A group of penguins became a tour group for the day when they visited an art museum. The penguins were from the Kansas City Zoo in the USA. 一群企鹅组成旅游团参观一家艺术博物馆。这些企鹅来自美国堪萨斯城动物园。 The...
New research sheds light on how carnivorous plants like the Venus fly trap developed a taste for meat. 新研究揭示了,像捕蝇草这样的肉食植物如何产生了食肉的嗜好。 A study from the University of Wurzburg in Germany suggests...
The boss of Twitter has told many of his employees that they can work from home forever if they want to. 推特老板告诉他的众多员工,如果愿意,他们可以永久居家办公。 CEO Jack Dorsey told many workers on Tuesday that they wi...
Saudi Arabia is going to triple the rate of the value added tax (VAT) it imposes on goods and services. VAT will increase from 5 per cent to 15 per cent on the 1st of July. The tax was introduced in Saudi Arabia for the first time in 2018. Government...
Police from around the world have worked together to find lots of missing art. The detectives were from Interpol, Europol and many national police forces. 世界各地警察合作寻找大量失踪的艺术品。这些警察来自国际刑事警察组织...
Most of us learn at school that warm air rises and cool air sinks. This has always appeared to be a fundamental principle of science. However, a study from the University of California, Davis found that there are circumstances in which cool air rises...
There are some scary insects in this world. Few of them are as scary and as venomous as the Asian giant hornet. These fearsome creatures are common in Japan and Korea but are now moving across the Pacific Ocean to the USA and Canada. The hornets kill...
An aquarium in Japan is asking people to help a group of eels that are getting lonely. The Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo has several tanks of garden eels. The creatures are usually very cautious and go into their holes in the sand when someone passes. How...
A team of paleontologists has uncovered what they believe was the most dangerous place in the history of the Earth. It is not a crime-ridden, inner-city ghetto or a hellish war zone. It was an area of the Sahara Desert in Morocco that 100 million yea...
Google has improved its video conferencing platform Meet to be able to compete with other platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. A new feature of Meet is that users can now see the faces of 16 people on their screen. Previously, users could only...