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The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the vagaries of bug fans worldwide.
Apple offered the latest version of its budget friendly phone for pre-sale in key markets on Friday, in an effort to woo price-sensitive customers in countries like China and India.
Universities across China have launched artificial intelligence (AI) courses this month based on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, whose AI breakthrough has been described as a 'Sputnik moment' for China and garnered widespread attention.
Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but birds-of-paradise are especially flamboyant with hues of emerald, lemon, cobalt and ruby. Now, research has revealed these stunning birds are also sending secret color signals that are invisible to human eyes.
An unidentified object was found in northwestern Poland on Thursday, a police spokesperson said, as Poland's space agency probes whether similar objects discovered in the country on Wednesday came from Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed Thursday after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island's worst such wildlife accident, police said.
A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the European Space Agency’s risk assessment sits at 2.8 per cent.
You might soon be able to use Apple AirPods as a low-cost alternative to a hearing aid.
Bell is looking for answers after its subsea fibre-optic cable connecting western Newfoundland to Nova Scotia was severed for the second time in the space of a year.
NASA is losing four key senior officials close to its flagship moon program, according to people familiar with the changes, adding more uncertainty over the agency’s space exploration trajectory as Elon Musk and President Donald Trump play up missions to Mars.
A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian King has been unearthed, in what has been called a 'remarkable' discovery by officials.
If you catch Sasha Ivanov at the supermarket these days, chances are he’ll be snapping a photo of something on the store’s shelves.
Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales that stranded on a remote beach on Australia’s island state of Tasmania, officials said on Wednesday.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a steady flickering of light punctuated by occasional bright flares as material is drawn inward by its enormous gravitational pull.
If you think you have your egg-boiling technique down to a science, there is still a chance you haven’t prepared the 'perfect' boiled egg.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has said it will lay an undersea cable stretching across five continents to carry data, including for developing artificial intelligence.
