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Wild horse species returns to the Kazakh steppes
After a few hesitant steps following a long flight from Prague, three Przewalski horses galloped off for the first time into the Kazakh steppe -- the native habitat of this endangered species.The...
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India's heatwave longest ever, worse to come
India's heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government's top weather expert said Monday as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures.Parts of northern India have...
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Apple to break AI silence at developers conference
Apple on Monday will attempt to persuade doubters on its AI strategy after rivals raced ahead in adopting artificial intelligence.AI and perhaps even a partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will...
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Five ways artificial intelligence can improve your dating life
p>Artificial intelligence is going to transform how we date. The question is: will it be for better or worse? It’s already causing some real problems, especially related to “romance scams” and...
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NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists opportunity to study an...
Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn...
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Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA...
Around 8% of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to millions of...
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Elephants call each other by name, study finds
Elephants call out to each other using individual names that they invent for their fellow pachyderms, a study said on Monday.While dolphins and parrots have been observed addressing each other by...
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Apple partners with OpenAI as it unveils 'Apple Intelligence'
Apple on Monday unveiled "Apple Intelligence," its suite of new AI features for its coveted devices -- and a partnership with OpenAI -- as it seeks to catch up to rivals racing ahead on adopting the...
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Community broadband provides a local solution for a global problem
According to a 2023 study by the International Telecommunications Union, approximately 2.6 billion people are unconnected to the internet. It’s a staggering figure. There are many reasons for this,...
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Fish and chips on Mars: our research shows how colonists could produce their...
Humans can’t help being fascinated by space. And that interest seems to be making the possibility of moving humanity to another planet, like Mars or the Moon, more distinct, with Nasa hoping to set up...
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Welcome to the age of space skepticism – and a growing revolt against elites
Over the past decade, a new form of skepticism about human activities in space has emerged. It seems to be based exclusively in the western world, and centered around the idea that increasingly...
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Underwater gardeners plant eelgrass to save 'dead' Danish fjord
Under a white tent on the shores of a polluted Danish fjord, volunteers and researchers prepare slender green shoots of eelgrass to be planted on the seabed to help restore the site's damaged...
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Japan's escargot entrepreneur achieves the 'impossible'
Far from Parisian bistros serving up Burgundy snails, one Japanese man has figured out how to farm the slimy species -- a feat that has long eluded the French.Toshihide Takase, 76, says he is "the...
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'Hurricane hunters:' calm science pilots in eye of the storm
When Hurricane Sally slammed coastal Florida in 2020, US pilot Dean Legidakes was aboard a scientific aircraft flying directly into the storm's core.Once back on land, he learned how the disaster...
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Thousands of fish dead as lake dries in Mexican drought
Thousands of fish have died as a lagoon in northern Mexico partly dried up amid a crippling drought plaguing the country.The Bustillos lagoon was below 50 percent of its normal water level, local...
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The secrets of Maya child sacrifice at Chichén Itzá uncovered using ancient DNA
After analyzing the remains of 64 ancient sacrificed individuals, most of whom were children, researchers have revealed new details about human sacrifice at the ancient Maya site of Chichén...
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Playful young male dolphins grow up to have more offspring
As humans, we grow up playing with other children. Animals of many species likewise play with their peers. But why? Play has its costs, especially for young animals. It uses energy that could help...
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Microrobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving...
Tumors that travel to the lungs, or lung metastases, pose a formidable challenge in the realm of cancer treatment. Conventional chemotherapy often falls short because it’s inefficient. It doesn’t...
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'Flat as a pancake': Trump supporters claim Earth isn't round in viral video
A new viral video showed supporters of Donald Trump arguing that the Earth is flat.According to The Good Liars, a comedy duo, the video was filmed at a rally for Trump. It had over a million views by...
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Polar bears could vanish from Canada's Hudson Bay if temperatures rise 2C
An international team of scientists said Thursday that polar bears faced local extinction in Canada's Hudson Bay by mid-century if global warming exceeds limits set under the Paris climate...
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