Science & Technology

NEW YORK: In 2008, scientists noticed the icy bottoms of lake on Greenland’s Ice Sheet occasionally crack open, releasing the...

EDINBURGH: A budding gold panner who found a £10,000 nugget in a Scottish river has told how he almost threw...

MEXICO: From June 7 to June 21, the rovers trekking across Martian soil won't hear from their controllers back on...

SYDNEY: Archaeologists have found a unique 2000-year-old pearl in the Kimberley's Admiralty Gulf in Western Australia. The value of a...

LONDON: Scientists now know that our DNA is being altered all the time by environment, lifestyle and traumatic events Genetic...

ROME: The European Space Agency (ESA) has whittled down the list of projects it is considering for deployment in the...

NEW YORK: Exploring the murky depths of the Puerto Rican sea, scientists from around the world have found many previously...

LONDON: Evidence of a gold trading route between the south-west of the UK and Ireland dating back to the early...

LONDON: A team of researchers has designed the most precise quantum thermometer to date. Researchers from the UAB and the...

NEW YORK: An artificial intelligence system has for the first time reverse-engineered the regeneration mechanism of planaria--the small worms whose...

TOKYO: Japanese engineers have come up with a robot that can copy the moves of a samurai sword master and...

NEW YORK: NASA is celebrating 50 years of spacewalks with a new documentary, "Suit Up." The space agency is celebrating...

SYDNEY: Incidents in the U.S. and UK involving the discovery of black widow spiders among a bunch of grapes bought...

LONDON: Yahoo says it plans to shut down its Yahoo Maps service. The decision to shut down its maps site...

MUMBAI: Sony will introduce its Android-powered television range in India in the second week of June. Apart from the high-end...

TOKYO: AMD will introduce its premier range of HBM equipped graphics cards less than a fortnight from now. The launch...

LONDON: Research firm IDC says the global wearable devices market recorded its eighth straight quarter of steady growth with shipments...

TOKYO: Popcorn Buzz app allows Android users to engage in a free group call that includes up to 200 people...

NEW DELHI: Blackberry launches the Leap priced at Rs 21,490. The third touch-based device from the erstwhile RIM's stable is...

LONDON: The decision to make Skype available for web browsers is a smart move that is sure to impress the...