Australia unveils law forcing tech giants to pay for news
Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a "world-leading" initiative sure to prompt...
Extinction: Quarter of UK mammals ‘under threat’
A quarter of native mammals now at risk of extinction in the UK. [caption id="attachment_8501" align="alignnone" width="962"] The wildcat is one of two species designated...
Nasa Mars rover: Perseverance robot launches to detect life on Red Planet
The US space agency's Perseverance robot has left Earth on a mission to try to detect life on Mars. Artwork: Did Mars ever host life?...
Killer of Rafiki, Uganda’s rare silverback mountain gorilla, jailed
The killer of one of Uganda's best known mountain gorillas, Rafiki, has been jailed for 11 years. [caption id="attachment_8214" align="alignnone" width="966"] Rafiki was thought to...
How many Mars missions have been successful?
It's often said that about half of all missions to Mars have failed. But getting a more precise figure for successful and unsuccessful Mars shots...
Facebook, Google absorb US lawmakers’ jabs in rare Big Tech hearing
[caption id="attachment_8081" align="alignnone" width="960"] Hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on "Online Platforms and Market Power", on Capitol Hill...
NASA poised to launch new rover to seek evidence of past Martian life
[caption id="attachment_8126" align="alignnone" width="957"] A replica of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is shown during a press conference ahead of the launch of a United...
US warns of ‘consequences’ if Brazil picks Huawei 5G
[caption id="attachment_8095" align="alignnone" width="971"] The United States has been actively lobbying countries worldwide to boycott Huawei [/caption] SAO PAULO: The US ambassador in Brasilia warned...
Airbus to build ‘first interplanetary cargo ship’
Airbus-France will build the huge satellite that brings the first Martian rock samples back to Earth. [caption id="attachment_8047" align="alignnone" width="966"] Artwork: The Earth Return Orbiter...
China’s Mars probe photographs Earth en route to Red Planet
[caption id="attachment_7952" align="alignnone" width="966"] A view of the Earth and Moon taken by China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe from a distance of 1.2 million km. [/caption]...