There are far more trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel than most would expect. A combination of artificial intelligence and detailed satellite...

The top economist at the World Bank said in an interview on Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic is “morphing into a major economic crisis” and questioned the wisdom of central banks increasing their sway over the bond market.

Twitter has suspended several accounts posing as black supporters of Donald Trump ahead of the 3 November presidential election. The social media platform hasn’t specified how many accounts were taken down, but the company told the Washington Post that the accounts in question violated their rules of spam and platform manipulation.

Petrox is now level 29 with 1,890,780 XP.

Elon Musk's SpaceX and the US military plan to build a rocket capable of delivering 80 metric tons of cargo anywhere in the world in 60 minutes. Under a newly agreed contract, SpaceX will assess the costs and technical challenges of the project, while initial tests are expected in 2021, Gen. Stephen Lyons, the head of US Transportation Command, said Wednesday at a virtual conference.

There’s an art to being a performer whose face will never be seen.

SALEM, MA — The Satanic Temple (TST) has appealed a member’s reproductive rights case to the US Supreme Court in response to the Eighth Circuit Court’s dismissal of TST’s claim that Missouri abortion laws violate TST’s religious beliefs.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) weighed in on the issue of fracking during the vice presidential debate Wednesday night, tweeting that fracking is "bad" as the candidates debated environmental issues. “Fracking is bad, actually,” the New York congresswoman tweeted after Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) noted that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is not seeking to ban the practice.

The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.

Depressed individuals do not display an information-processing bias towards negative emotional stimuli, according to new research

Have you ever wondered how much your dog really loves you? Well, it turns out there's a scientific answer to this question.

Instead of optimizing work, technology has created a nonstop barrage of notifications and interactions. Six months into a pandemic, it's worse than ever.

Tour de France rookie Tadej Pogacar is the second youngest to win the event and the youngest since World War II.

Happiness might seem in short supply these days as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on: “fewer faces in bigger spaces,” smaller bubbles, less socializing and last call at 10 p.m. However, that early cutoff time at the bar just might do everyone some good. A new study on sleep deprivation by University of B.C. researcher and health psychologist Nancy Sin shows that if you don’t get enough sleep, not only are the lows lower, the highs are also lower as well.

“Upcycling,” a new technique of making food using discarded ingredients, is gaining momentum with entrepreneurs looking to create new food categories. Special Correspondent Allison Aubrey and Producer Mary Beth Durkin report on this growing food movement as part of NewsHours “Waste Not, Want Not” series.

Something amazing just happened a few minutes ago. Scientists have detected an unusually rare and toxic gas called phosphine in the clouds over venus. This is a gas that is usually generated by decomposing processes from biomatter. According to the researchers, there is no other explanation right now that could account for the sheer quantity of phosphine in Venus.

This week sees the resumption in London of the extradition hearing for Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. Assange faces charges in the U.S. of conspiring with Chelsea Manning and hackers to gain access to and publish classified information that embarrassed the government. It's an extraordinary proceeding which has American officials claiming that U.S. law applies to a foreign publisher, but that U.S. constitutional protections do not.

Long before the world had ever heard of covid-19, Kay Tye set out to answer a question that has taken on new resonance in the age of social distancing: When people feel lonely, do they crave social interactions in the same way a hungry person craves food? And could she and her colleagues detect and measure this “hunger” in the neural circuits of the brain?