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Rtbilder // Shutterstock As the duckling in Dr. Seuss' "Are You My Mother?" knows all too well, cross-species animal adoption is rare. It has occurred, though, in limited animal groups spanning mostly mammals and birds. Such occurrences have captured ...

Rtbilder // Shutterstock As the duckling in Dr. Seuss' "Are You My Mother?" knows all too well, cross-species animal adoption is rare. It has occurred, though, in limited animal groups spanning mostly mammals and birds. Such occurrences have captured ...

Laura Purdie Salas' Finding Family is based on a true story from a Wisconsin lake in 2019 where researchers from the Loon Project discovered loons raising a duckling.

There may not be an agreement on where airspace ends and space begins, but experts say other questions floated during the balloon saga have down-to-earth answers.

With approximately 700 million of the world’s 3.7 billion unconnected people living in Africa, ITU estimates that providing internet access for everyone on the continent will cost nearly $97 billion in investments. Giant tech companies are taking up this challenge.

Since the 1990s, male loons monitored in Wisconsin and Minnesota have dropped from an average weight of nearly 4.6 kilograms to about 4.4.

Image sourced from MIT Technology Review Alphabet is shutting down its balloon-powered mobile Internet service, Loon. The project’s main objective was to bring abundant, affordable Internet access to unconnected communities around the world. “When we unveiled Loon in June 2013, we meant everything in its name. It was a way-out-there and risky venture,” says Astro Teller, X lead. “Sadly, despite the team’s groundbreaking technical achievements over the last 9 years — doing many thing...

Alphabet Inc is shutting down Loon after concluding the business, which offers balloons as an alternative to cell towers, is not commercially viable, Google’s parent company said on Thursday. Founded in 2011, Loon aimed to bring connectivity to areas of the world where building cell towers is too expensive or treacherous using balloons the length of tennis courts and solar-powered networking gear. But the wireless carriers which Loon saw as buyers questioned the technical and political viab...