Science

Russia, ASEAN agree to work together to preserve cultural heritage

Russia and ASEAN countries agreed to encourage interdisciplinary cooperation among cultural experts, researchers and scholars, as well as their pursuit of progress in research activities

Scientists discover world’s largest whale graveyard deep beneath the Indian Ocean

Here are 5 wild stats from SpaceX's first week on the Nasdaq

SpaceX's first few days of trading have been filled with superlatives, from trading volume to the size of the company's first acquisition.

Fortinet firewalls hit by huge password-stealing attack — around 75,000 users possibly affected

Researchers discovered a major database containing plaintext passwords.

The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The search for dark matter has been blown wide open For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly…

Vietnam enlists US researchers to find mass graves from war

Ho Chi Minh City is working with researchers from Texas Tech University to find seven suspected mass graves from the war, using captured documents once taken from the dead.

NASA picked Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space to fly to Mars. It has never reached orbit.

NASA is partnering with Relativity Space, the rocket company run by former Google chief Eric Schmidt, to fly a science mission to Mars. Announced on June 17, the mission is called Aeolus, the first flight in Relativity’s new Interplanetary…

MIT built a memory system that lets robots remember where you left your keys

Robots are still surprisingly bad at remembering where things are. You might recall that your keys were on the kitchen counter last night. A robot working beside you would struggle to connect that object and location in a useful way. MIT…

Wildfire in Spain disrupts Madrid-Barcelona rail service as heatwave looms

MADRID, June 18 - The high-speed rail service between Spain's Madrid and Barcelona was disrupted on Thursday after a wildfire broke out near a section in Catalonia, rail operator Adif said.

Attackers cracked 75,000 Fortinet firewalls with old passwords, not a zero-day

Security researchers have uncovered a sprawling cache of stolen credentials for Fortinet firewalls, exposing login details for tens of thousands of organisations around the world. The dataset, dubbed “FortiBleed,” contains plaintext…

Here are the odds of SpaceX becoming the world's most valuable company

SpaceX debuted as the fifth-biggest stock. The path to third place could take years, at least according to options prices.

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joins the SpaceX board, days after the record IPO

SpaceX has named its first new board member since going public, and the word doing the heavy lifting in the announcement is “independent.” In a filing on June 17, the company said its board had elected Roelof Botha, the former Sequoia…