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Children's animated character, Shaun the Sheep, landed safely back in Britain after joining NASA for its trip to the moon with Artemis I last year.

A robotic shark that gobbles up plastic waste has been let loose in London Docklands, to clean up the water by removing the equivalent of more than 22,700 plastic bottles per day, according to its developers.

The Hawaiian island of Oahu now has new waves to offer – made in Germany. Citywave founder Rainer Klimaschewski says the technology was inspired by the Eisbachwelle, a well-known river surfing spot in Munich.

A team of biomedical engineers in Australia have developed a small flexible robot that can be used to 3D print biomaterials directly inside the human body, in the hopes of streamlining future medical procedures.

For nearly four years, Thailand's scenic Maya Bay was a place of solitude for blacktip reef sharks. Now tourists are returning in droves and Thailand must strike a delicate balance between tourist revenue and conservation. Rosanna Philpott has more.

Cryptocurrency bankruptcies and worries over electric power consumption have failed to dent the industry's growth in Texas, which is seeing a huge rise in demand from miners. Trevor Koroll reports.

The European Union has plans to phase out cars with internal combustion engines after 2035. But Germany is opposing the law, demanding that sales be allowed of new cars that run on e-fuels. So what exactly are e-fuels? Rachel Judah has more.

Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket lifted off for the first time on Wednesday, passing a key milestone to demonstrate the vehicle's in-flight strength before its second stage failed upon reaching space, a company live stream showed.

Chinese university students have created a remote kissing device designed for people in long-distance relationships.

Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago.

Environmentalists are wary that construction of Indonesia's new capital Nusantara would disturb some of Borneo's endemic fauna, including endangered long-nosed monkeys, Irrawaddy dolphins and orangutans. Olivia Chan has more.

A Brazilian NGO planted over 30,000 trees to reforest a mangrove wetland to mark Water Day in an effort to protect river waters and marine life.

The inventor of the Jet Suit, Richard Browning, has revealed plans to form an International Race Series, with celebrities and sporting personalities pushing the limits of physics in waterfront locations worldwide.

Introducing innovative and sustainable solutions, Dubai-based company Dake Rechsand came up with different models to face water scarcity, mitigate floods and enhance desert farming in the UAE.

A boat designed to collect ocean waste took to the water for the first time off the shore of Indonesia's Bali island on Tuesday (March 21), marking the beginning of its mission to combat marine plastic pollution.

Phillips 66 is promising a greener future as it moves to halt crude-oil processing and build a massive renewable diesel plant in California, leading a global trend. Alex Cohen has more.

Shortly after Andrew McCarroll's wife was diagnosed with mental health issues, he turned to an app called Replika to help him cope. He forged a serious AI-based relationship with an avatar called B'Lanna, and he married her. But one day she started rejecting his advances. Francesca Lynagh has more.

Generative artificial intelligence has become this year's buzzword capturing the public's fancy, but the technology is also provoking some concern about its use and potential abuse. Here is everything you need to know about this technology. Kristy Kilburn reports.

China's Baidu unveiled its much-awaited artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Ernie Bot on Thursday (March 16), but disappointed investors with its use of pre-recorded videos and the lack of a public launch, sending its shares tumbling. Francis Maguire reports.

Microsoft on Thursday trumpeted its latest plans to put artificial intelligence into the hands of more users, answering a spate of unveilings this week by its rival Google with upgrades to its own widely used office software. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

Danish vertical farm company Nordic Harvest is looking to expand its output, as founder and CEO Anders Riemann hopes to ‘produce much more food on an optimized basis inside cities’. Ilan Rubens reports.

Digital platform Recapp offers a door-to-door recycling pick-up service for individuals, businesses and schools in the UAE to promote a sustainable lifestyle.

In front of an empty DJ booth at a London nightclub, partygoers danced to AI-generated beats in a unique experimental rave. Francesca Lynagh has more.

Nike said it will stop using kangaroo skins for its shoes this year, weeks after a similar step from German rival Puma, which would end a highly controversial practice that has drawn ire from consumers and animal rights activists.

The startup OpenAI on Tuesday said it is beginning to release a powerful artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4, setting the stage for human-like technology to proliferate and more competition between its backer Microsoft and Alphabet Inc's Google. This report produced by Chris Dignam with analysis from Reuters Technology Correspondent Jeffrey Dastin.