Astronomers Studying Effects of Brightest Light Burst Ever Seen Astronomers have observed the brightest burst of light ever seen, from an event that happened 2.4 billion light-years from Earth. A light year is about 9.4 trillion kilometers. The scien...
Study: Animal Numbers Have Decreased by 69 Percent since 1970 The world's animal populations have decreased by more than two-thirds since 1970, recent research has said. The report comes from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), an environmental group base...
Solar-powered US Town Suffers Little Damage from Hurricane Ian Babcock Ranch in southwest Florida is the first solar-powered town in the U.S. Its power comes from nearly 700,000 solar panels that supply electricity to more than 2,000 homes and other...
Ozone Hole Reaches Largest Size Since 2015, But Shrinking Continues The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica last week reached its largest size since 2015. It is the third straight year the hole has reached more than 24.8 million square kilometers...
To Study Disease, Scientists Put Human Brain Cells into Rats Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections. The research is part of an effort to study human brain development...
Study: Many Drivers Treat Driving Assist Tools as Fully Self-Driving A new study has found that many drivers using driver assistance tools often treat their vehicles like they are fully self-driving. The study warns that drivers who put too much trus...
Scientists Use Model to Predict Conditions for Life on Ancient Mars 科学家使用模型预测古代火星上生命的生存条件 A new study suggests that ancient Mars might have been able to support a large population of microscopic organisms. 一项...
Scientists Find Two Wild Stars in Extremely Fast Orbit Unlike the sun, about half of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy orbit another star in what is known as a binary system. The word binary means two. Researchers recently described an unusual binary...
Meta Introduces New Virtual Reality Headset Meta Platforms recently introduced a device that lets users combine the computer created world with the real one. Meta showed off its Quest Pro virtual and mixed reality headset at the company's yearly Conn...
NASA Says Asteroids Path Successfully Changed in Recent Test The American space agency NASA says a recent experiment that crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid successfully changed the path of the orbiting object. NASA announced the results on Tuesda...
Elon Musk Suggests Plan to Create an Everything App Billionaire businessman Elon Musk recently confirmed he is still interested in buying the social media service Twitter. The move came after Musk withdrew an earlier offer to buy Twitter for $44 bill...
US Company Tests System to Spin Launch Satellites to Space An American company has carried out tests of a system that uses a high-speed spinning machine to launch satellites into space. The machine which is powered by kinetic energy is meant to great...
Argentina Looks to Cross Wheat with Gene from Sunflowers Argentina is one of the world's top wheat producers, worth about $4.5 billion yearly to the country's economy. But climate conditions like long periods of severe dryness and rising temperatures...
Plastic-eating Enzyme from Worm May Help Ease Pollution Researchers have found that a chemical from a kind of worm can break down one of the most common forms of plastic. 研究人员发现，来自一种蠕虫的化学物质可以分解一种最常见...
Robots Are Making French Fries Faster Fried foods like French fries and onion rings are going high-tech thanks to a company in Southern California. Miso Robotics Inc. has released its Flippy 2 robot. The robot automates the process of deep-frying foo...
