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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Blue Origin’s giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit for Jeff Bezos’ space company as it aims to rival SpaceX in the satellite launch business. Thirty stories tall with a reusable first stage, New Glenn launched…

BENGALURU — India became the world’s fourth nation on Thursday to achieve the feat of space docking, a technological milestone that underscores its ambitions to expand its share of a rapidly growing $400-billion global space market.  Target and Chaser, two satellites of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) that are each roughly the size of a…

Artificial-intelligence software is being used to re-create Moshe Nussbaum’s widely recognized, distinctive voice

Musk blames explosion on ‘oxygen/fuel leak’

The advisory is intended to prevent delays in identifying human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses amid high levels of seasonal influenza

The U.N. health agency estimates that health crises would leave 305 million people in need of urgent assistance in 2025

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed sheets

Millions unknowingly infected with human metapneumovirus, or HMPV

China says HMPV infections in the northern part of the country are declining. News of increased respiratory illnesses in China kindled global concerns about another potential pandemic. But, as VOA’s Dora Mekouar reports, medical experts say HMPV is nothing like COVID-19. VOA Mandarin contributed.

Neuralink isn’t the only company working on brain implants; many other companies and research groups are also working to link the nervous system to computers to help treat brain disorders and overcome brain injuries