New analysis of street-level data across sub-Saharan Africa shows how access to infrastructure dramatically improves the ...

Covering roughly 1.05 million square miles, Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world. Its expansive steppes ...

In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

Primary shipping services, including the European branch of DHL, multiple European state postal services, Australia Post, Japan Post and Taiwan's state postal service, have stopped shipping consumer ...

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's ...

Trump wants death penalty for all murder cases in D.C., a rare flesh-eating screwworm infects U.S. resident, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x Shippers around the world have begun pausing some ...

The day I arrived in Finland to learn how to be happy, I thought about the ladder. Humans have many ways to assess their own happiness, but the Cantril Ladder may be the most influential, even if ...

For three years of war, the country has banned young men from leaving the country once they turn 18, prompting an exodus of teenage boys. Now it is raising that age limit to 23. By Maria Varenikova ...

Multiple wildfires are burning across California, fueled by high temperatures, dry winds, and low humidity. Cooler weather and coastal fog are aiding firefighting efforts in some areas, but conditions ...

Before there can be realignment in MLB, there needs to be expansion. Expansion to where? That's the question the next few years will answer. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has stated that there could be ...

President Trump has said he would impose roughly 100% tariffs on all chips coming into the U.S. but exempt tech companies that have promised to manufacture domestically. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty ...

Postal services in more than 20 countries have announced the temporary suspension of most parcel shipments to the U.S., citing uncertainty over the effects of a Trump administration policy change. The ...