Science & Technology

San Francisco (AFP) - Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing chip that it said was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality....

Washington (AFP) - The United States is delaying its planned return to the Moon from 2026 to "mid-2027," citing heat shield issues and other problems plaguing its Orion crew capsule,...

San Francisco (AFP) - Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic to $8 billion in a deepened collaboration on artificial intelligence, the companies said Friday. The e-commerce and technology behemoth...

Dampierre-en-Yvelines (France) (AFP) - The skeleton of a 22-metre-long dinosaur (70 feet) fetched six million euros ($6. 4 million) Saturday, AFP learned from auction houses Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa

San Francisco (AFP) - Apple on Monday rolled out its first set of artificial intelligence features, dubbed "Apple Intelligence," across its premium iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, marking the tech...

Washington (AFP) - A NASA astronaut who was hospitalized upon return from the International Space Station for an unspecified medical condition was released Saturday in "good health," the US space...

Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) - NASA probe Europa Clipper lifted off from the US Kennedy Space Center on Monday, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter to discover...

Boca Chica (United States) (AFP) - SpaceX successfully "caught" the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket Sunday as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight, a world...

Boca Chica (United States) (AFP) - SpaceX's next test flight of its Starship megarocket Sunday could mark a world first: catching the returning first-stage booster using the launch tower's "chopstick"...

Paris (AFP) - The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to two US scientists for discovering microRNA, a previously unknown type of genetic switch which is hoped can...