Science & Technology

All the nations members of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted on Thursday a historical text that defines the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of AI.

Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University COVID continues to slow down in India. The festival season, which includes Durga Puja and Diwali where large groups of Indians gather, did not lead...

Climate activists, Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate have written an open letter to global media as The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP 26, started...

Tech ethicists and branding professionals on Thursday said consumers should not be hoodwinked by Facebook's name change, which numerous observers compared to earlier efforts by tobacco and fossil fuel companies...

"The field of space exploration is not limited to a gender or a country: it is open to everyone. After seeing me, I want women in our Arab world to be encouraged to enter this sector."

Matthew Daniel Eddy, Durham University James McCune Smith was the first African American to receive a medical doctorate from a university. Born in 1813 to a poor South Carolina runaway...

Countries and investors need to step up the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) to keep roads safe for everyone, three UN Special Envoys said on Thursday, leading a new AI for Road Safety initiative.

Ramon Rios, University of Southampton Benjamin List and David MacMillan, respectively from Germany and the US, will share the 10 million Swedish kronor (£870,000) Nobel prize in chemistry 2021 for...

Following whistleblower Frances Haugen's Sunday night allegation that Facebook's refusal to combat dangerous lies and hateful content on its platforms is driven by profit, social media experts denounced the corporation for embracing a business model that encourages violence and endangers democracy—and urged the federal government to take action.

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, all three apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure, have gone down in several parts for the world, users reported on Monday evening.

Coronavirus lockdowns brought rapid and “unprecedented” improvements in air quality in some parts of the globe - but not enough to halt climate change caused by global warming, UN weather experts said on Friday.

Of the 138,374 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for its survival watchlist more than 38,000 are now at risk of extinction, as the...