Science & Technology

NEW YORK: Biologists have made a new breakthrough and found a novel way of improving crops yields - thanks to...

WASHINGTON: A top boffin has warned that in the future, chances are that the world will be ruled by humans...

HONG KONG: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is this week expected to decide if Australia's Great...

MEXICO: A pure white sparrow- Albino was spotted at Sanctuary Lakes near Melbourne on Monday. A birdwatching expert and environmentalist,...

HONG KONG: SpaceX, an American rocket company, has made a successful test of its SpaceX emergency abort system, which would...

ABU DHABI: The UAE will establish the first Space Research Centre in the Middle East. The project costing Dh100 million...

HARROW: The Tara Oceans project is revealing new data on tiny ocean creatures and the critical roles they play in...

NEW YORK: When SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk recently said that with artificial intelligence we’re “summoning the demon,” he...

LONDON: Unable to reach a comparable geological contact farther south on Red Planet, NASA's Curiosity rover has now approached an...

ABU DHABI: The UAE has laid out a strategic framework for a newly created space agency that aims to integrate...

FRANCE: Once again Mother Nature has outdone herself, as the newest tweets from astronaut Terry W. Virts show. He captured...

MALI: Researchers from the University of Berkeley have built a new type of robot that can behave like a child...

CLIVE: A gray whale that washed up on the Sonoma Coast over the weekend was the eighth large marine mammal...

ELY: In photographs taken in the spectrum of visible light, the Sun’s magnetic field is invisible. But this image wasn’t...

WASHINGTON: Dogs' special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient...

CANADA: A volcano in the Galapagos Islands erupted for the first time in more than 30 years Monday, spilling streams...

TULA: The huge, bright-colored panther chameleon is a reptile species found in Madagascar. A new study of the creature's vibrant...

LONDON: A rare pollen will cause misery for allergy sufferers in the UK, experts have warned. Ragweed is spreading across...

NEW YORK: iPhone 4 and 4S users have been shortchanged in the past when upgrading to iOS 7 or iOS...

MEXICO: The federal government says it would be premature to take Japan back to court over the possible resumption of...