1+ hour, 46+ min ago   (389+ words) China’s Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot ran 100 metres in 8.86 seconds in a semifinal at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Tuesday, improving on the 9.39-second time it set in an opening day heat. The robot, developed by the Beijing…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (500+ words) It is not quite the “RoboCop” of the 1987 movie: no gun, no power to arrest and wheels rather than the Hollywood cyborg’s mechanical stride. But at a busy intersection in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, the 1.88-m (6-foot-2-inch)…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (121+ words) Nairobi maps 227 flood hotspots ahead of El Niño rains NTV Kenya Nairobi County has mapped 227 flood hotspots as the city steps up preparations for the El Niño rains expected from October to December. The county has classified 16 of the 227 hotspots…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (451+ words) Hafsa Ibrahim and Asha Harun: Duo Behind the Innovative AI-based Drought Prediction System NTV Kenya Hafsa Ibrahim and Asha Harun: Duo Behind the Innovative AI-based Drought Prediction System Hafsa Ibrahim and Asha Harun are innovators behind an AI-based drought prediction…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (716+ words) The government has classified 18 counties as being at high risk of flooding during the October–November–December (OND) short rains season. The National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC), the government’s agency that coordinates national emergency response, disaster risk reduction, and 24/7 crisis…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (168+ words) The Indian house crow, widely regarded as one of the world’s most destructive invasive bird species, has long posed a threat along Kenya’s coast. Now, conservationists say the species has been spotted in Nairobi, raising fears that the capital could…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (172+ words) Thousands of students from Kenya’s coastal region turned out on Sunday in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Records record by planting 5,000 mangrove seedlings simultaneously in under 30 seconds. The students from various schools gathered at the Kwa Fara…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1414+ words) Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can travel for kilometres. Now, scientists say they are beginning to follow those exchanges in real time using an…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1290+ words) A species of small fish has been observed by the thousands climbing a vertical waterfall 15 metres (50 feet) tall in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a behaviour that illustrates the surprising and ingenious ways animals can adapt to extreme environments....