NASA Looks to Build Huge Telescopes with Fluid Materials The American space agency NASA is experimenting with ways to build huge telescopes with fluid materials. Such devices could permit astronomers to examine older and more distant space objects. B...
Researchers say new observations of Neptune suggest the planet is getting colder. An international team of astronomers used ground-based telescopes in Hawaii and Chile to estimate Neptune's atmospheric temperatures. The team examined nearly 100 infra...
American Businessman Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter American businessman Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter and take the company private. 美国商人埃隆马斯克提出收购推特并将其私有化。 The plans were made public Thursday in a f...
Demand for Electric Car Batteries Drives Nations to Seek Own Materials World demand for batteries to power electric vehicles (EVs) is expected to increase sharply in the coming years. To prepare for this demand, some nations are seeking to increase t...
Dolphins Social Habits Spread Virus Dolphins are social and intelligent animals. And, like the way humans maintain relationships by hugging or giving a handshake, dolphins breathe together at the same time when they come up from the water for air. Th...
Twitter to Begin Testing Editing Tool for Tweets Twitter says it will begin testing a new editing tool for tweets in the coming months. The tool would permit users to remove or add information to published tweets. Some well-known Twitter users - incl...
Little Progress in Effort to Save Vaquita The vaquita is one of the smallest members of the dolphin and whale family. Today, the animal is in danger of disappearing. The World Wildlife Fund estimates that about 10 vaquitas are left in the world. Last...
Researchers in Japan have developed a robot capable of peeling a banana without crushing the fruit inside. 日本研究人员开发了一种机器人，它能够剥开香蕉皮，而不弄坏里面的香蕉肉。 While the two-armed machine is only s...
Robotic Boat to Help Measure Sea Effects of Tonga Volcano A scientific team is headed to Tonga to measure the effects of January's undersea volcano explosion on the surrounding ocean. 一个科学小组将前往汤加，测量1月份海底火山爆发对...
California Permitting Its Rivers More Space to Flow Between huge almond farms and dairy fields in the heart of California's farm country sits a property under redesign. Engineers are seeking to return the land there to what is was like 150 years ago,...
