Science & Technology

Washington (AFP) - From fearmongering about a looming "World War III" to false narratives linking a cabal of global elite to a cyberattack, a torrent of online conspiracy theories took...

Washington (AFP) - Catastrophic computer outages caused by a software update from one company have once again exposed the dangers of global technological dependence on a handful of players, experts...

Paris (AFP) - Airlines, banks, TV channels and financial institutions were thrown into turmoil on Friday by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update...

New York (AFP) - The buyer who spent a record $44. 6 million to buy a stegosaurus fossil at auction was Ken Griffin, CEO of the Citadel hedge fund, according...

Washington (AFP) - NASA announced Wednesday that cost overruns and delays have forced it to cancel a planned Moon rover it already spent $450 million to develop, marking a significant...

New York (AFP) - The largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found, nicknamed Apex, sold for a record breaking $44. 6 million at auction in New York on Wednesday, Sotheby's said

New York (AFP) - New York has been the backdrop to countless "end of the world" storylines in film and TV. But on Tuesday an actual meteor shot over the...

Washington (AFP) - It's well known that as far as the climate crisis goes, time is of the essence. Now a study out Monday shows that the melting of the...

Washington (AFP) - SpaceX's highly reliable Falcon 9 rocket has experienced a rare failure that means the latest batch of the company's Starlink satellites won't make it into orbit, the...

Washington (AFP) - Books and movies of the future could all start to feel the same if creative industries embrace artificial intelligence to help write stories, a study published on...