Science & Technology

WASHINGTON: Well at 2359 Greenwich Mean Time on June 30, or 9.59am AEST on July 1, the world will experience...

EUROPE: British scientists searching for evidence of Norse colonisation in the communities of the Cotentin peninsula warn of ‘sensitivities’ over...

BRENT: Cigarette smoking is responsible for at least 345,962 cancer deaths in the U.S. each year, according to a new...

WASHINGTON: The quest for the better light bulb has taken yet another leap. This time, nanotechnology derives light from atom-thin...

CANADA: Faced with a rapidly changing habitat, polar bears are adapting with a new entrée: For the first time, a...

MEXICO: Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, can be used to create beautiful birds, frogs and other small sculptures....

HONG KONG: IN A quest to see if people could survive living on Mars, NASA sent six scientists to Hawaii...

LONDON: Scientists have always believed that the process white blood cells undergo when they break down is random. However, a...

NEW YORK: Google's spreadsheet application Sheets has been updated to make handling big data sets more manageable for power users....

That time to develop patience and practice abstinence is right around the corner. Although one is expected to practice patience...

LONDON: Ever since Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet, the cosmic equivalent of junk bond status, the solar system’s former...

PERTH: The crew stepped outside the dome 8,000ft up the slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, to feel fresh air on...

EUROPE: A recent study on Saturn and its rings reveals that one of its rings called phobe ring is larger...

CANADA: Mount Sinabung in Karo regency, North Sumatra, erupted again on Sunday, spewing hot clouds to the south and southeast...

HONG KONG: Many possible uses for the one-atom-thick "wonder material" known as graphene, creating something so necessarily visible as a...

MEXICO: Most galaxies are clumped together in groups or clusters, with a neighbouring galaxy never far away. But NGC 6503's...

BRENT: An analysis has shown the presence of tectonic plates inside the moon's surface whose movement causes earthquake similar to...

CANADA: Carmarthenshire council said the warm weather sparked a boom of the creatures on Cefn Sidan beach. Numbers have grown...

EALING: Many of you might recall that quite a few months back the European Space Agency sent a lander on...

HONG KONG: Scientists have created the world’s smallest light bulb from a one atom-thick layer of graphene, the miracle material...