CHENGDU, China — They’ve never met, but Ping Ping and Fu Shuang are getting ready for the blind date of a lifetime. The two pandas are preparing to leave China on a nearly 8,000-mile trip to their new ...

The pandas will be provided to the U.S. zoo through an international cooperative research agreement on giant panda conservation with China Christopher Edwards is a writer on the Lifestyle team at ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

Strep throat is a common childhood illness. Some kids get it again and again, and a simple round of antibiotics usually clears it up. But for a small number of children, the bacteria that causes strep ...

Pandas have also evolved a " pseudo-thumb " that allows them to grip bamboo stems tightly. Their molars are broader than in other bears — essential for crushing hardy bamboo stems, as are pandas' ...

Pandas are ready for primetime in Washington, D.C.! Bao Li and Qing Bao, the giant pandas who moved from China to the National Zoo in October, are finally ready to meet their fans. The Giant Panda ...

Two giant pandas arrived at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, less than a year after the nation's capital said goodbye to another pair of pandas that were on loan from China. The new ...

A motorcade through the capital revived “panda diplomacy” between Washington and Beijing for the first time in nearly a year. By Michael Crowley and Eric Lee Reporting from Washington A pair of pandas ...

After an 8,000-mile journey from China, Washington’s two new giant pandas arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Tuesday, delighting panda fans and continuing a conservation program that goes ...

A pair of giant pandas that arrived in San Diego from China a little more than a month ago have finally debuted and are now on display for the public at San Diego Zoo. Yun Chuan (yoon chu-an) and Xin ...