Washington, United States (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - The satellite image posted by an Iranian news outlet looked real: a devastated US base in Qatar. But it was an AI-generated fake, underscoring the accelerating threat of tech-enabled disinformation during wartime.
Paris, France Mar 9, 2026 - Antarctic sea ice coverage has likely rebounded this year, coming closer to its annual summer average after four years of extreme lows, US scientists said Monday.
New York (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Oil prices surged above $100 a barrel for the first time in nearly four years on Sunday over worries that the spiralling Middle East war could create prolonged supply disruptions.
The Hague (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Russian hackers have targeted messaging apps used by Dutch officials, intelligence services in the Netherlands said on Monday, part of what they described as a 'large-scale global cyber campaign.'
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 - Three years ago, the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino detector in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the passage of an ultra-energetic cosmic neutrino, the most energetic neutrino ever detected, with an energy of a
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 - A team from the Institute of Materials Science of Seville, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council and the University of Seville, has developed a hybrid energy harvesting device that
Paris, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Here are the latest events in the Middle East war on Monday:
Paris, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - The war in the Middle East is unlikely to trigger a collapse of the world economy on the scale of the 2008 global financial crisis, Nobel prize-winning economist Philippe Aghion said Monday.
Washington, United States (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Anthropic filed suit Monday against the Trump administration, alleging the US government retaliated against the AI company for refusing to let its Claude AI model be used for autonomous lethal warfare and mass surveillance of Americans.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 30. 2026 - Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have demonstrated a fully solvent free route to high performance perovskite solar cells using an all vacuum deposition process that
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 - Microplastics are now recognized as a growing threat to farmland as well as oceans and rivers, with new research highlighting how plastic particles in soil host intricate interactions between microb
Paris, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but they have appeared in the war in the Middle East with strikes on desalination plants - critical infrastructure for millions of people in the arid region.
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - Japan will deploy a batch of long-range, counter-strike missiles in a southwest region near China by the end of March, officials said Monday.
Penjwen, Iraq (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - From their hideouts in the Iraqi mountains near Iran, leftist Kurdish rebels say they are ready to fight the Islamic republic, but hope for an uprising before they intervene, with or without US support.
Paris, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 - With the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali as Iran's supreme leader, the country's ultraconservatives have defied the United States and Israel and signalled their intent to keep the war going, experts told AFP.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 - Crystalline silicon solar cells dominate the global photovoltaic industry, and tunnel oxide passivating contact (TOPCon) architectures are rapidly gaining market share because they offer strong perf
