Science & Technology

PENZA: Russia on Monday successfully launched a Proton rocket, carrying a Russian telecoms satellite, from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...

HONG KONG: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has uncovered some pretty interesting details about the terrain of the planet. Some of...

EALING: New, high-resolution images of the surface of Pluto beamed from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal unparalleled geographical variety —...

EUROPE: Natural resources are under increasing threat from both human development and climate change, and environmental economists have struggled to...

HONG KONG: It turns out that whisky aged in space really does taste different to samples aged on earth. In...

BRENT: Scientists have found a fossil of a monkey in an underwater cave - and estimate it may have been...

BEIJING: China’s trailblazing space program aims to successfully execute the first landing on the far side of the moon. Tentatively...

LONDON: In popular lore they’re the most fearsome killers in the sea, but for decades sharks were playing the role...

PERTH: The 2000km-long chain, which started forming 33m years ago, runs along the country’s east from the Whitsundays in Queensland...

NEW YORK: The ancient, giant virus recently discovered in melting Arctic ice is not going to kill you. But here's...

FRANCE: Global temperature records continue to tumble, with August easily the hottest in 124 years of data, Japan's Meteorological Agency...

HONG KONG: Last Thursday, the world said hello to Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human discovered in South...

WASHINGTON: Entrepreneur and freaky genius, Elon Musk has made a formal request to launch 4,000 satellites into space, to bring...

FRANCE: An amazing view of the well-known galaxy Messier 63 has been produced by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The...

EUROPE: Astronomers have successfully peered through the 'amniotic sac' of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost...

PARIS: Archaeologists, who were originally assigned on a salmon-restoration mission, were able to unearth stone tools near Seattle that are...

CANADA: More than two years after a GoPro-fitted weather balloon was sent to the edge of space, the camera that...

CANADA: Scientists revealed Saturday the new, high resolution photos of Pluto taken from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The new images...

FRANCE: An amazing view of the well-known galaxy Messier 63 has been produced by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The...

FRANCE: Scientists have discovered the first massive binary star, epsilon Lupi, in which both stars have magnetic fields. A binary...