2020-02-03 Virtual Reality Helps Autistic Children ‘Travel’ to New Places
A school in England for children with autism is finding a new use for virtual reality, or VR headsets. Prior’s…
2020-02-02 Top Nonprofits Protest Sale of ‘Dot-Org’ Registry
Major nonprofit organizations are protesting the planned sale of the dot-org internet registry system they belong to. The groups say…
2020-01-31 First Cookies Baked in Space Took Much Longer than on Earth
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently tested an oven they used to bake five chocolate chip cookies. We…
2020-01-30 Can Vietnam Successfully Launch Homegrown 5G Services?
A Vietnamese company says it has been developing its own equipment to launch 5G mobile services nationwide. But some experts…
2020-01-29 Report: Pollution Remains Largest Environmental Threat to Human Health
A new international report says pollution remains the largest environment threat to human health. The report, by the Global Alliance…
2020-01-27 Scientists Discover How Stress Can Cause Gray Hair
A new study provides scientific evidence to support the idea that stress can cause a person’s hair to turn gray.…
2020-01-23 Teen Discovers Planet on Day Three of Internship
Call it luck, but not “dumb luck.” Just three days into Wolf Cukier’s summer internship with the American space agency…
2020-01-21 China Declares Large Paddlefish Species Extinct
The Chinese paddlefish – one of the world’s largest freshwater fish – has been declared extinct. Scientists say the paddlefish,…
2020-01-20 FBI: Stealing of Ideas for New Technology Increases
In 2008, United States government officials approved a patent for an electronic device that looks a lot like today’s Apple…
2020-01-20 Oldest Material Discovered on Earth: 7 Billion Year Old Stardust
Scientists say they have identified the oldest solid material on Earth – stardust believed to have formed about 7 billion…
2020-01-16 Scientists: 2019 Ocean Water Temperatures Were Hottest Ever
Scientists reported this week that the world’s oceans were warmer in 2019 than they had ever been before. The report…
2020-01-16 Study: New Machine Keeps Livers Alive for Full Week Outside the Body
Swiss researchers have developed a machine that, they say, can keep human livers alive outside of the body for one…
2020-01-13 NASA Observer Discovers Earth-sized World in ‘Habitable Zone’
A NASA satellite has discovered an Earth-sized world within its star’s “habitable” area — where liquid water could possibly exist.…
2020-01-10 Toyota to Build ‘City of the Future’ to Test New Technologies
Japanese automaker Toyota has announced plans to create a model “city of the future” to test and develop new technologies.…
2020-01-09 Sea Creature Sees Without Eyes
A relative of starfish does not have eyes, but can still see. That information comes from scientists who studied sea…