Google has backed FireSat, a constellation of satellites intended to detect, track, and perhaps even prevent wildfires from ...

Amid an outbreak of recent wildfires in California, Google announced a commitment to spend $13 million to improve satellite ...

Nov. 11, 2024 — Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves ...

The FireSat system can detect fires as small as 16 by 16 feet (about the size of a classroom) and deliver refreshed images every 20 minutes. That's a huge improvement over current satellites that ...

At Mar-a-Lago, ‘Uncle’ Elon Musk Puts His Imprint on the Trump Transition He’s on the patio. He’s on the golf course. Everywhere President-elect Trump looks, there is the world’s richest ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural ...

Houston has at least 170 "dangerous" buildings, including run-down apartments, a burned-down restaurant, an old HISD school, and most recently, the building where a firefighter died after a wall ...

November 12, 2024 • A federal judge sentenced Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guard member, to prison after he pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about ...

Jennifer Doudna, the co-developer of CRISPR, says there’s a “coming revolution” in climate-adapted crops and animals. Jennifer Doudna, one of the inventors of the breakthrough gene-editing ...

Justin Welby, the leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, announced his resignation days after a report found he had taken insufficient action over claims of abuse. By Stephen Castle and Mark ...

A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won the election, in New York City, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo ...