Science & Technology

National Harbor (United States) (AFP) - Mastering words such as "cricetine" and "indumentum", 12-year-old Bruhat Soma clinched victory Thursday in the United States' spelling bee. The seventh-grade student from St

Washington (AFP) - The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system that existed...

Vandenberg Air Force Base (United States) (AFP) - A rocket carrying a sophisticated satellite blasted off Tuesday from California on a mission to investigate what role clouds could play in...

Lompoc (United States) (AFP) - Will clouds help cool or warm our world in the years ahead?The EarthCARE satellite will blast off Tuesday from California on a mission to find...

San Francisco (AFP) - OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced the formation of a new safety committee on Tuesday, weeks after the departures of key executives raised questions about the...

Washington (AFP) - Boeing is set to launch its first crewed space mission in June without fixing a small helium gas leak on its troubled Starliner spaceship, officials said Friday....

San Francisco (AFP) - Google on Friday said it is taking "swift action" to improve AI summaries of search results, after users mocked blunders like Barack Obama being the first...

Washington (AFP) - Starship, the world's most powerful rocket, is set for its next test flight on June 5, SpaceX announced on Friday. The launch window from the company's Starbase...

New York (AFP) - News Corp on Wednesday announced a deal to let ChatGPT-maker OpenAI use content from its publications in artificial intelligence products. OpenAI will get access to current...

Seattle (AFP) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended his company's AI technology as safe for widespread use, as concerns mount over potential risks and lack of proper safeguards for ChatGPT-style...