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Artificial intelligence data centers are popping up across America, spurring fierce backlash because of their need for huge amounts of water...

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, will be going public and is expected to become the largest IPO in stock market history. Mus...

The World Cup kicked off on Thursday as South Africa squared off against Mexico, one of this year's host countries. Several American cities...

The Trump administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul on how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants. But r...

Scientists across the country are expressing alarm as the Trump administration dismantles another tool for understanding how the planet is c...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on the launchpad during a test in Cape Canaveral on Thursday. The company, owned by Jeff Bezos, said...

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There's real concern about the growing prevalence of the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies in higher education. But some...

Pope Leo called for artificial intelligence to be "disarmed" in his first papal encyclical, urging major regulation to protect against poten...

Unexplained sightings have appeared in our skies for years, and now the U.S. government has started releasing declassified files about what...

Markets to offset carbon emissions are now worth about $2 billion annually, and supporters say they're a key tool to address climate change....

The European Union's climate commissioner has told the 27-country bloc that the only way out of energy crises fueled by the wars in Iran and...

Roughly one in ten Americans gets their water from the Colorado River. But a worsening drought, driven in part by climate change, is drying...

Coral reefs are essential to the health of oceans, the food supply and to protecting the coast from storms. But as climate change pushes oce...

The COVID pandemic overwhelmed our health care system and killed well over a million Americans. Fast-tracked vaccines saved millions, but mi...

International Dark Sky Week is hailed as a global celebration of the night and a call for less light pollution. In some cities international...

For thousands of years, humans have tried to avoid growing old. Billions are spent every year on potions and procedures to make us look youn...

As the impact from the war in Iran grinds on, Americans are feeling it at the gas station. Evangelists for clean energy say the oil shock is...

Americans are anxious about their jobs and whether artificial intelligence is coming for them. Some prominent voices call it catastrophic, o...

The four-astronaut crew of NASA's Artemis II flew to the far side of the moon and set a record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled...