2020-07-17 US TikTok Users Prepare for Life without the App
American users of the popular video sharing service TikTok are preparing for a possible ban of the app by the…
2020-07-16 Comet ‘Neowise’ Provides Light Shows while Passing by Earth
Comets are solar system objects made up of ice, rock and dust. Right now, a newly-discovered one is speeding by…
2020-07-15 Three Countries Send Spacecraft to Mars
China, the United Arab Emirates and the United States plan to launch unpiloted spaceships in the next few weeks to…
2020-07-15 UN Predicts More Rising Temperatures Over Next Five Years
The United Nations predicts worldwide temperatures over the next five years may at times rise to more than 1.5 degrees…
2020-07-13 Study Suggests Dinosaurs May have Started as Very Small Creatures
A new study adds to growing evidence that dinosaurs may have developed from very small animals. Scientists have studied the…
2020-07-13 Study: New Kind of Seaweed Is Killing Coral in the Pacific Ocean
Scientists say a recently discovered kind of seaweed plant is killing large numbers of very small but important ocean animals…
2020-07-12 Huge Machines Search for Smallest Pieces of Universe
The unusual substance known as antimatter may have appeared in many films about space and the future. But it is…
2020-07-11 First Images Taken of Rare Gorilla with Babies
A conservation group has captured the first images of rare Cross River gorillas with their babies. Scientists once feared that…
2020-07-10 Facebook Investigation Finds ‘Serious Setbacks’ for Civil Rights
An audit on Facebook’s civil rights record has found “serious setbacks” in its efforts to deal with issues such as…
2020-07-07 Scientists Discover 7,000-year-old Tools Off Australia’s West Coast
Scientists say they have found Australia’s first underwater archeological areas off the country’s west coast. The sites are believed to…
2020-07-06 Scientists Say a Massive Star Has Mysteriously Disappeared
Astronomers say a massive star appears to have mysteriously disappeared from a distant galaxy. The star is part of the…
2020-07-04 Ocean on Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Have Supported Life
New research from the United States space agency, NASA, suggests that the ocean under the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa…
2020-07-03 Scientists: Large Wombat-like Animal Lived in Australia 25 Million Years Ago
Scientists say a relative of modern wombats, about the size of a black bear, lived in central Australia around 25…
2020-07-06 Koalas Could Disappear from Australian State by 2050
Australian animals called koalas could disappear from New South Wales state by 2050, unless the state government immediately acts to…
2020-07-03 US Scientists: Honeybees Show Improvement After Bad Year
A new study shows the American honeybee population is slowly recovering after suffering major losses the year before. Beekeepers in…