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Following a “wild and amazing ride" back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS), Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti returned to Europe on Saturday night (October 15) after nearly six months of research aboard the orbital outpost.

Using the UAE's desert as a testing ground, an agriculture tech startup creates a natural clay liquid nearly as thin as water to turn dry lands into green landscapes.

Meet Ali al-Saeed, the Egyptian man who turned his 1985 Fiat-127 gas-powered car into an electric one, to save on rising fuel prices and resort to a more enviornment-friendly mode of transportation.

Oslo is on course to become the first capital city in the world with an all-electric public transport system, targeting that goal for the end of 2023 as part of its aim to become the world's first wholly emissions-free city by 2030. Francesca Lynagh reports.

Israel's Redefine Meat has struck a partnership with importer Giraudi Meats to drive European distribution of its "New Meat" steak cuts produced on 3D printers. Louisa Naks has more.

NASA released a new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope that shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star.

A 1-year-old Spanish baby has become the world's first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure, Madrid's La Paz hospital said on Tuesday (October 11).

Inside tanks filled with liquid nitrogen are the bodies and heads of 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future. Emma Jehle has more.

A new study published on Wednesday (October 12) in the journal Nature shows a promising future for an untethered exoskeleton boot that could improve the lives of people suffering from mobility issues. Ilan Rubens reports.

Egyptian company Schaduf is growing vegetables inside a hydroponic fridge, allowing customers to buy fresh produce straight from the supermarket in Cairo.

Meta Platforms has unveiled its Quest Pro virtual and mixed reality headset, marking a milestone for Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's break into the higher-end market for extended reality computing devices.

XPeng's eVTOL flying car X2 made its first public flying on Monday (October 10) in Dubai, described by its manufacturer as an “important base for the next generation of flying cars.”

In a research farm in New Zealand, more than a dozen calves line up and eagerly drink their daily milk formula blended with Kowbucha, a punnily named probiotic that studies show reduces burps – or methane emissions. Francesca Lynagh reports.

Research student Haziq Ramli wears an exoskeleton to harvest fruit from oil palm trees at his family estate. Such automation has been helping plantation firms with the labor crunch in Malaysia. Olivia Chan has more.

A four-member SpaceX Crew Dragon team, including the first Native American woman sent to orbit Nicole Mann, safely docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday (October 6) and moved aboard to begin a five-month science mission.

Why is Elon Musk suddenly thinking about creating an "everything app," and what does that even mean? Olivia Chan has more.

A new sensor-packed firefighting helmet uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help rescue victims faster by giving firefighters the ability to 'see' through smoke. Alice Rizzo reports.

Scientist Barry Sharpless joins an elite band of scientists who have won two Nobel prizes. He won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Carolyn Bertozzi and Morten Meldal for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds and that offer insight into cell biology.

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is the first European female commander of the International Space Station. She recently took time to answer young girls' questions – accompanied by a lookalike Barbie doll. Ilan Rubens reports.

Australia will set aside at least 30% of its land mass for conservation in a bid to protect plants and animals in the island continent famed for species found nowhere else in the world, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said on Tuesday.

Miso Robotics in Pasadena has started rolling out its ‘Flippy 2’ robot, which cuts the human out of a big chunk of the cooking process in fast-food restaurants. Ilan Rubens reports.

To help control dengue fever in Thailand, Japanese cosmetic company Kao has produced a new mosquito repellent serum that covers the human skin with a texture mosquitoes loathe.

Located at the tip of South America, where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet, Cape Horn in Chile is the closest land mass to Antarctica and home to a unique ecosystem that scientists say is a natural laboratory to study climate change.

Mauto, a company specializing in sustainable transportation, has launched two types of electric motorbikes that are in Togo and Benin in hopes of boosting local economies and reducing polluting emissions. Olivia Chan reports.

A global race is on to develop electric planes, representing hope for the aviation industry that’s lagging when it comes to tackling carbon emissions. Ilan Rubens reports.