Unique Island Animals at Greater Risk of Extinction Biologists who study evolution have always been interested in animals that developed on islands. In some situations, animals on islands changed over time and came to look very different from the sam...
Coastal communities around the world are using material from coconuts to reduce beach erosion. Long pieces from the outer shell of the coconut, known as coir, are often used with other materials to build barriers. The barriers are used to protect bea...
Google Adds New AI Tools for Developers, Businesses Google has released a series of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to be used with Gmail, Google Docs and other products. Google has made the AI tools available for testing to developer...
The skin of a small fish from Thailand is almost completely clear. But when light shines through it, a shimmering rainbow of colors appear. Now, scientists have found out how this fish called the ghost catfish creates colorful light that is iridescen...
The U.S. Space Command recently released a proposal aimed at reducing the junk orbiting the Earth in space. Space junk might be a piece of metal that broke off from an orbiting satellite. Or it could be a whole satellite that is no longer powered on...
Japanese Company Turns Unused Rice into Plastic Products A Japanese company has found a way to turn unwanted rice into plastic goods. One company is working with farmers in the coastal town of Namie. Nearby is the Fukushima nuclear center, closed sin...
Several new studies confirm the success of a test by the American space agency NASA to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The studies suggest the experiment was an important first step in learning how spacecraft might be able to protect Earth from...
More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl, Ukraine, live among empty buildings in and around the closed nuclear center. The animals continue to find food, mate and survive. Scientists hope that studying the do...
More American businesses are starting to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to come up with new ideas and to deal with customers. Mattel is known for making children's toys. The company recently used an AI image generator called DALL-E to come up...
A new study has found that a dinosaur's size was not necessarily linked to how quickly it grew. The research results come from studying a group of dinosaurs called theropods. Some theropods, like the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex, could grow to about...
European space officials have called for establishing a separate time zone on the moon. The European Space Agency (ESA) said the idea was discussed at a recent meeting held at the agency's Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands. ESA...
Inventor of First Mobile Phone Looks back, Thinks about Future The man who made the first call from a wireless phone is now 94 years old. The year was 1973. Martin Cooper operated a large, heavy new communication device on a street in New York City....
A team of Russian scientists recently examined something extremely unusual: the frozen body of a brown bear that lived thousands of years ago. 一个俄罗斯科学家小组最近检查了一件非常不寻常的东西：一头生活在数千年前的棕...
A new study suggests the singing noises made by humpback whales might be a sign of loneliness. 一项新的研究表明，座头鲸发出的歌声可能是孤独的迹象。 Scientists who recorded humpback whale behavior in Australia discovered that...
The United Nations chief is warning that, since 1900, sea levels around the world have risen at a faster rate than before that time. 联合国秘书长警告称，自1900年以来，全球海平面上升的速度比之前更快。 The increase puts s...
