Month: March 2021

German scientists say they have measured the smallest unit of time ever recorded. Researchers say the unit was measured in zeptoseconds. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of…

Nokia says it has been chosen by the American space agency NASA to build the first mobile phone network on the moon. The Finnish technology company recently announced that its…

Facebook has developed the first machine learning model that can translate between any two of 100 languages without going into English first. Facebook says the new multilingual machine translation model…

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday brought legal action against Google for its business methods. It said the company used its market power over internet search and advertising to limit…

At the San Diego Zoo, in Southern California, little Kurt looks and acts like any other baby horse. He likes to play, pushes against anything that gets in his way,…

A company testing driverless cars has received permission from the state of California to operate the vehicles without backup drivers. The tests will be carried out by Cruise, the self-driving…

Eight countries have signed an international agreement for moon exploration called the Artemis Accords. The U.S. space agency, NASA, announced the agreement last week. NASA is trying to create rules…

A space object recently discovered as a possible asteroid may actually be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing attempt in the 1960s. Astronomers observed the object last month through…

Carmakers from the United States and other countries are thinking about ways to manufacture and improve a technology called an e-axle or e-drive. This technology is fast becoming an area…

Apple has announced its first smartphones built to work with 5G, the world’s fastest ever wireless technology. While the new phones may have been long awaited by Apple fans, many…

An American startup company recently gave reporters a chance to see its first demonstrator aircraft, which is set to begin flight testing next year. The tests will be an important…

A new study suggests Earth could have lost up to 60 percent of its atmosphere in the collision of space objects that created the moon. Most scientists believe this event…

Tasmanian devils have been returned to the Australian mainland 3,000 years after the animals died off there. The mainland population is believed to have been partly killed off by a…

Google’s parent company Alphabet announced plans this month to pay one billion dollars to news media for their stories over the next three years. Reuters news agency says the move…

French and American scientists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday for developing a tool that can change the genetic material of living things. Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and…