Science & Technology

Washington (AFP) - Blue Origin said it would try again on Tuesday to launch a rocket and return to space for the first time in more than a year, after...

Washington (AFP) - NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth -- to send...

Washington (AFP) - Blue Origin on Monday postponed its long-awaited return to space, citing technical reasons and promising to try again later this week?. Jeff Bezos' space company has not...

Washington (AFP) - A little-known dog lineage with fur so thick it was spun into blankets was selectively bred for millennia by Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest until its...

Bloomington (United States) (AFP) - Linguistics experts are turning to cutting-edge technologies to revitalize threatened Native American languages -- and rejuvenate generations of Indigenous tradition -- through new approaches such...

San Francisco (AFP) - Sales of smartphones continued to shrink globally in the recently-ended quarter as consumers watched spending, market tracker Counterpoint reported on Monday. Smartphone sales fell 8 percent,...

Houston (AFP) - After spending more than a year in space, Frank Rubio now has to get used to that pesky thing Earthlings call gravity. "Walking hurts a little bit...

Albuquerque (United States) (AFP) - Skygazers across the Americas turned their faces upwards Saturday for a rare celestial event: an annular solar eclipse.  A crowd of people wearing protective eyewear...

London (AFP) - Xbox maker Microsoft closed its blockbuster acquisition of Activision Blizzard, whose video games include "Call of Duty" and "Candy Crush", sealing one of the biggest technology tie-ups...

Washington (AFP) - For the first time ever, a NASA probe is set to journey to an object composed not of rock, ice, or gas, but metal: the asteroid Psyche....