Brazil aims to become a major producer of rare earth metals as Western countries push to gain supplies needed to manufacture high technology devices. Rare earth metals are 17 elements that are important to electronic equipment and to batteries, elect...
The American space agency NASA says a huge star explosion is expected to light up the night sky later this year. NASA describes it as a once-in-a-lifetime event. The event is known as a nova. It happens when changes to a star cause it to release a la...
Millions of years ago, a huge and powerful hunter flew in the skies above a former sea in what is now Australia. Its large mouth and long, pointed teeth captured fish and other sea life. Scientists in Australia recently announced the discovery of fos...
Apple is preparing to release a series of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools on iPhones and other personal devices. Company officials have described the new offerings as a newly developed technology called Apple Intelligence. The announcement hap...
Childhood cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux and three other American civilians went to space in 2021. They travelled in a mission called Inspiration4 for the private company SpaceX. The four-member crew made history as the first all-civilian team to o...
Stars about the size of our sun are not the most common ones in the Milky Way Galaxy. Much smaller stars are far more common. Of all the stars in our galaxy, these small stars host the most planets. Scientists are studying the planets of these small...
Engineers at the Chinese company Ex-Robots are developing human-like robots at a factory in China's northeastern coastal city of Dalian. Their goal is to increase the ability of the company's robots to show facial expressions and emotions. Robot body...
African elephants call each other by and answer to individual names, a new study finds. Such communication is rare in the animal world. African elephants are among the largest animals that live on land. The names are one part of the low sounds, or ru...
A team of international researchers says that climate change made recent flooding in southern Brazil twice as likely to happen. It also said that the El Ni?o Pacific Ocean current made the rains in Brazil more severe. Last month, flooding killed more...
The horse changed human history. And now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to change the horse. Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia. That is when humans started to spread do...
A research group says artificial intelligence companies (AI) could run out of publicly available data for their systems in less than eight years. Training data includes writing and information publicly available on the Internet. AI companies use the...
The 2024 Olympic Games open in Paris late next month and experts say especially hot summer weather is likely to return. Temperatures set record highs in Europe last summer and France's national weather agency says it expects warmer than normal condit...
The largest digital camera ever built for space scientists is ready to be put in place under the clear skies of northern Chile. The camera can produce images above 3.2 gigapixels in size and weighs nearly three tons. A pixel is the smallest area of d...
South Korea has created a new national space agency to increase its capabilities and is aiming for a future Mars landing. President Yoon Suk Yeol recently announced the establishment of the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA). He said the country p...
Agriculture companies are using new methods to change the genes of plants to produce more productive crops. The process of gene-editing is gaining attention from people interested in agriculture. It makes changes to the existing genes of a plant, suc...
