Science & Technology

– Manuscript – A new report suggests Canada’s Western Hudson Bay polar bear population has dropped 27 percent during the past five years. Every autumn, bears living along the western edge of the Hudson Bay pass through the sub-Arctic town of Churchill, Manitoba. The yearly movement has helped make the area’s bears one of the most studied groups in the world. Bear-watching … [Read more...] about Canadian Polar Bear Population Drops Sharply

– Manuscript – Scientists increasingly are aiming to move animals threatened by rising temperatures to new areas where they never lived before in an effort to save them. One example is a project in Hawaii that moved, or relocated, a seabird species from one island to another about 800 kilometers away. Traditionally, scientists have considered the idea of species … [Read more...] about Climate Concerns Push Scientists to Move Species to New Areas

– Manuscript – Scientists in Chile's Patagonia area have found the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica. The fossils include remains of megaraptors that would have controlled the area's food chain before their mass extinction. Megaraptors were carnivorous, or meat-eating, dinosaurs that lived in parts of South America during the Cretaceous period some … [Read more...] about Scientists Find Dinosaur Fossils in Patagonia

– Manuscript – Sony publicly showed for the first time a new car that it will produce with Honda. The car, announced in October, appeared for public viewing last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The electric vehicle, called the Afeela, will use technology from Qualcomm, including its "Snapdragon" digital chassis. Sony's long-awaited … [Read more...] about Sony to Produce Electric Car with Honda

– Manuscript – Government science groups say that 2022 did not quite set a record for heat. But it was in the top five or six warmest years on record. The exact placement depends on who was doing the measuring. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) measured 2022’s worldwide average temperature as 14.76 degrees Celsius. That ranks as the … [Read more...] about 2022 Was One of Warmest on Record