Science &amp; Technology

HONG KONG: A long term study conducted by managers of The Park Grass experiment at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK,...

Scientists create touchable holograms

TOKYO: Leave it to the Japanese to take technology up a notch: their scientists have recently created touchable holograms, or...

Earth’s early Ecosystem more complex, scientists

CANADA: Analysis of a 555-million-year-old fossil of an extinct organism has revealed that the first large, complex creatures that roamed...

Stunning photos of Mount Etna eruption

CANADA: The eruption began with a fountain of lava stretching one kilometre in the sky, then an ash plume reaching...

Solar superflare could destroy our electricity supply

EUROPE: A solar superflare, which is thousands of times more powerful and devastating than normal flares from the Sun, could...

Brains of men, women are wired completely different, study conduct

MEXICO: Your brain is not male or female. It’s a unique mosaic of features. Some of them are more common...

Mount Everest glacial lakes expand due to Nepal’s previous earthquake, researchers

MALI: In an effort to assess the impacts of Nepal’s April 2015 earthquake to Mount Everest’s glaciers, researchers from the...

Fast radio burst sheds light on origin of these extreme events

CANADA: Scientists are likely closer to knowing the origins of short blasts of cosmic radio waves that have baffled them...

Researcher able to come up with 3D simulations of jet streams, storms on Jupiter , Saturn

FRANCE: A researcher from University of Alberta in Canada was able to come up with 3D simulations of jet streams...

Scientists create material that have potential to clean up oil spills

WASHINGTON: Call it a super sponge or a magic product – scientists from Deakin University in Australia have created a...

Scientists develop new form of carbon that can make diamonds at room temperature

MEXICO: The complicated process with which diamonds are formed from carbon deposits buried deep within the earth makes these gemstones...

Scientists found eight fossilized peach pits from China

BEIJING: A team of scientists found eight fossilized peach pits or endocarps in the southwestern part of China, with the...

Researchers discover dinosaur footprints in Scotland

LONDON: A team of researchers were able to discover a collection of dinosaur footprints in Scotland, revealing information regarding the...

90m years old snake skull exposed in Argentina

CANADA: A 90-million-year-old snake skull discovered in Argentina shed light on how snakes lost their legs. The widespread belief is...

Brains of men, women are wired completely different, study

HONG KONG: Most brains have a mixture of 'male' and 'female' traits, research by scientists at Tel Aviv university finds...

Scientists discovered rare fossil of horned dinosaur

LONDON: Scientists have uncovered the rare fossil of a dog-sized horned dinosaur in eastern North America that roamed the Earth...

Astronomers discover most distant object in solar system

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a miniature planet that is the most distant body ever found in...

Dinosaur footprints reveal giant creatures once roamed Scotland

LONDON: The Isle of Skye sauropods were relatively primitive, perhaps “an early cousin or ancestor of the famous ones like...

Almost half of world’s primates on brink of extinction

SINGAPORE: More than half the world´s primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are facing extinction, international experts warned Tuesday, as...

Most species at risk due to climate change