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Dubai's airport, the world's busiest for international travel is rolling out another addition from the realm of science fiction -- an iris-scanner that verifies one's identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when entering or leaving the country.

Dutch cress grower Rob Baan has enlisted high-tech helpers to tackle a pest in his greenhouses: palm-sized drones seek and destroy moths that produce caterpillars that can chew up his crops.

The Biden administration is increasingly sounding the alarm over a series of newly discovered cyber intrusions that Microsoft said this week were linked to China.

Dutch cress grower Rob Baan has enlisted high-tech helpers to tackle a pest in his greenhouses: palm-sized drones seek and destroy moths that produce caterpillars that can chew up his crops.

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey is selling his first tweet at auction, with bidding Saturday reaching US$2 million in a sign of the appetite for virtual objects authenticated through blockchain technology.

The biggest and fastest-known asteroid of 2021 is expected to make a flyby of Earth later this month.

Digital assets known as 'non-fungible tokens' are the newest craze in the art world, with pieces like animated memes and digital paintings selling for millions online. 2

Hurricanes are a common occurrence on Earth, they wreak havoc across oceans seasonally, and now they may cause chaos in the skies too.

The Mars rover Perseverance has successfully conducted its first test drive on the Red Planet, the U.S. space agency NASA said Friday.

Experts have confirmed that the black-browed babbler has been identified in the Borneo rainforest in Indonesia after approximately 170 years when the last sighting of the rare bird was reported.

Cancer should be a near certainty for whales, the longest-living and largest mammals there are -- but scientists are finding that cetaceans are excellent at protecting themselves against the deadly disease.

The elusive northern lights have suddenly become easier to see in southern parts of Canada's prairies thanks to what experts are saying is an increase in solar activity. 3

In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost US$67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million. 2