China’s week-long meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC), which gathered some 3,000 delegates from the political, business and cultural elite in Beijing, has closed without...
In 1950, Roald Dahl wrote a short story titled Poison. The tale, set in colonial India and often found in deckle-edged children’s anthologies, tells a riveting...
Greenhouse growers have long grappled with the challenge of plant diseases and pests, which account for up to 40 percent of crop losses. Now, a new...
Japanese scientists have found between 6.7 and 13.9 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested. Researchers in Japan have confirmed that microplastics are...
Dark powder, sand-sized particles found as lid opened on Osiris-REx space probe which collected samples from asteroid. Scientists at the United States space agency NASA found...
Al Jazeera visualises the most popular global search terms as the world’s top search engine turns 25. Google turns 25 on Monday. The world’s most popular...
EXPLAINER Some 7,000 Reddit communities, totalling hundreds of millions of subscribers, are protesting against new API pricing changes that could kill off third-party apps. From June...
Scientists have discovered a “lost world” of ancient organisms in billion-year-old rocks from northern Australia that they say could change the world’s understanding of humans’ earliest...
Shelters in the US territory are beginning to fill in anticipation of a powerful storm named Typhoon Mawar. Authorities on the island of Guam have warned...
The contract is a milestone for Bezos’s space company after it lost a previous lunar-landing bid to competitor SpaceX. The United States federal space agency NASA...