Science & Technology

NEW DELHI: Watch out, Xiaomi, Asus is playing close to your turf. The company's new tablets in its ZenPad series,...

NEW YORK: Lumia smartphones should get the phone-centric version in the next couple of months and it has been announced...

BEIJING: A total of 231 fossilised dinosaur eggs and skeletal remains were seized from a house in China's Guangdong province,...

LONDON: The first venomous frogs that use their heads as weapons to inject poison into potential predators have been discovered...

HONG KONG: Four-year project maps location of species, with Australian state of Queensland found to host the greatest number of...

CANADA: A ruthless breed of wasp has the ability to 'zombify' their spider prey, forcing the arachnids to build homes...

LONDON: This extraordinary picture released by NASA shows the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun as it...

EUROPE: In the wilds of Brazil, researchers have discovered frogs with venomous spikes on their heads. Although scientists have long...

WASHINGTON: Air conditioning units are designed for the body temperature and metabolism of men, which leaves most women feeling cold,...

FRANCE: What we perceive as the color yellow changes with the seasons, as our world goes from winter grays to...

LONDON: NASA's new Experience Curiosity website lets users view Mars through the eyes of the rover, using the window in...

FRANCE: Quite possibly the best meteor shower of the year the Perseids will be coming to a sky near you...

WASHINGTON: NASA has extended a contract with Russia’s space agency for $490 million to carry US astronauts to the International...

BRENT: Researchers say earthworms produce special compounds in their gut to counteract plant toxins created precisely to repel hungry herbivores...

NEW YORK: Besides some Martian meteorites collected on Earth, some gravity data from spacecraft and other bits of information, our...

MEXICO: More than a decade after its launch, the spacecraft Rosetta reached Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and as it approaches perihelion with...

LONDON: The planet-hunting Kepler will keep churning out new discoveries, Grunsfeld noted, and possibly find even better matches for “Earth...

CANADA: The toxin concentration of western Lake Erie water near Toledo’s water system intake crib fell back down to a...

MEXICO: A mysterious message has been found in an underground cave which turned out to house the remains of a...

HONG KONG: The world’s first ever ant map showing the distribution of the tiny industrious creatures around the globe has...