Science & Technology

Washington (AFP) - One giant leap for the private sector?A Houston-based company is set Thursday to attempt to land America's first spaceship on the Moon in more than 50 years,...

San Francisco (AFP) - ChatGPT spewed nonsensical answers to users' queries for hours Tuesday into Wednesday before eventually returning to its senses. OpenAI, which makes the world-leading generative artificial intelligence...

Washington (AFP) - The year 2024 promises to be a busy one for American Moon landings, all under a new partnership between NASA and the space industry. A first attempt...

Washington (AFP) - A company from Texas is poised to attempt a feat that until now has only been accomplished by a handful of national space agencies, but could soon...

San Francisco (AFP) - Elon Musk says the first human patient with a brain implant from his Neuralink startup is able to move a computer mouse with thought. Last month,...

Washington (AFP) - A stingray housed in a small-town aquarium in the United States is expecting offspring without ever having shared a tank with a male of her kind, making...

San Francisco (AFP) - OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and image generator DALL-E, said it was testing a text-to-video model called Sora that would allow users to create realistic videos...

Washington (AFP) - Ancient viruses that infected vertebrates hundreds of millions of years ago played a pivotal role in the evolution of our advanced brains and large bodies, a study...

Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) - An American spaceship attempting a lunar landing will aim to launch early Thursday, the second private-led effort this year after the first ended...

Washington (AFP) - Earth-bound surgeons remotely controlled a small robot aboard the International Space Station over the weekend, conducting the first-ever such surgery in orbit -- albeit on rubber bands....