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Scientists at the International Rice Research Institute are developing varieties of climate-resistant rice, hoping to curb the effects of climate change on agriculture. Ilan Rubens has more.

Boston Dynamics’ dog-like robot has a new job -- helping Paris metro inspectors repair the hundred-year-old regional railway network.

Bolaji Fatai has never set foot in an airplane, but that hasn't stopped him from building his own remote-controlled model aircraft from trash and sending it soaring over Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.

Standing at 4 feet 8 inches tall, ARTEMIS is a first-of-its-kind robot that University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) mechanical engineers developed, and it is ready for the pitch. Ilan Rubens has more.

A Spanish hospital carried out a lung transplant using a pioneering technique with a robot and a new access route that no longer requires separating the ribs and opening up the chest, experts said on Monday (April 17). This edit contains graphic images of surgery.

Sardinia is successfully merging recycling and protection of endangered migratory birds in a 'blue circular economy' project, involving an artificial islet made of mussel farming waste.

Shell has launched its first electric ferry globally at its Singapore refinery and said it would work with the city-state's port authority to cut emissions from ships.

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday (April 17) he will launch an artificial intelligence platform that he calls "TruthGPT" to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google. Julian Satterthwaite reports.

On the rooftop of a bakery in the Lebanese village of Remhala, concentrated solar power systems installed by 'Partners With Sun' generate heat to operate a hybrid convection oven.

Elon Musk's SpaceX made final preparations early on Monday (April 17) to launch its powerful new Starship rocket system to space for the first time, on a brief but highly anticipated unmanned test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas.

ESA successfully launched its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) into space on Friday (April 14) from Kourou, French Guiana.

Scientists in New Mexico are giving dead birds a new life with an unconventional approach to wildlife research. A team at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro is taking birds that have been preserved through taxidermy and converting them into drones in order to study flight.

Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology have created a prototype of an edible and rechargeable battery, made entirely from food products.

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons.

Germany has adopted strategies to protect and rewet peatlands like Brandenburg’s ‘King's Meadow’, playing an important role in achieving targets to reduce greenhouse gasses.

In warehouses outside Madrid, hop vines grow under LED lights and close supervision in what their guardians say could be the best way to futureproof the supply of a key ingredient in beer, now threatened by climate change. Fiona Jones reports.

A zoo in Thailand's Northeast region has successfully hatched a Red-headed vulture, making it the first successful breeding of this species in Thailand in 30 years, and only the second instance worldwide.

NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars sometime in the 2030s, but before take-off, the space agency will observe the effects of a four-person crew staying in a simulated Mars habitat for about one year.

The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new insight into this elephant cousin - an icon of the Ice Age - including about its fluffy hair, small ears, cold tolerance, fat storage and even dry ear wax.

Alibaba on Tuesday (April 11) showed off its generative AI model Tongyi Qianwen - its version of the tech that powers chatbot sensation ChatGPT - and said it would be integrated into all of the company's apps in the near future. Fiona Jones reports.

Growing numbers of loggerhead sea turtles are nesting and laying eggs on western Mediterranean beaches in what some scientists suggest could be a case of climate change causing habitat expansion of the threatened species. Alice Rizzo has more.

London City Airport has scrapped the 100ml liquid limit rule thanks to new high-tech scanners, Chief Operating Officer Alison FitzGerald explains.

High school students and their tutors in Cyprus have developed a prototype robot powered with ChatGPT artificial intelligence technology to harness and improve teaching experiences in the classroom.

The International Seabed Authority will start accepting applications in July from companies that want to mine the ocean's floor, a decision that came after the U.N. body spent the past two weeks debating standards for the new and controversial practice.

At a time when new artificial-intelligence programs like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion seem poised to transform the art world, the legal system still hasn't figured out who owns the creative output – the users, the owners of the programs, or maybe no one at all. Emma Jehle has more.