Science & Technology

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....

Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) - It's a world like no other: a metal-rich asteroid that could be the remnants of a small planet, or perhaps an entirely new...

Houston (AFP) - A sample collected from the 4. 5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on...

Houston (AFP) - NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the...

Paris (AFP) - Claudia Goldin has long thought of herself as a kind of detective within economics, employing tools across academic disciplines in a quest to examine how women fit...