Mosquito-Borne Dengue Grows Deadlier in South Asia as Planet Warms

Mosquito-borne dengue fever is taking a heavy toll on South Asian nations this year as Bangladesh grapples with record deaths and Nepal faces cases in new areas, with disease experts …

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Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Poor Things’ Wins Top Prize at Venice

The Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival was awarded Saturday to a hilarious and shockingly explicit reworking of Frankenstein, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a sex-mad reanimated corpse. …

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AI Technology Behind ChatGPT Built in Iowa Using Lots of Water

The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from …

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In US, Funding for Original Art Part of Most New Federal Buildings’ Budgets

Since its founding, the United States has incorporated art into its federal buildings. These days, one-half of one percent of a new building’s budget usually goes to funding original art …

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Hurricane Lee Charting New Course in Weather, Could Signal More Monster Storms

Hurricane Lee is rewriting old rules of meteorology, leaving experts astonished at how rapidly it grew into a goliath Category 5 hurricane. Lee could also be a dreadful harbinger of …

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Mental, Physical Tolls of Tennis Season Weigh on Players by Time of US Open

Novak Djokovic considers his mental state just as important as his physical condition when it comes to being prepared to play his best at age 36. “Mentally there is probably …

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FAA: SpaceX Can’t Launch Giant Rocket Again Until Fixes Are Made

SpaceX must take a series of steps before it can launch its mega rocket again after its debut ended in an explosion, federal regulators said Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration …

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World Public Broadcasters Say Switch From Analog to Digital Radio, TV Remains Slow

Members of the International Radio and Television Union from about 50 countries, meeting this week in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, say a lack of infrastructure and human and financial resources …

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Japan Faces Criticism Over Fukushima Wastewater Release

More than a decade after a tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Japan’s Pacific coast, the country has begun releasing the treated wastewater that has been accumulating …

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Ailing US Explorer Trapped 1,000 Meters Deep in Turkish Cave Awaits Difficult Rescue

Rescuers from across Europe rushed to a cave in Turkey on Thursday, launching an operation to save an American researcher who became trapped almost 1,000 meters below the cave’s entrance …

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Huawei Phone Kicks off Debate About US Chip Restrictions

It started with an image of U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on her China trip last month, reportedly taken on what the Chinese tech giant Huawei is touting as a …

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Scientists Grow Kidneys Containing Human Cells in Pig Embryos

Chinese scientists have succeeded in growing kidneys containing human cells in pig embryos, a world first that could one day help address organ donation shortages.     But the finding, …

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Ukraine, US Intelligence Suggest Russia Cyber Efforts Evolving, Growing

Russia’s cyber operations may not have managed to land the big blow that many Western officials feared following Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but Ukrainian cyber officials caution Moscow …

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Hurricane Lee Could Become Atlantic’s 1st Category 5 Storm of Season

Hurricane Lee whirled through open waters on Thursday as forecasters warned it could become the first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season.  Lee was not expected to make landfall …

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Activists Screen Climate-Themed Films During Africa Climate Summit

As delegates gather in Kenya for the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, seeking ways to combat the effects of climate change, activists are screening films illustrating the impacts of global warming …

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Report: China Using AI to Mess With US Voters

China is turning to artificial intelligence to rile up U.S. voters and stoke divisions ahead of the country’s 2024 presidential elections, according to a new report. Threat analysts at Microsoft …

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Sudanese Artists Work to Heal From Trauma of War

It has been nearly five months since civil war erupted in Sudan. The U.N. refugee agency estimates that by year’s end, 1.8 million people will have fled to neighboring countries. …

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Japan Launches Rocket Carrying Lunar Lander, X-Ray Telescope

Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as a small lunar lander. The launch of the HII-A rocket …

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Summer ’23 Was Northern Hemisphere’s Hottest Ever, Agencies Say

Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization. …

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What Is Green Hydrogen and Why Is It Touted as a Clean Fuel?

Green hydrogen is being touted around the world as a clean energy solution to take the carbon out of high-emitting sectors like transport and industrial manufacturing. The India-led International Solar …

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Israel Unveils Roman-Era Weapons Found in Desert Cave

Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday displayed four Roman-era swords and a javelin discovered inside a cave in the Judean desert, where they had been preserved for nearly 1,900 years. The archaeologists …

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