What Is Rewilding? Animal and plant species are disappearing at frightening levels. The problem has led to efforts to rewild places where such life existed before human development, pollution and climate change forced it out. The American city of Det...
NASA Pleased with Orion Test Flight as Spacecraft Heads Back to Earth The American space agency NASA says its Orion spacecraft has performed beyond expectations during its test mission to fly around the moon. Orion is set to return to Earth on Decemb...
Small Nevada Toad Listed as Endangered Due to Power Project A power center that will create electricity by pumping hot water from the earth sounds like a good idea. The company that hopes to build the power center in a part of western Nevada says it...
Goose-necked Dinosaur Was Built Like a Diving Bird The expansive dinosaur group that includes big hunters like the T. rex has a strange new member. Its bones were found in Mongolia. Scientists named the new dinosaur Natovenator polydontus. They say i...
Scientists Study Oldest-known DNA Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to study what life was like 2 million years ago in Greenland. Today, northern Greenland is an empty, cold area. But in the past, it was full of trees, plants, an...
Scientists: Ancient Creature Grew Quicker Than Expected Long before the time of the dinosaurs, an unusual creature called Whatcheeria was a top predator. New research is providing a deeper understanding of Whatcheeria, which lived around 330 million...
The city of San Francisco has put a policy on hold that would permit police to deploy armed robots to deal with emergency situations. The city's Board of Supervisors voted eight to three last week to approve the measure. On Tuesday, however, the boar...
Millions of Birds Could Bring Visitors to Eastern Mexico Every year, millions of birds fly between Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico in an event known as the river of raptors. Many kinds of birds such as hawks, falcons,...
Scientists Use Quantum Computer for Teleportation Experiment Scientists say they have successfully used a quantum computer to teleport messages between two simulated black holes. Quantum computing uses elements of quantum physics to complete operatio...
Scientists Use Facial Recognition to Study Seals Scientists believe they have found a new use for facial recognition technology: saving large ocean animals known as seals. Researchers at Colgate University in the U.S. state of New York have developed...
Amazon Deforestation Rate Slows Somewhat Last Year The deforestation rate in the Brazilian Amazon dropped slightly last year, new satellite data shows. The data found the rainforest lost an area covering over 11,000 square kilometers in the period fr...
Twitter says it is no longer enforcing a policy that aimed to limit misinformation about COVID-19. The move is the latest major change at Twitter since American businessman Elon Musk took ownership of the social media service in October. A short stat...
An international group of scientists has expanded the metric terms used to express the largest and smallest measurements. The changes were decided at a recent meeting of the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures, which took place near Paris...
Study Finds Earliest Evidence of Cooking A recent study found what could be the earliest known evidence of ancient cooking: the leftovers of a fish dinner from 780,000 years ago. Cooking helped change our ancestors. It helped fuel our evolution and g...
Scientists researching climate change in Antarctica are studying penguins in an effort to better understand the area's environmental health. 在南极洲研究气候变化的科学家们正在研究企鹅，以更好地了解该地区的环境健康状...
