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Inside a giant satellite antenna high in the Alps, a group of workers have installed dozens of solar panels in a bid to tap into Switzerland's unique geography to diversify its energy sources.

The British Museum says it plans to digitize its entire collection, citing the need to secure public access to its vast catalogue after it reported in August that 2,000 artefacts had been stolen or were missing.

Solar Team Eindhoven, a group of students from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e), has successfully completed a gruelling 620-mile test drive over Morocco's challenging terrains.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to train brain surgeons to perform critical operations more effectively and safely, according to the UK's National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN). Gabe Singer has more.

NASA on Friday (October 13) launched a spacecraft from Florida on its way to Psyche, the largest of the several metal-rich asteroids known in our solar system and a body thought to be the remnant core of an ancient protoplanet.

A new satellite, carrying the highest resolution commercial thermal sensor in orbit, has beamed back its first pictures of heat variations across the surface of the Earth.

SpaceX's Elon Musk said the company's Starship rocket could send an unmanned crew to Mars within the next three to four years, during the 74th International Astronautical Congress in Baku on Thursday (October 5).

Researchers from Northwestern University have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) that can design functional robots completely by itself within seconds.

Texan Oswald Reedus lost the ability to speak, walk, and move his left arm after a stroke in 2014. Now the University of Houston believes the 68-year-old is the world's first stroke patient to use a robotic arm controlled by his brain waves to recover the use of the limb at home. Matthew Larotonda reports.

UK startup ODIN Space hopes their novel detectors can help track some of the smallest, but also most dangerous, space debris that are endangering satellites and spacecraft. Alice Rizzo has more.

German students tested their prototype of a pedal-powered submarine off Spain's Canary Islands ahead of competing in international races to raise conservation awareness without harming marine ecosystems.

A Texas-based firm hopes to make the first landing on the moon by a commercial spacecraft before the year is out. Julian Satterthwaite reports.

Turning seawater into clean, drinkable water is one solution to meeting the ever-growing global demand for water. But desalination - essentially stripping seawater of salts and other minerals - is very energy intensive. Norwegian company Waterise claims to have a solution. Flora Bradley-Watson has more.

Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-metre-tall (14.8-feet), four-wheeled robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 million.

Autonomous, multifunctional and emissions free: German makers of the ‘Citybot’ plan to operate their robot car day and night to help local communities with rubbish collection, tree watering, lawn mowing and one day also at airports.

Switzerland's glaciers suffered their second worst melt rate this year after record 2022 losses, shrinking their overall volume by 10% in the last two years, monitoring body GLAMOS said. Alice Rizzo reports.

Meta Platforms unveiled artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, a new mixed reality headset and Ray-Ban smart glasses at its annual products conference in Menlo Park, California on Wednesday (September 27). Julian Satterthwaite reports.

A UAE-based research center is experimenting with limiting carbon emissions and improving soil quality by using a technology that transforms green waste into a charcoal-like material called biochar. Alice Rizzo reports.

Google's use of algorithms to power its search proved to be a transformation in the industry and took them above its predecessors and competitors at the time, expert Paul Duguid says, as the company celebrates its 25th anniversary.

U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio, who broke the record for the longest continuous space flight by an American, and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan on Wednesday after more than a year on the International Space Station (ISS).

Record growth in clean energy technology, including solar panels and electric vehicles, means it is still possible to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F), the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday (September 26).

London designer and artist, Eleonora Ortolani, has created what she says is the world’s first ice cream made from plastic waste. She hopes her creation will kickstart a debate about the future of food and the plastic pollution crisis. Gabe Singer reports.

Spanish prosecutors are investigating whether AI-generated images of nude girls as young as 13, allegedly created and shared by their peers in southwestern Spain, constitutes a crime. The mother of one of the victims, Miriam al Adib, says the girls are suffering anxiety attacks.

NASA was buzzing with excitement on Sunday (September 24), as a space capsule carrying its first, and the world's largest, soil sample ever collected from an asteroid parachuted into the Utah desert, delivering the celestial specimen to scientists, who hope to gain insights on the origins of Earth. Diane To reports.

Ecstatic NASA scientists explained on Sunday (September 24) the plans for the space agency's first-ever asteroid sample, after a space capsule carrying the specimen parachuted into the Utah desert earlier in the day.