Two American agencies have released data showing that 2021 was the world's sixth warmest year on record. 两家美国机构发布的数据显示，2021年是世界上有记录以来第六热的年份。 The data was collected by the U.S. space agency...
A new study suggests that severe storms are likely to start affecting wider areas that include cities like New York, Boston, Beijing and Tokyo. 一项新的研究表明，严重的风暴可能会开始影响更广泛的地区，包括纽约、波士顿...
Life in a city can be especially hard for a tree. Buildings, pollution, poor soil, insects, and even car crashes can add to tree loss. Now, the warming climate is making a tree's life even harder. Between 2016 and 2021, a report from the city of Seat...
Scientists have discovered one of the largest turtles on record. The turtle, about the size of a small car, lived in Europe 83 million years ago. Researchers recently described remains discovered in northeastern Spain. The remains belonged to a turtl...
With Twitter in Disorder, How to Protect Your Account Twitter is in disorder. Elon Musk, its new owner, cut half of its workforce. Last week, hundreds more employees decided to leave the social media company. There are signs that their departure is a...
NASA's Webb Space Telescope is finding bright, early galaxies that, until recently, could not be seen. One of these galaxies may have formed only 350 million years after the Big Bang the event that explains the beginning of the universe. Researchers...
What Did UN Climate Negotiators Agree to in Egypt? Countries closed the United Nations' COP27 climate meeting on Sunday with a deal to establish a fund to help poor countries suffering weather disasters. The agreement said that poor countries, with l...
The American space agency NASA recently launched its powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft on a test mission to fly around the moon. The launch marked the first flight for SLS, which NASA describes as the most powerful rocket...
American and European companies are racing to develop new batteries for electric vehicles using two readily available and less costly materials: sodium and sulfur. The new batteries could help bring more electric vehicles, or EVs, to the market and r...
Scientists in New Zealand are looking for a way to stop cows from burping. A burp is when an animal releases gas from its digestive system through its throat. To some, a cow burp might seem like a small thing. But in New Zealand, cows outnumber peopl...
Letoyie Leroshi walked for five days in search of water. The rivers in Samburu County, Kenya, were dry after three years of little rain. Then, Leroshi, a cow herder, found a small wet area of sand on a dry river bottom. He brought a group of fellow h...
NASA Launches New Artemis Rocket to the Moon NASA's new moon rocket flew into space for the first time early Wednesday morning. The Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket is the most powerful ever built. The 98-meter-tall rocket lifted off with 4 millio...
Study: Vehicle Warning and Braking Systems Cut Crashes by 50 percent A new study has found that tools designed to warn drivers and automatically stop vehicles in emergency situations helped reduce crashes by about 50 percent. The study is one of the...
Scientists in Israel Make Gene Bank for Wild Crops Could the key to securing the world's food supply for the future be hidden in the DNA of wild crops? Scientists in Israel are creating a gene bank from the seeds of local wild crops. Some of these cr...
Scientists Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth Scientists say they have discovered the closest black hole to Earth. Black holes are areas in space where gravity is so strong that nothing not even light can escape them. They are believed to be formed...
