Four-legged robots are starting to patrol fruit orchards, scanning leaves and counting berries where human agronomists used to walk row after row. In Chilean table grape blocks, one AI powered ...

On a long drive from Colombia’s Caribbean coast to the interior, a traveler spotted something unexpected on the roadside. Lying by the pavement near the town of Fusagasugá, just outside Bogotá, was a ...

The newly described archaeon Sukunaarchaeum mirabile carries the smallest known genome among Archaea and blurs life’s limits.

Anyone who has watched a phone die in the middle of a camping trip knows how quickly a fun weekend can turn stressful. A new portable wind turbine called Shine 2.0 promises to keep small devices ...

Calcium usually gets the spotlight when we talk about strong bones. Yet scientists now highlight magnesium as a quiet but crucial partner in keeping the skeleton dense and in lowering the long-term ...

Fast food chain The Wendy’s Company is preparing to close hundreds of restaurants across the United States, turning a familiar red sign into a goodbye message for many neighborhoods. By the company’s ...

In southern Mexico, bulldozers and rail crews are reshaping one of the narrowest slices of land on the continent. Millions of tons of earth are being moved to finish the Interoceanic Corridor of the ...

If you have stared at a power strip or new wall charger lately and noticed a mysterious purple USB port, you are not alone. That little splash of color usually signals extra speed and extra power, but ...

High in the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau, China has switched on a new giant that could generate about 11 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every year. The Lianghekoun hydropower plant now ranks ...

Satellites from NASA have captured active wildfires burning across snowy, frozen landscapes near the top of the world. The scenes, described by researchers as “fire in the ice,” appear in a new ...

Far out in the Pacific, near the tiny coral atoll of Minamitorishima Island about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo, a Japanese drill ship has just pulled off a world first. Using a long string of ...

Back in 2019, a group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences hiked up to Dagu Glacier in Sichuan and did something that sounded almost like science fiction. They unrolled huge white ...