Facebook parent company Meta recently announced changes to the way it tries to identify misinformation and harmful material published on its social media services. Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg explained in a video that the company had decided to make t...
Businessman Elon Musk said a third person has had a special electronic device directly connected to their brain. The unidentified person received an implant from Musk's company Neuralink, which makes devices that link the human brain to computers. Ne...
Two private spacecraft are on their way to the moon to carry out separate missions. The landers launched January 15 from the American government's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The private company SpaceX used its Falcon 9 launch vehicle to fly the...
For more than 5,000 years, humans have covered themselves with permanent artistic designs known as tattoos. In a recent study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly complex designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru. The skin of the mummies...
A spacecraft recently sent back some of the best close-up pictures yet of the planet Mercury's north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer went as close as 295 kilometers above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the planet's...
At this year's CES show in Las Vegas, Nevada, crowds from around the world came to see the latest products built with artificial intelligence (AI). CES is produced by the Virginia-based Consumer Technology Association. It presents the latest electron...
NASA says a spacecraft that has been examining the sun's outermost atmosphere recently got closer to our Earth's star than any past explorer has. The American space agency announced its Parker Solar Probe passed within 6.1 million kilometers of the s...
As the date nears for a possible U.S. ban on the video sharing service TikTok, some small companies are saying such a ban would hurt their business. The U.S. Justice Department has ordered TikTok's China-based parent, ByteDance, to sell the social me...
The world will have to wait until 2026 for the next total solar eclipse. However, the sky promises plenty of other big events in 2025. The new year starts off with a six-planet parade in January that people will be able to see for weeks. The smallest...
Researchers in Russia's Siberia area are showing the public what they say are the 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth. Melting permafrost led to the animal's discovery. They are calling it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found. Named Yana...
As we enter the new year, we take a look back at some of the biggest space stories of 2024. Historic private moon landing Nearly one year ago, a private spacecraft completed the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years. The American space agency...
As we enter the new year, we take a look back at some of the biggest space stories of 2024. Historic private moon landing Nearly one year ago, a private spacecraft completed the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years. The American space agency...
Scientists have used ancient genes to learn more details about contact between Neanderthals and humans tens of thousands of years ago. Results of two recent studies estimate the two groups likely met and began mating about 45,000 years ago. Modern hu...
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools that permit people to produce online reviews have put sellers, service providers and buyers in unfamiliar territory, public protection groups and researchers say. False, or fake, reviews have long appeared on many p...
A sloth is a furry animal that lives mainly in South and Central America. It moves very slowly and spends most of its time in trees. But thousands of years ago their ancestors were huge. Giant sloths could weigh up to 3.6 metric tons and lived on the...
