Science & Technology

Washington (AFP) - Adventurer Namira Salim became the first Pakistani to travel into space on Friday, riding aboard Virgin Galactic's fifth successful flight in five months, the US company announced....

Washington (AFP) - Amazon launched two satellites on Friday as part of its plan to deliver the internet from space and compete with Elon Musk's Starlink service. The Atlas V...

Washington (AFP) - Amazon is set to launch two satellites on Friday, in its first test mission as part of its plan to deliver the internet from space and compete...

Paris (AFP) - Elon Musk's social media platform X has stripped headlines from news articles shared by users, in a move likely to further worsen relations with media groups. The...

New York (AFP) - Google on Wednesday said its latest premium-priced Pixel phone would have powerful generative AI models running independently on the device, as the search engine giant seeks to...

Washington (AFP) - Talk about bouncing back. MIT professor Moungi Bawendi is a co-winner of this year's Nobel chemistry prize for helping develop "quantum dots" -- nanoparticles that are now...

Washington (AFP) - This year's Nobel Chemistry winners are pioneers in the nanoworld.  During the 1980s, Alexi Ekimov, 78, and Louis Brus, 80, working independently and on opposite sides of...

Puerto Ayora (Ecuador) (AFP) - With a long grey beard and old-school brown suit, a Charles Darwin lookalike observes marine iguanas and the blue-footed booby - an iconic bird on...

Stockholm (AFP) - A trio of US-based researchers on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing tiny "quantum dots" used to illuminate TVs and lamps, hours after a prematurely...

Washington (AFP) - Meta is proposing to offer European users a subscription-based version of Instagram and Facebook if they would rather not be tracked for ads, a source said on...