Bard, ChatGPT Set Up Google, Microsoft Battle Fast developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools are set to start new competitive battles between Google and Microsoft. Google chief Sundar Pichai announced this week his company had developed a new AI-...
Researchers Develop Better Idea of How Egyptians Made Mummies For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians preserved their dead in a process known as mummification. Now, researchers have used chemistry and an unusual collection of containers to figure o...
Recent Asteroid Flyby Suggests Blind Spot in Planetary Defense A small asteroid was discovered recently, just days before it passed close to Earth. The object was never considered a real threat to our planet. But the discovery has raised questions ab...
American Company Aims to Bring Back the Dodo Bird More investors are supporting a biotechnology company working on ways to bring back animals that have died off. Some scientists, however, are doubtful such research efforts are possible or even a good...
Italian Ship Makes Farthest Southern Journey An Italian ship in waters near Antarctica has sailed further south than any ship has done before. The ship was able to make it so far south because of an unusual lack of ice in the Antarctic. The ship, cal...
Humans, Dolphins Working Together to Fish A fishing community in southern Brazil has an unusual ally: wild dolphins. Stories of people and dolphins working together to catch fish go back thousands of years. But historians and storytellers have told t...
Google AI Tool Creates Music from Written Descriptions This week, Google researchers published a paper describing results from an artificial intelligence (AI) tool built to create music. The tool, called MusicLM, is not the first AI music tool to lau...
Green Comet to Pass Earth for First Time in 50,000 Years A green comet will appear again in Earth's sky for the first time in 50,000 years. The American space agency NASA says the comet's last visit came during Neanderthal times. It will come within...
Emirates Completes Test Flight with Environment Friendlier Fuel International airline Emirates says it successfully flew a Boeing 777 on a test flight with one engine running on a mixture of sustainable fuel. The test flight took place Monday and las...
NASA to Work with Military Agency on Nuclear Rocket Test Flight The American space agency NASA is teaming up with a military research agency to develop a nuclear rocket designed to fly astronauts to Mars. NASA recently announced it would partner with...
New York City Uses Technology to Identify Noisy Cars Officials in New York City are using technology to cut down on noise on city streets. Cameras equipped with radar sound collectors identify loud vehicles in an effort to catch drivers violating noi...
Study: Light Pollution Continues to Dim Stars A new study has found that light pollution is making the night sky brighter and the stars dimmer. The study examined data from more than 50,000 citizen star watchers across the world. It found that man-ma...
Study: Earths Inner Core May Be Changing Speed A recent study suggests that the rate at which the Earth's center is turning is slowing down compared to the outer parts of the planet. Earth scientists, or geologists, say that the center or core of the...
New Study Finds Genes Linked to Whales Huge Size 新研究发现鲸鱼体型巨大的基因 Scientists have wondered long on the mystery of how whales got so big. A new study suggests some answers. 科学家们对鲸鱼是如何变得如此巨大的奥...
Microsoft Expands Partnership with OpenAI, Invests Billions More American technology company Microsoft has announced a new, multibillion-dollar investment in artificial intelligence (AI) developer OpenAI. The deal marks the latest deepening of ties b...
