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Nobel Prize for Physics goes to US, Canadian scientists 02 Oct 2018 - 05:59 pm
COMBO: (L) Arthur Ashkin, poses in his home in Rumson, New Jersey, U.S., October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid | (R) Donna Strickland,  at her home in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Power
James Allison, Tasuku Honjo win Nobel for key discoveries in fighting cancer 01 Oct 2018 - 06:34 pm
The Nobel Prize laureates for Medicine or Physiology 2018 are James P. Allison, US and Tasuku Honjo, Japan presented at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden October 1, 2018. TT News Agency/Fredrik Sandberg via Reuters
Armed with award-winning app, Kenyan tribe fights forced evictions 01 Oct 2018 - 05:54 pm
ARCHIVE PHOTO: People from the Sengwer community protest over their eviction from their ancestral lands, Embobut Forest, by the government for forest conservation in western Kenya, April 19, 2016. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Katy Migiro
What comes next in Facebook's major data breach 29 Sep 2018 - 07:03 pm
FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Russell Boyce
Facebook says security breach affected about 50 million accounts 28 Sep 2018 - 08:15 pm
A Facebook sign is seen during the China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference in Shanghai, August 3, 2018. Reuters/Aly Song
No kidding: goats prefer happy faces 27 Sep 2018 - 10:45 am
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When your Apple Watch wakes you up in the middle of the night 26 Sep 2018 - 07:46 pm
Apple Inc chief operating officer Jeff Williams speaks during an Apple event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino. (Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images/ AFP)
With genetic tweak, mosquito population made extinct 26 Sep 2018 - 07:09 pm
Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen at the Laboratory of Entomology and Ecology of the Dengue Branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 6, 2016. Reuters/Alvin Baez
Japan firm signs with SpaceX for lunar missions 26 Sep 2018 - 12:04 pm
Takeshi Hakamada, CEO of Japanese firm ispace, holds a press conference to explain about the ipsace lunar lander and rover of its lunar programme HAKUTO-R in Tokyo on September 26, 2018. AFP / Natsuko Fukue
Instagram founders depart Facebook after clashes with Zuckerberg 25 Sep 2018 - 05:06 pm
A photo shows silhouttes of men in front of the logo of 'Instagram' social media platform in Ankara, Turkey on September 25, 2018. ( Aytaç Ünal - Anadolu Agency )
Japan preschools using tablets to prep tots for digital age 25 Sep 2018 - 11:42 am
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Instagram co-founders resign from Facebook-owned company 25 Sep 2018 - 09:10 am
FILE PHOTO: Instagram founders Mike Krieger (L) and Kevin Systrom attend the 16th annual Webby Awards in New York May, 21 2012. REUTERS/Stephen Chernin/File photo
Loss of bird species hampers forecasting for Zimbabwe's farmers 24 Sep 2018 - 07:30 pm
Picture of a Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri, taken in Kruger National Park. (Wikimedia Commons/ Kore / CC BY-SA 3.0)
Instagram not planning 'Regramming' feature anytime soon 24 Sep 2018 - 02:08 pm
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Is $1,100 too much for an iPhone? Get an older one for less 21 Sep 2018 - 07:41 pm
A customer compares the sizes of the latest iPhones at an Apple store in Sydney on September 21, 2018. AFP / Saeed Khan
Amazon unveils new $50 Echo Dot with better quality speaker 20 Sep 2018 - 10:00 pm
A shipment moves on a conveyor belt at an Amazon Fulfillment Centre (BLR7) on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, September 18, 2018. Reuters/ Abhishek N Chinnappa
'Catastrophic' floods rising on Amazon River, say scientists 20 Sep 2018 - 09:02 pm
Residents paddle their canoe in a street flooded by the rising Rio Solimoes, one of the two main branches of Amazon River, in Anama, Amazonas state, Brazil on May 28, 2015. Bruno Kelly/Reuters
Indonesia's 'Paris of Java' on high-tech mission to cut emissions 20 Sep 2018 - 08:41 pm
An urban farmer at work in a sub-district of Bandung city, Indonesia, August 23, 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Michael Taylor