Conservationists set up a colony of white storks in southern England, touching off a debate over whether they truly belong there.

Troy E. Meink’s comments were the first public acknowledgment of American weapons in orbit. The Pentagon has been preparing for potential conflict in space with Russia or China.

Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.

Kent Hups, a high school science teacher in Colorado, discovered a 23-foot trackway of fossilized dinosaur footprints, which offer a glimpse of how the apex predator moved 66 million years ago.

Birds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said.

Bill Gates, the foundation’s chairman, has been vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence. The donation will be invested in A.I. projects to bridge social inequalities.

A researcher surveying a San Mateo County creek stumbled upon a preserved Pacific mastodon molar estimated to be at least 10,000 years old.