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Google parent Alphabet's Q1 profits beat estimates...
Google's parent Alphabet on Thursday trounced revenue and profit expectations for the first quarter of this year, causing shares t...
US astronauts prep for first crewed flight on Boei...
Two US astronauts arrived Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of their launch aboard the Boeing Starliner's fir...
Austrian artist turns Hitler manifesto into cookbo...
Long reviled as a manifesto of hate, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" has become the raw ingredient for an art project reconstituting t...
China's Shenzhou-18 mission takes off bound for sp...
A crew of three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-18 mission took off on a rocket bound for the Tiangong space station Thursday, th...
Philippine court blocks GMO 'golden rice' producti...
A Philippine court has blocked the commercial propagation of genetically modified golden rice because it said conflicting scientif...
The real star of the Paris Olympics: the Seine
The Seine will play a starring role in this summer's Paris Olympics, with the opening ceremony set to take place on the river, whi...
Portugal marks 50 years of democracy with far righ...
Portugal marks Thursday 50 years since a military coup ended a decades-long dictatorship and 13 years of colonial wars in Africa,...
Long-lost Klimt portrait auctioned off for 30 mn e...
A painting by artist Gustav Klimt that reappeared after nearly a century sold for 30 million euros ($32 million) on Wednesday, set...
China to send fresh crew to Tiangong space station
China will send a fresh crew to its Tiangong space station on Thursday evening, Beijing's Manned Space Agency announced, the lates...
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...