Science & Technology

WASHINGTON: Researchers have discovered at Gale Crater in Mars an area that has an anomaly with very high lelevels of...

PARIS: The world's deserts may be storing some of the climate-changing carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, according to a...

NEW YORK: Plants can't feel pain or hunger like animals, but their cells can communicate stress in a way that's...

BEIJING: China's new radio telescope, stated as the world's largest could become Earth's "big sensitive ear" to listen to subtle...

LONDON: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft continues to investigate the dwarf planet Ceres, particularly those bright spots it found on the earlier...

LONDON: Freakishly hot, dry weather in the Pacific Northwest is killing millions of fish in the overheated waters of the...

BRENT: Pulsars are rapidly rotating compact remnants born in the explosions of massive stars. They can be observed through their...

EUROPE: Geoff Marcy remembers the hair standing up on the back of his neck. Paul Butler remembers being dead tired....

HONG KONG: What if I told you that recent experiments have revealed a revolutionary new method of propulsion that threatens...

LONDON: When it comes to vaccinating their babies, bees don't have a choice—they naturally immunize their offspring against specific diseases...

MEXICO: Scientists with the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission may have had a scare when the Philae lander bounced off...

LONDON: After more than three centuries of invention of pendulum clocks, scientists have finally solved the mystery behind pendulums. There...

MEXICO: Researchers have suggested through a new study that globular clusters – spherical collections of up to a million densely...

HONG KONG: The beautiful ‘northern lights’-like aurora is not limited to the solar system – in fact it is not...

MEXICO: A new study has debunked the generally held notion that forests and other vegetation can quickly recover from extreme...

NEW YORK: Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has a history of creating tiny, insect-inspired robots, and its latest...

WASHINGTON: According to estimates put forward by a new study, Earth’s magnetic field is at least four billion years and...

HONG KONG: Taking a cue from butterflies scientists have suggested that these humble insects could hold the key to developing...

FRANCE: Water striders are probably one of the most fascinating insects for their ability to ‘walk’ on water and taking...

NEW YORK: The latest discovery comes only a week after Nasa announced that its Kepler spacecraft had found the "closest...