‘Pak-Turk-Kazakh Youth Forum on Biotech’ to be held in Sept

ISLAMABAD, May 15 (APP):Three-day `Pakistan-Turkey-Kazakhstan Youth Forum on Biotechnology’ will be arranged in the month of September with emphasis on increasing the share of Muslim countries in biotechnology global market. The forum, to be held from September 13-15, is being sponsored by COMSTECH-the OIC Standing […]

Pakistan should take advantage of Chinese expertise in science, technology

ISLAMABAD, May 14 (APP): Former Ambassador of Pakistan to China Masood Khalid has said Pakistan should take advantage of Chinese expertise in science and technology to be on track with a knowledge economy. Addressing the seminar titled “71 years of Pak-China friendship” held in Islamabad, […]

NASA, Boeing to launch uncrewed test flight to space station

LOS ANGELES, May 14 (Xinhua/APP) –: NASA and Boeing are targeting next Thursday, May 19, to launch Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station (ISS). Scheduled to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT, OFT-2 is the second uncrewed flight for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner […]

The 1997 chess game that thrust AI into the spotlight

Paris, May 12 (AFP/APP): With his hand pushed firmly into his cheek and his eyes fixed on the table, Garry Kasparov shot a final dark glance at the chessboard before storming out of the room: the king of chess had just been beaten by a […]

Elon Musk says he would lift Twitter ban on Trump

San Francisco, May 11 (AFP/APP): Elon Musk on said Tuesday that as owner of Twitter he would lift the ban on Donald Trump, contending that kicking the former US president off the platform “alienated a large part of the country.” Musk’s endorsement of a Trump […]

Companies envision taxis flying above jammed traffic

San Francisco, May 8 (AFP/APP): As urban traffic gets more miserable, entrepreneurs are looking to a future in which commuters hop into “air taxis” that whisk them over clogged roads. Companies such as Archer, Joby and Wisk are working on electric-powered aircraft that take off […]

Country future depends on IT sector: Senator Afnan

ISLAMABAD, May 1 (APP): Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Senator Afnan Ullah Khan on Sunday said that we should have to eqip our new generation with the latest Information technology as future of our country depends on Information Technology (IT) sector. “It was the need of […]

Australian researchers use robot to encourage vaccination

SYDNEY, April 30 (Xinhua/APP):Researchers from James Cook University (JCU) have released a study which saw a small, interactable robot taken to a Queensland hospital to help encourage the take up of vaccinations. The study published in the Inquiry Health journal and released to the public […]