The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history. The Texas-based organization is announcing at its annual meeting in Florida on Tuesday that it will become Scouting America.

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

Two years ago, sodium-ion battery pioneer Natron Energy was busy preparing its specially formulated sodium batteries for mass production. The company slipped a little past its 2023 kickoff plans, but it didn't fall too far behind as far as mass battery production goes. It officially commenced…

The 210-foot-long bridge across a busy freeway in Los Angeles County is expected to be finished in 2025

In a historic shift, the U.S. moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, AP sources say.

Nine-year-old Branson Baker ran more than a mile for help after parents wounded when twister flung family’s vehicle into trees

Wind turbines can pose a deadly risk to migrating birds, but there are ways to dramatically reduce crashes.

Today's good news story comes from the the Isle of Man. A Newfoundland dog has emerged as a hero after playing a crucial role in the rescue of a struggling Golden Retriever from the waters of Douglas inner Harbor.

Using enzymes produced by a bacteria that almost everyone has in their gut, researchers have removed the antigens from red blood cells that determine blood type, putting us within reach of producing universal donor blood.

Called Kwee-sa-hay-is, or Brave Little Hunter, by local First Nation, swam past sandbar overnight at high tide – but she has yet to join pod

Federal prosecutors are examining the consulting company’s role in helping “turbocharge” the sale of painkillers like OxyContin.

John Edwards is on a mission to make signs in Shropshire sparkling clean.

The endangered Australasian bittern likes to keep a low profile and experts think there may be fewer than 1,000 left in Australia, but it's now been spotted with chicks in unique wetlands still recovering from damming in the 1960s.

Regulators prohibit new noncompetes, which impede millions of U.S. workers from getting a better job.

A decade ago, research showed a troubling dip in empathy. A new study provides more hope.

For years, the number of homeless people has been rising in Europe. But not in Finland. The country's Housing First program aims to eliminate the problem by 2027. But how?

Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives

The 29-year-old chess master plays for 58 consecutive hours and counting on New York's Times Square.

The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope.

It's a contrast to his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who encouraged development of the Amazon — legal and illegal — and didn't add areas designated as Indigenous lands.

Battery storage becomes biggest supplier to California’s grid in evening peak for first time.

Nigeria's army says soldiers rescued a pregnant woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl in the village of Chibok.

While 12P/Pons-Brooks may not be as famous as Halley’s, its appearance close to Jupiter is causing great excitement for stargazers

A manager at a Taco Bell outside Philadelphia saved a woman's baby who stopped breathing in the drive-thru.

A cat was clinging onto the handle of a car door, trying to escape high waters, when it was spotted and rescued by police officers passing by in a canoe.

The first minister says anyone affected by misogyny will be covered, whatever their biological sex.

Canada will start applying a proposed tax on the world’s biggest technology companies this year, despite threats from American lawmakers to carry out trade reprisals against a levy that will primarily hit U.S. firms.

The cement industry is one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and is responsible for some 8% of global emissions each year.

The regulation specifically targets ethylene oxide, which a ProPublica analysis found was the single biggest contributor to excess industrial cancer risk from air pollutants nationwide.

The prime minister has told "Bollard Man" Damien Guerot he can stay in the country as long as he likes.

Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.

Agreement will take effect from this time next year.

The Cleveland Monsters helped the mother and son reunite with the man for an emotional puck drop.

Billionaire Mark Cuban says he's happy to pay the $275.9 million he owes in taxes for 2023.

About two billion birds fly through Texas in the spring – and lit-up buildings pose a deadly risk. A growing campaign seeks to save birds with darkness.