., are developing robots to make clothes. The process of using robots or computers for human work, known as automation, has rais...
US Scientists Announce Major Advance in Fusion Development American scientists have announced a major scientific breakthrough in the long-sought search for a way to use nuclear fusion to produce energy. The announcement came Tuesday during a briefing...
