The Leeds University study looked at 86 countries and came to broadly the same conclusions about the...

After a slow wet season without much precipitation, the Sierra Nevada mountain range region in California is finally starting to see some heavy snow.AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said parts of the central and northern Sierra Nevada were buried under somewhere between 1-4 feet of snow since it started falling on Sunday. The Sierra Nevada Mountains are usually pummeled with...

Nine nurses across the country said they were understaffed before coronavirus hit. Now they are facing equipment shortages and a lack of...

The project from a Google sister company went live Sunday. It serves only two counties out of 3,141 counties and county-equivalents across...

A consortium of tech leaders — including Seattle's Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's charity — today unveiled an AI-enabled database that's meant to give researchers quicker, surer access to resources relating to coronavirus and how to stop it. The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, or CORD-19, was created in response to a...

A third spike in influenza-like illness (ILI) activity in the United States now puts the 2019-20 flu season on track to be perhaps the worst in at least the last 20 years of record-keeping by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The influence of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), which is leading to more people reporting flu-like symptoms, is adding to the difficult...

Following a batch of nuisance rain and wet snow prior to midweek, two significant rounds of rain are forecast to soak areas from the Mississippi Valley to the Northeast spanning Wednesday to Friday and could raise water levels on some area streams and rivers. The volume of people driving or taking mass transit to work has dropped significantly due to the increased volume of telecommuters...

Two of the biggest luxury conglomerates in the world have collectively pledged over $3.5 million towards global coronavirus...

After meandering near the northeastern corner of Madagascar as a tropical storm, a tropical cyclone developed on Sunday and was given the name Herold.On Saturday, Herold produced 206 mm of rain in Sambava and 104 mm of rain in Antalaha, both located along the northeastern coast of Madagascar.As of late Monday local time, Tropical Cyclone Herold is equivalent in strength to a Category 2 hurricane...

The number of seriously ill coronavirus patients under 60 in France is out of kilter with the theory that younger people are less at...

Stereotypes and myths about race are not just used by racists. Here's how to debunk five...

British people have been told to work at home and limit all forms of social contact as coronavirus surges across the...

Handwashing, social distancing, and travel restrictions, while important, aren't enough to fight the pandemic, according to...

A stormy pattern will continue to increase the risk of localized flash flooding across parts of the Middle East into at least the second half of the week.Rain and high elevation snow arrived in Turkey late this weekend and will continue into Tuesday as the next storm moves into the area.By Tuesday night and Wednesday, the storm will start to swing into the Middle East. Showers are expected to...

While research has moved at historic speed to reach this point, it will take at least a year of clinical testing to determine if the vaccine...

People online pointed out the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's subtle dig at the US, and the college later edited its...

"When you look at the projections, there's every chance that we could be Italy," Adams said. More than 1,800 have died in Italy from...

From Greta Thunberg to oil firms, people are pushing for more trees to be planted - but...

Online threads and emails have claimed that holding your breath for 10 seconds can help your diagnose coronavirus, but experts say that's not...

In China, COVID-19 infections have ground to a near halt. Coronavirus-fighting measures included fever clinics, free tests, and food...

A surge of very warm air is poised to make a run along the Eastern Seaboard and Appalachians just in time for the official start of spring -- and some areas may challenge records that have been standing for several decades. The warmth will expand eastward from Wednesday to Friday, and 2020's vernal equinox will occur on Thursday, March 19, at 11:50 a.m. EST, the earliest in the United...

Of all the senses, scent is a particularly difficult one to teach AI, but that doesn't stop researchers from trying. Most recently, researchers from Intel and Cornell University trained a neuromorphic chip to learn and recognize the scents of 10 hazardous chemicals. In the future, the tech might enable "electronic noses" and robots to detect weapons, explosives, narcotics and even...

Reduced demand for travel has caused airlines to temporarily shutter operations as COVID-19 continues to spread and nations close...

All nonessential travel into the EU will be banned for at least 30 days, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen...