Science & Technology

HONG KONG: Using European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, researchers spotted juvenile stars hidden in the forest of thick dust clouds...

BEIJING: A student has discovered a 120 million-year-old fossil that belonged to an ancestor of the modern long-horned grasshopper, the...

LONDON: Apple has sold Apple Watches worth a minimum of $1.7bn (£1.1bn) in the first six months of the smart...

BEIJING: Chinese handset-maker OnePlus on Thursday launched a new affordable smartphone - OnePlus X - at a price of Rs....

MUMBAI: Just an odd couple of days after launching the flagship Droid Turbo 2 in the US, Motorola Mobility has...

WASHINGTON: A newly discovered piece of space junk aptly named 'WT1190F or WTF' will hit the Earth on November 13....

CANADA: The universe is a mysterious place — comprised of mostly dark matter and dark energy, neither of which scientists...

NEW YORK: A team of astronomers has discovered a previously unknown component of our home galaxy, the Milky Way --...

HONG KONG: The well-preserved partial skull and skeleton of a gibbon-like creature that lived 11.6 million years ago in Spain...

MALI: Lions, that symbol of Africa’s wild beauty, power and freedom, no longer roam in Mali. Or in Ivory Coast...

MEXICO: For the first time ever, scientists have detected oxygen on a comet, a discovery that could challenge theories about...

WASHINGTON: A 2,000-foot asteroid is expected to fly within 300,000 miles of Earth Saturday. That's pretty close. Did you know...

BRENT: Shipwrecks were the stuff of lore around the craggy coasts of Fourni, a Greek archipelago close to Turkey in...

BEIJING: China will begin work on the world’s largest super-collider in 2020, state-run media reported Thursday, in an attempt to...

EUROPE: Atlantic puffins, Slavonian grebes, pochards and European turtle doves join the “Red List” of the worldwide Union for Conservation...

MOSCOW: A group of Russian women embarked on an all-female mock moon mission on Wednesday, and officials say the experiment...

CANADA: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will set a new record for the longest single stretch of time spent in space...

LONDON: The tractor beam, a staple of science fiction including "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" that is employed to grab...

CANADA: Using European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, researchers spotted juvenile stars hidden in the forest of thick dust clouds in...

GENEVA: The UN’s weather and climate agency said on Thursday there was no cause for alarm about a record-size hole...