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Researchers and companies have tried over the years to automate the chore with limited success. Using a brand new method, researchers have taught a robot to fold a record 30-40 garments per hour.

A meteorologist for NBC Washington paused his live weather report Thursday to call his family about a tornado warning near their home.

Stories about mermaids aren't exclusive to Western fairytales. Long before Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" was published in 1837, there were Black mermaids in West African folklore.

The ruling revokes leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. It says the Interior Department failed to consider the greenhouse gases it would produce.

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In just a few years, phasing out gas-powered cars has gone from fringe idea to mainstream policy proposal. It's still a long way from being reality, but the sense of urgency is accelerating.

China is looking to deepen ties with Saudi Arabia and meeting other Arab leaders months after President Biden visited the kingdom — and had rocky results.

A dish of brain cells learned to play the 1970s video game Pong. The research could help computers become more intelligent

The South Korean cultural phenomenon is now a new musical, starring actual K-pop idols.

Factories have added 467,000 jobs in the last 12 months, as production jumped to its highest level since 2008. But manufacturing remains a much smaller slice of the U.S. economy than it used to be.