The air quality in the United States is dramatically declining, leaving about 150 million people -- nearly half of America's population -- breathing unhealthy, heavily polluted air, according to the newly released "State of the Air" 2020 report by the American Lung Association. "We're moving in the
The 2020 West Pacific typhoon season is off to a slow start. It took until Tuesday for the first named storm of the year -- Vongfong -- to form, but it has quickly become a threat to the Philippines. The West Pacific typhoon season doesn't have
On Thursday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight. Welcome to what we call "the new abnormal." This phrase describes the catastrophically dangerous world in which we live. We have to go back 66 years, to 1953, to find
For better or worse, we're getting more Donald Trump these days. If you feel like you are hearing the President's voice all the time, you are not imagining things. Trump is talking and tweeting more in 2019 than he did in 2018 -- which was, in turn, far
A rocket blazed into space Thursday afternoon carrying 34 OneWeb satellites. It's the latest sign that 2020 will be a year in which new devices are deployed into Earth's orbit at an unprecedented pace as OneWeb and rivalSpaceX race to make global broadband a reality. The OneWeb
Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has declassified a list of names of former Obama administration officials who allegedly requested the "unmasking" of Donald Trump's first national security adviser Michael Flynn's identity, a senior ODNI official confirmed Tuesday. But it remains unclear why the DNI did not
Civil rights activist and longtime Rep. John Lewis occupies a rare space of bipartisan respect in US politics and the trailer for the new documentary "John Lewis: Good Trouble" chronicles the moments of his life that have shaped his place in American history. Directed by Dawn
The Pentagon has officially released three short videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" that had previously been released by a private company. The videos show what appear to be unidentified flying objects rapidly moving while recorded by infrared cameras. Two of the videos contain service members reacting in awe
One of the big questions facing policymakers is whether to push ahead with their climate and environmental goals or to relax them during the global health pandemic. The Trump administration is choosing the latter, arguing that the regulatory pressures on business are, well, bad for
When people think about artificial intelligence, they often think about what intelligence machines can do on their own, without human interaction. However, some of the most powerful and useful AI systems are those that help or augment human capability. The idea of AI systems that
