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17-year-old works to detect wildfires with rocket ...
Canadian teenager Jason Zhao explains his idea of launching a small rocket that will launch a drone upon landing in orde...
Concrete made from sugarcane could help fight clim...
Scientists in London are testing a form of concrete called sugarcrete which is made from fibrous material left over from...
New research could solve the mystery behind the co...
More than 30 pyramids in Egypt, including in Giza, may have been built along a branch of the Nile that has long since di...
World's oceans have gone 'crazy haywire,' official...
Oceans are record-hot, and nearly two-thirds of the world’s coral reefs have experienced heat stress at levels high enou...
Cities look for new ways to keep people safe — and...
As summer approaches, preparations for extreme heat are well underway for months in parts of the country that were hit h...
Mona Lisa's mysterious background decrypted by art...
Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, an academic believes she has unraveled the mystery about t...
First crewed launch of Boeing's spacecraft is dela...
Boeing’s first Starliner mission carrying astronauts into space has been delayed again over an issue with the spacecraft...
Orcas sink yacht with 2 aboard in Strait of Gibral...
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spa...
Big banks still funnel hundreds of billions into t...
Over $700 billion flowed into companies conducting business in fossil fuels last year, funneled by 60 of the largest pri...
In the mystery of Florida’s bizarre spinning fish,...
A mysterious ailment causing fish in the Florida Keys to spin in circles and die has touched off a race to find the caus...
Severe solar storm will bring beauty in the sky an...
A spectacular light show caused by violent eruptions from the sun will be visible in parts of the country that rarely ge...
China launches Chang’e 6 lunar probe, revving up s...
China launched its Chang’e 6 lunar probe on Friday in a first-of-its-kind mission to bring back samples from the far sid...
Democrats say Big Oil misled public for decades ab...
Major oil companies have misled Americans for decades about the threat of human-caused climate change, according to a ne...
Grizzly bears are set to be reintroduced to Washin...
Grizzly bears will be reintroduced to Washington state’s North Cascade mountain range, federal agencies say — a decision...
Inside NASA's 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 ...
After months of trying to reestablish communication with the Voyager 1 probe — the most distant human-made object in exi...
FDA approves Pfizer’s first gene therapy for rare ...
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Pfizer’s treatment for a rare genetic bleeding disorder, making it t...
New EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants ...
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the...