BENGALURU: India's Agnikul Cosmos called off a test flight of its first rocket on Tuesday seconds before it was due to launch - the fourth such cancellation in the last three months. Launches of India's second privately built...
WASHINGTON: The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians, government officials said,...
Modern life relies on electricity and electrical devices, from cars and buses to phones and laptops, to the electrical systems in homes. Behind many of these devices is a type of energy storage device, the supercapacitor. My team of...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF)on Monday launched the Neo Space Group to work on the kingdom's nascent satellite and space industry, its first investment in the sector. One of the world's largest sovereign...
A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like beak, that was donated to a Chinese university came with a surprise - one revealed only after scientists viewed it under ultraviolet...
A breakthrough cooling Technology could help invigorate quantum computing and slash costly preparation time in key scientific experiments by weeks.Scientists often need to generate temperatures close to absolute zero for quantum computing...
BEIJING: China has set up its third planned state-backed investment fund to boost its semiconductor industry, with a registered capital of 344 billion yuan ($47.5 billion), according to a filing with a government-run companies registry. The...
Scarlett Johannson has gone to war with OpenAI, and in the battle for public opinion, OpenAI is losing—badly. Last week, OpenAI released an update of its AI chatbot called ChatGPT-4o, which featured a female voice talking to...
BEIJING: A collaborative research team from China and Ukraine has been monitoring near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) through regular observations to attain accurate positioning and precise orbit determination for those celestial bodies. The...
SHANGHAI: US carmaker Tesla broke ground on a mega factory in Shanghai on Thursday to manufacture its energy-storage batteries, Megapacks, a project hailed by the company as a "milestone." The latest move underscores Tesla's...
US businessman Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot Grok, The Information reported on Saturday citing a presentation...
ANKARA: Chinese scientists have "successfully" transplanted the liver of a gene-edited pig into a 71-year-old patient with large right lobe liver cancer, official media on Saturday reported, dubbing it a first-of-its-kind...
Google has updated its search engine with an artificial intelligence (AI) tool — but the new feature has reportedly told users to eat rocks, add glue to their pizzas and clean their washing machines with chlorine gas, according...
DeepMind has unveiled the third version of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered structural biology software, AlphaFold, which models how proteins fold. Structural biology is the molecular basis study of biological materials...
WASHINGTON: Kabosu, the Japanese dog that became a global meme and the face of alternative Cryptocurrency Dogecoin has died at 18, her owner announced in a blog post on Friday. The Japanese Shiba Inu passed away while sleeping, her...
WASHINGTON: Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab and NASA quelled two technical issues on the company's Starliner spacecraft, including a "design vulnerability" requiring a temporary workaround, to get the capsule...
BRUSSELS: OpenAI's efforts to produce less factually false output from its ChatGPT chatbot are not enough to ensure full compliance with European Union data rules, a task force at the EU's privacy watchdog...
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The groundwork for a major trial of gene-edited wheat has begun in Australia, where a state company is growing hundreds of varieties it says could be up to 10% more productive and make farming more sustainable. Gene-editing is an emerging...
BEIJING: A woman accused of converting bitcoin into cash and property to help hide the proceeds of a 5 billion pound ($6.4 billion) fraud was jailed for nearly seven years on Friday for money laundering after a trial in a London court. Prosecutors...
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal chewed the leaves of a liana vine...
