An environmental group is leading a call for Congress to place a moratorium on the construction of new data centers used to power artificial intelligence.

There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that's only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we're finding new species like never before.

Tennessee Republican Matt Van Epps this week won a special U.S. House election for a conservative district that includes part of Nashville.

The initiatives are part of a larger, federally-funded effort to rebuild housing after Hurricane Helene in fall 2024.

Anyone who dismisses ants as just another pesky insect is missing some of nature's most jaw-dropping displays.

Virginia's climate law requires 100% renewable energy by 2050. The commonwealth is also known as the data center capital of the world. Can those ambitions coexist?

Dr. Julie Horvath is the head of the Genomics & Microbiology Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and also an Associate Research Professor at North Carolina Central University. She’s studying personal hygiene and its effects on the microbes on our skin – by taking samples from people's arm pits and from the underarms of other primates.

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other scientific instruments.

ARPA program money allocated to NC agencies set to return to the feds if the COVID funds aren’t spent before the end of 2026.

The economic distress tier system that NC agencies use to rank counties saw downward movement in places recovering from Helene.