Science & Technology

WASHINGTON: Archaeologists have uncovered human remains of some of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America,...

LONDON: Mimicking the v-shaped posture adopted by a butterfly species to heat up its flight muscles before take-off, the amount...

LONDON: Scientists have successfully altered the neural networks of laboratory mice using a wireless controller; allowing them to study the...

CANADA: The Comet 67P/Churyumov¬-Gerasimenko packs some of the key building blocks of life including some that play a key role...

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

EUROPE: If you've had a good night's sleep, you are mentally more alert and your memory works more reliably. During...

BRENT: Starvation early in life can alter an organism for generations to come, according to a new study in roundworms....

HONG KONG: The results of laboratory experiments involving Vitamin B3 by a team of NASA researchers support a theory that...

PARIS: “It’s very hard not to call an object with this level of complexity in its geology, and such complex...

LONDON: Many hormones and neurotransmitters work by binding to receptors on a cell's exterior surface. This activates receptors causing them...

MALI: Space travel is a constant exercise in forward planning, with mission control thinking years and sometimes decades in advance....

FRANCE: An international team of researches has found an example of a nitrite oxidizing organism that can convert cyanate into...

LONDON: IT IS being hailed as an “exciting” new discovery that will help to unlock more secrets of the universe....

NEW YORK: An aurora has been spotted outside our Solar System for the first time, scientists report. An international team...

WASHINGTON: A dying star's final moments are captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The death throes...

CANADA: NASA scientists have used two giant, Earth-based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off a passing asteroid and produce...

CANADA: In a finding that shows that brown dwarfs, often referred to as failed stars, have more in common with...

PARIS: NASA has captured images of a peanut-shaped asteroid as it made its closest approach to Earth last weekend.About 4.6...

NEW YORK: Nearly a third of the stars in our own galaxy have dramatically changed their orbits. This is according...

LONDON: The warm weather and balmy evenings have caused flying ants to swarm across the country. The creatures have been...