Science & Technology

WASHINGTON: Plans for an early-warning system that will give us a 24-hour window before solar storms affect the Earth have...

MEXICO: A teenager on work experience discovered a new planet 1000 light years away.Tom Wagg was 15 when he spotted...

LONDON: Mars is a small borough in Butler County that has a lot of fun with its name — a...

PARIS: Earlier this spring, as violence and chaos drove thousands of refugees onto rickety boats off Libya, with some drowning...

Missing MH370 flight may have nosedived into the ocean: Researchers The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been an...

EUROPE: Researchers at Stanford University have built a computer that runs on water.Manu Prakash and his team developed the computer...

NEW YORK: A team of scientists at London's Natural History Museum examined eight fossils from the museum's collection, and they...

WASHINGTON: For the first time, a spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected glass deposits inside craters on the red planet a...

were predominantly light-skinned and mostly lactose-intolerant. The findings, based on a rough analysis of genetic material extracted from the teeth...

FRANCE: The clearest photos yet of dwarf planet Ceres have been sent back by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, and the mysterious...

MUMBAI: According to the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), field biologists discovered 176 species of animals in India last year...

CANADA: A NASA astronaut is due to fly back to Earth from the International Space Station Thursday, but he had...

HONG KONG: The gigantic dinosaur known as Dreadnoughtus schrani -- believed to have been one of the heaviest land animals...

LONDON: Astronomers have imaged in unprecedented detail a distant galaxy near the edge of the universe and found that it...

FRANCE: The scientists at NASA including one of Indian-origin have developed a new tool that can predict solar geomagnetic storms...

HONG KONG: Saturn has the most magnificent set of rings of any planet in the Solar System. This network of...

MEXICO: Researchers in California say they've successfully converted sugarcane biomass into jet fuel in a process that can reduce greenhouse...

LONDON: A volcano in western Indonesia is now spewing large clouds of searing gas and ash high into the air,...

LONDON: The Hubble Space Telescope has captured detailed images of a solitary galaxy so far from any galactic neighbor it's...

CANDADA: The LightSail spacecraft has completed the primary objective of its first test flight: unfurling its solar sail. The vehicle...