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China, future HQ: New ASML boss faces bulging in-t...
Frenchman Christophe Fouquet takes the reins of Dutch chip giant ASML on Wednesday with a daunting to-do list, top of which will b...
Secret UK women's codecracking army gets belated r...
During World War II, dozens of women Cambridge University students worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi codes...
NASA's Voyager 1 phones home after months
NASA's Voyager 1 probe -- the most distant man-made object in the universe -- is returning usable information to ground control fo...
The Ukrainian drones taking on Russia's Black Sea...
Standing on the shores of a lake with a remote control, a Ukrainian soldier trained his eyes on a small and seemingly innocuous gr...
Portugal poised to celebrate 50 years of democracy
Portugal on Thursday marks 50 years since the Carnation Revolution, a military coup that ended its colonial wars in Africa and ush...
Microsoft teases lifelike avatar AI tech but gives...
Researchers at Microsoft have revealed a new artificial tool that can create deeply realistic human avatars -- but offered no time...
WHO clarifies terminology for air-transmitted path...
The World Health Organization on Thursday announced a new, catch-all terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air, eras...
X working with Pakistan govt to 'understand concer...
Social media platform X said Thursday it would work with Pakistan's government "to understand its concerns" after authorities insi...
Court orders Pakistan to restore social media site...
A Pakistan High Court ordered the government on Wednesday to restore access to social media platform X within a week, a lawyer sai...
Fire at Copenhagen landmark 'under control'
Danish rescue services said Tuesday that the fire that engulfed Copenhagen's 17th-century former stock exchange, ravaging the buil...
Astronomers discover largest black hole in Milky W...
Astronomers identified the largest stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, accor...
NASA confirms space station debris hit Florida man...
An object that crashed from the sky into an American man's home was a hunk of debris ejected from the International Space Station,...
NASA seeks faster, cheaper way to bring Mars rocks...
NASA said Monday it was looking for ways to bring Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth earlier and at a...
Gaza's historic treasures saved by 'irony of histo...
Gaza's ancient Greek site of Anthedon has been bombed, its "Napoleon's Palace" destroyed and the only private museum burned down:...
Bad boys: Study finds aggressive bonobo males attr...
Humankind's two closest primate relatives are often said to embody contrasting sides of our nature: peace-loving bonobos versus vi...
Ex-Resistance Olympic torch-bearer still wants to...
At the age of 102, Melanie Berger-Volle will carry the Olympic torch as high as she can, despite her fragile shoulder, to champion...
NASA unveils probe bound for Jupiter's possibly li...
US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter's icy moons as part of huma...
Microsoft to invest $2.9 bn in Japan AI push
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a $2.9 billion investment over the next two years in Japan to bolster the country's push into artif...
Peter Higgs: physicist who predicted 'God particle...
Nobel laureate Peter Higgs gave his name to one of the great scientific discoveries of the last century, earning a place alongside...
Nobel-winning 'God particle' physicist Higgs dies...
British physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of a mass-giving particle -- the so-called Higgs boson -- jointly earned him the Nobel...
'I cried a little': from Texas to Canada, the awe...
The day died and was reborn a few minutes later Monday in the southern United States. There were hugs, tears and gasping as people...
Totality insanity: Eclipse mania grips North Ameri...
Eclipse mania gripped North America on Monday as a breathtaking celestial spectacle set to be witnessed by tens of millions of peo...
S. Korea says second spy satellite placed in orbit
South Korea put its second domestically made spy satellite into orbit, Seoul's defence ministry said Monday, after it launched fro...
Microsoft says China using AI to sow division in U...
China is ramping up use of AI-generated content and fake social media accounts to inflame division in the United States and elsewh...
Meta to start labeling AI-generated content in May
Facebook and Instagram giant Meta on Friday said it will begin labeling AI-generated media beginning in May, as it tries to reassu...
Milei reignites debate on Argentine dictatorship,...
President Javier Milei's government has rekindled debate over Argentina's military dictatorship by questioning the number of its v...
The universe's accelerated expansion might be slow...
The universe is still expanding at an accelerating rate, but it may have slowed down recently compared to a few billion years ago,...
Three companies in the running for NASA's next Moo...
Three companies are in the running to provide NASA's next Moon rover for crewed missions planned later this decade, the space agen...
NASA collects 'space debris' that crashed into Flo...
NASA said Tuesday it was analyzing an object that crashed from the sky into a Florida man's home -- which could well be a piece of...
World's most powerful MRI scans first images of hu...
The world's most powerful MRI scanner has delivered its first images of human brains, reaching a new level of precision that is ho...
Totality ready: US braces for April 8 solar eclips...
US communities along the path of the April 8 total solar eclipse are preparing for the year's biggest astronomic event, with milli...
German football to change controversial kit number
The German Football Association (DFB) said Monday it would change the typeface used on its shirts after one of the kit numbers dre...