Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen of dengue health centers and trained medical staff to attend the ever-growing needs of its population
March 02, 2024
Elected officials, community leaders and farmworkers on Saturday launched a project to significantly increase the amount of shade in unincorporated areas in the Eastern Coachella Valley, a major agricultural area in southern California where temperatures routinely top 100 degrees in the summer
March 02, 2024
A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting and lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbles down its sides toward the sea
March 03, 2024
Scientists in the United Kingdom have created mini organs from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb
March 04, 2024
New research suggests there’s less oxygen on the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa than thought
March 04, 2024
Scientists have confirmed the presence of a whale off New England that went extinct in the Atlantic Ocean two centuries ago
March 05, 2024
Tumbleweeds, the gnarled icon of the Old West, rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City
March 05, 2024
The wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the southwestern U.S. is still growing
March 05, 2024
Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe
March 06, 2024
A study raises more questions than it answers about how tiny specks of plastic might affect the heart
March 06, 2024
SpaceX is set to acquire public land from Texas after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved a land-swapping deal that would cede 43 acres to entrepreneur Elon Musk's company in exchange for 477 acres that are yet to be bought
March 06, 2024
Scientists calculate that for the ninth straight month Earth has obliterated global heat records
March 07, 2024
An unusually warm winter has left the Great Lakes all but devoid of ice and sent scientists scrambling to understand the possible consequences as climate change accelerates
March 07, 2024
Researchers and citizen scientists will observe how animals' routines at several zoos are disrupted during the April 8 total solar eclipse
March 07, 2024
A new Pentagon study that examined reported sightings of UFOs over nearly the last century has found no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence
March 08, 2024
Heat pumps that fit in an apartment window could make a big impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change
March 11, 2024
Florida wildlife officials say a sperm whale that became famous after beaching itself on a sandbar has died
March 11, 2024
The United Nations cultural and scientific agency says Ukraine will need more than a billion dollars to rebuild its scientific infrastructure that was damaged or destroyed during two years of Russia's war on its neighbor
March 11, 2024
A total solar eclipse is coming to North America
March 12, 2024
A new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks
March 13, 2024
Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients
March 13, 2024
College students, rocket scientists and math enthusiasts around the world are celebrating Pi Day
March 14, 2024
Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022
March 14, 2024
Tornado experts say the winter’s record warmth provided the key ingredient for a Midwest outbreak of deadly tornadoes and damaging gorilla hail that hit parts of the Midwest Wednesday and Thursday
March 15, 2024
A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky
March 16, 2024
AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared
With immigration and abortion on Arizona's ballot, Republicans are betting on momentum
Japan's Icom: highly unlikely wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon are our products
The US is more hands-off than usual in the Middle East. It fears making things worse
Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says
The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out
Phillies clinch 3rd straight playoff berth and close in on NL East title
Wojnarowski one of the first significant sports 'insiders' to step away from the spotlight