Australian scientists have created the world's thinnest camera lens, in a breakthrough set to result in mass advancements in medicine and nanotechnology. The lens, developed at the Australian National University in Canberra, is just 6.3 nanometers thick, eight times thinner than the previous record holder, which was 50 nanometers thick.
For the US Coast Guard at least, Bigfoot is real - and is proudly on display in Key West, Florida, on the southernmost tip of the United States.
A mother trapped by a fire in her Sydney apartment safely dropped her 2-day-old baby and 2 year-old toddler from a second-floor window to rescuers, officials said on Friday.
Prosecutors have filed charges against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a money laundering investigation, putting further scrutiny on one of Brazil's towering political figures who is being hounded by corruption allegations.
Migrants hoping to trek from Greece toward northern Europe found their path blocked on Wednesday after a string of western Balkan nations shut their borders, exacerbating a dire humanitarian situation on the Macedonian frontier.
Tens of thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of militants who joined the Islamic State group have been given to Sky News, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.
A Google-developed supercomputer bested a South Korean Go grandmaster for the second time on Thursday, taking a commanding 2-0 lead in a five-game series that has become a stunning global debut for a new style of "intuitive" artificial intelligence.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said on Thursday that the country's recent missile launch does not violate a United Nations resolution.
Every two years or so, computer speed and memory capacity doubles - a head-spinning pace that experts say could see machines become smarter than humans within decades.
Matrix co-director Andy Wachowski came out on Tuesday as transgender, giving her new name as Lilly, two years after directing partner and sister Lana made the same announcement.
People gazed at the sky in wonder and cheered while others knelt in prayer as a total eclipse of the sun unfolded over Indonesia on Wednesday, briefly plunging cities into darkness and startling wildlife.
A website created by two young Jordanians in a coffee shop six years ago has become the most popular site in Arabic, highlighting a vast vacuum: less than 1 percent of the Internet is written in the language spoken by 4.5 percent of the world's population.
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