Why Is Elon Musk Bringing Legal Action Against OpenAI? Business leader Elon Musk is bringing a legal case against artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI and its chief Sam Altman. Musk is chief of carmaker Tesla and SpaceX and also leads the soci...
Study: NASA Space Strike Might Have Reshaped an Asteroid A new study suggests that an asteroid strike by an American spacecraft likely changed the shape of the targeted object. NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The...
How Did Human Ancestors Lose Their Tails? Our very ancient animal ancestors had tails. Why don't we have them now? From the time of Charles Darwin, a scientist from the 1800s who studied evolutionary biology, scientists have questioned why and how th...
In Dubai, a Race for Iron Men Wearing Jet Suits The pilots started their jet engines on a runway in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai on Wednesday. But they were not preparing to fly an aircraft. They themselves would fly in the first-ever jet s...
Arctic Vault Gets More Seeds The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is on an island halfway between Europe and the North Pole. It contains frozen seeds of food crops from around the world. The vault opened in 2008 to help keep crops safe from extinction. Thi...
How to Use AI Tools to Improve Quality of Internet Searches Internet search companies have already built artificial intelligence (AI) tools into their systems. And the use of AI systems to support internet searches is expected to grow sharply in comi...
How Do Whales 'Sing?' It is one of Earth's loudest sounds in the ocean: the singing of whales. Now scientists think they have an idea of how baleen whales do it. They say the large air-breathing sea animals use a special voice box that enables them t...
Scientists Identify Possibly Brightest Object in the Universe Astronomers say they may have discovered the brightest object ever observed in the universe. The discovery involves a distant space object known as a quasar. The American space agency NASA...
US Prepares for a Cicada Invasion Last Seen in 1803 Do you remember all those cicada videos from the United States in 2021? Well, prepare for a repeat performance this year. The insect show begins as early as April. Two groups of cicadas, brood XIII...
Hot Seawater Hurts Coral Restoration Effort in Florida Keys Government scientists are aiming to replace coral at seven places off the Florida Keys island group. But The Associated Press reports three fourths of the newly cultivated coral has died bec...
Private Spacecraft Makes First US Moon Landing in More than 50 Years 美国私营航天器登月成功 A private spacecraft has successfully touched down on the moon, marking the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years. 一艘私人航天器成功...
Cuban Biologists Solve Mysteries of Bird Migration Researchers from Cuba are working with a Canadian partner to learn more about migratory birds that travel between North America and Cuba each year. Daniela Ventura is a bird biologist at the Universi...
Science Celebrating 200 Years of Dinosaur Research On February 20, 1824, British scientist and Christian clergyman William Buckland spoke before the Geological Society of London. He described the find of a huge jaw and other bones at a rock mine in t...
Study Finds Majority of Retired People Enjoy VR A new study found that a majority of retired people who experienced virtual reality (VR) said they liked using the technology. The study is part of an effort that aims to find ways older adults, known a...
Musk: Neuralink Patient Able to Control Computer Mouse by Thinking 马斯克称首位脑芯片人类受试者可凭思维操控鼠标 The first human patient who received a brain chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered. The patient is abl...