Russia's approval of a vaccine against the new coronavirus after less than two months of human testing has caused interest and concern around the world. Russian officials said on Wednesday that the first supplies of the vaccine would be ready for som...
Kindness May Keep You Healthy If you are driving in the United States, you may see a common bumper sticker on passing vehicles that reads: Perform random acts of kindness. The saying is meant to urge people to do kind things for others without thinki...
When two strangers walking by accused James Jaime Juanillo of damaging private property, the California man quickly began recording the incident. A short time later, he put the video on social media. Since then the video has gone viral, with people w...
Canadian researchers say they have discovered the first known case of a dinosaur suffering from a deadly cancer. The evidence came from a fossil leg bone discovered in Alberta, Canada in 1989. The fossil was from a dinosaur called Centrosaurus. It wa...
Singapore researchers say they have developed a form of electronic skin that can recreate a sense of touch. 新加坡研究人员表示，他们开发出了一种可以再造触觉的电子皮肤。 The developers hope their invention will give peopl...
On a farm at the edge of Everglades National Park in Florida, Timea Hunter trains people to ride horses. There, she has held plenty of horse-riding classes, parties, and other events. So, with her children's school building closed, she asked herself:...
For hundreds of years, Egyptian rulers, religious leaders, educators, and commoners have been buried in two large cemeteries in Cairo. These cemeteries together make an historic city of the dead. Now the government is building highways through the bu...
For most of his life, Ross Sharp has lived in Borden County in north Texas. Sharp said there are no strangers here. I like the people. It's home, said Sharp. He started a family here and never left. Fewer than 700 people live in Borden County. About...
A new study shows that heatwaves can cause fish and other creatures in the world's oceans to travel thousands of kilometers in search of cooler waters. Scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, reported on the s...
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Tuesday that Russia has become the first country to approve a vaccine for COVID-19. But some scientists question whether its quick approval without testing a large group of people will lead to a safe vacci...
The COVID-19 crisis caused public schools in the United States to shut their doors in March. But that did not mean the school year ended early. Instead, educators quickly developed, trained for and established emergency distance-teaching operations,...
The American Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden has named California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. 美国民主党总统候选人乔拜恩任命加州参议员卡玛拉哈里斯为其竞选伙伴。 Biden's choice signals...
Virus Lockdown for Worlds Rarest Wild Pigs Pygmy hogs the world's smallest and rarest wild pig are under a virus lockdown, but it has nothing to do with the coronavirus. Officials in India are restricting the movement of pygmy hogs because of the cou...
The last fully complete ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed. The Milne Ice Shelf is at the edge of Ellesmere Island, in the far northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. The ice shelf, researchers say, lost more than more than 40 percent of...
Hurricane Alpha? Experts Expect Additional Storms, May Run Out of Names This year's Atlantic hurricane season has already broken records. But weather experts say it is about to get even worse. In the coming months, the scientists expect to see about...
