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Mysterious dusty object spotted orbiting distant star

Unlike dusty comets - which should quickly disintegrate - the object has remained intact while shedding an enormous amount of matter.

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Sweden's Highest Mountain Is Shrinking, And The Reason Is All Too Predictable

New measurements from scientists in Sweden reveal that Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest mountain, is sweltering and transforming in the face of unrelenting global warming.A

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Sweden's Highest Mountain Is Shrinking, And The Reason Is All Too Predictable

New measurements from scientists in Sweden reveal that Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest mountain, is sweltering and transforming in the face of unrelenting global warming.A

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NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock '10 times more stable' than existing space clocks

The size of a shoebox, the tiny system could be used as a space-based GPS for missions to Mars and potentially even further away.

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Lang Lang releases 'lifelong dream' Bach recording

The pianist also announced recitals in Shanghai, Xi'an of Shaanxi province and Beijing from Dec 9 to 27.Describing the project as his lifelong dream, the pianist says he has been studying this wor

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Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms

Google is offering financial support to local newsrooms hit by the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of its Google News Initiative.The company isn’t disclosing the size of what

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Declining ad rates may signal a reset for startup SEM strategies

With limited prospects for growth, one of the iron laws of economic downturns is that advertising is among the first budgets to be cut. Advertising revenues have already cratered at many alt-weekly ne

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China releases updated COVID-19 database

The National Genomics Data Center (NGDC) has updated its novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) database, according to the Beijing Institute of Genomics from the Chinese

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China's inland surface water quality significantly improves: study

A new study published on Friday in the journal Science Advances showed that China's inland surface water quality improved significantly from 2003 to 2017.The improvemen