Month: August 2021

A growing number of social media companies are currently developing ways for their users to communicate through voice. The latest company to announce such a service was Twitter, which launched…

Small dinosaurs once lived in the desert in today’s Mongolia and northern China. Their great night vision and strong hearing made them deadly predators during the nighttime. Scientists said Thursday…

It is a place of sadness: a child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried under the overhang of a cave, the upper part of the body once carefully wrapped…

American space agency NASA says it has expanded its Mars helicopter mission after the experimental aircraft successfully completed several test flights. The helicopter, named Ingenuity, made history last month by…

White abalone are at risk of dying out. But scientists in California have developed a special way to help the sea snail population reproduce. Kristin Aquilino is lead scientist for…

The world’s glaciers are melting quickly. Scientists from the magazine Nature looked at 20 years of satellite data of the world’s 220,000 mountain glaciers. They found that since 2015, glaciers…

Southern California’s Catalina Island is a popular destination for nature lovers. It is reachable by boat from Los Angeles and San Diego. With just one city, most of the small…

A new study suggests icy clouds above early Mars could have provided the warmth to permit flowing water on the Red Planet. American researchers used a computer model to predict…

A genetic study of Sumatran rhinoceroses is providing what scientists call “good news” for the critically endangered animal. Experts say fewer than 100 of them remain in existence. Researchers report…

Several American banks have started using surveillance software and computer vision to watch people using their services. Computer vision is a part of artificial intelligence that uses computers to understand…

A Chinese space mining company has designed a robot that can capture waste material left behind by spacecraft in outer space with a big net. The state-run Xinhua news agency…

China says it has successfully launched the first part of a planned new space station it aims to complete by the end of 2022. State media reported the module was…

A growing number of U.S. companies are now offering homes built with three-dimensional, or 3D printing technology. The companies say 3D printers can build homes faster, for a lot less…

The U.S. Department of Defense has given a private company control over a massive part of its unused internet space. The Florida-based company, identified in news reports as Global Resource…

The U.S. military has chosen three companies to develop nuclear thermal propulsion, or NTP systems to be tested in space by 2025. The goal is to test the space travel…