Himanshu Goenka

The price of Brent crude fell almost by 3 percent between Wednesday and Friday, after Russia and OPEC signalled they were considering increasing output following several months of tightening supply.

Elon Musk has warned artificial intelligence, if unregulated, will eventually become an existentialist threat to humanity, and his opinion has both famous supporters, like Stephen Hawking, and dissenters.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was speaking Friday evening at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles, where he gave details about what his space exploration company Blue Origin was up to.

Apple had sued Samsung in 2011 for copying the iPhone’s appearance, and the latest verdict by a jury Thursday directed the South Korean company to pay $539 million as settlement.

When an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs — the event is called the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction — the only birds to survive were those living on the ground.

The latest prediction by a team of scientists from China paints a dire picture for Earth’s climate, a far cry from the Paris Agreement’s aim to limit temperature rise to under 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.

The potential move to merge with Standard Chartered could be a way for Barclays to thwart possible demands from an activist investor to return capital to shareholders, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

A new paper called for more research to investigate the link, if any, between incidence of cancer among wild animals and the probability of human activity being a cause for the disease.

The deadly virus is transmitted to humans primarily from animals — in this case, from fruit bats, who seem to be its natural hosts — and has no vaccination yet for either humans or animals.

China finished trials of its first domestically built aircraft carrier Friday. On Thursday, the Asian powerhouse also launched its first rocket developed by a private company, OneSpace Technology.

The Jeff Bezos company already has a presence in Israel, but products made in the country are not currently available on the Amazon platform for Israelis to buy.

The rarely observed form of light emissions as lasers from space was seen in infrared wavelengths, coming from the well-known Ant Nebula, or Mz 3, a planetary nebula about 8,000 light-years away.

The first-ever measurement of pressure distribution inside protons showed quarks — the particles that make up a proton — were subjected to pressure about 10 times greater than at the center of neutron stars.

The discovery was based on the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of radio telescopes finding traces of the oldest and most-distant oxygen known in the universe.

Even by the end of 2018, bitcoin transactions and mining could consume as much as 0.5 percent of the world’s electricity consumption, as much as the entire country of Austria, according to latest research.

The link between the price of crude oil and the dollar could be affected after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, while European countries are working with Iran to save the deal from collapsing.

The idea to put lasers on the International Space Station is not new, but the technology to make it practically viable is only just coming into its own.

North Korea issued a statement Wednesday in which it named National Security Advisor John Bolton and his “Libya model” as factors that could make it reconsider the upcoming summit with President Donald Trump.

All three species of orangutans are listed as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Habitat loss caused by farming and logging have been usually blamed, but wildfires are another factor.

Researchers put claims of meditation and pranayama practitioners to test, looking for a neurophysiological basis to them, and found breathing exercises have a positive correlation with the ability to focus.

Active users of Twitter shared rumors and unverified information rapidly during two disasters, and very few bothered to correct the misinformation even after being proven wrong, a study of their tweets found.

A new model suggests even if there is a multiverse, in which some universes have a lot more of the mysterious dark energy than in our universe, stars and planets would still form there, and so could life.

The discovery of the X-ray pulsar in the binary system was made using NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission, which was installed on the International Space Station in June 2017.

The Red Fleet State Park in Utah has fossil dinosaur trackways that are as much as 200 million years old. Tourists have been mistaking some of them for regular rocks and dislodging them.

Elon Musk announced Thursday his tunneling and hyperloop-transport venture, the Boring Company, had also started work on a tunnel connecting Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Many large whales today use baleen and filter-feeding to consume huge amounts of tiny organisms from seawater, but their ancestors had well-developed teeth and were likely ferocious predators.

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found evidence for thousands of black holes within three light-years of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center.

In the last one week, two claims — one about a UFO on Mars and another about an alien spacecraft inside a lightning bolt here on Earth — have been doing the rounds of the internet.

NASA is researching technology to enable Urban Air Mobility, or the use of air transport safely and efficiently to carry both goods and people over areas smaller than those served by flights currently.