Science & Technology

PARIS: The international climate deal agreed in Paris has “failed to include meaningful mechanisms” to guarantee financial support for poorer...

WASHINGTON: The local atmosphere in Mars is clear in winter, dustier in spring and summer, and windy in autumn, show...

WASHINGTON: Finding a cure for viruses like Ebola, Zika, or even the flu is a challenging task. Viruses are vastly...

WASHINGTON:  Red knots, a migrating bird species able to fly about 5,000 kilometers non-stop, are becoming smaller as temperatures warm...

NEW YORK: In a universe full of planets, 2007 OR10 is something special. It’s big, just slightly smaller than the...

CALIFORNIA: Electronic Arts held its earnings call for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2016 yesterday, and shared its...

LONDON: Boeing just fell behind SpaceX in the race to be the first private company to carry U.S. astronauts to...

Today, in the desert outside Las Vegas, a start-up called Hyperloop One performed the world's first full-scale test of hyperloop...

SAN FRANCISCO:  Researchers at two U.S. universities have found that a four-planet system observed several years ago by the Kepler...

LONDON: Each year, more than 3,000 tonnes of space dust fails to burn up in our planet’s atmosphere and falls...

IDAHO: Micron is a step or two ahead of where it thought it would be at this point. Back in...

WASHINGTON: This week astronomers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope announced that the planet-hunting spacecraft had increased its catalogue by an...

LONDON: Modern civilization has not been kind to the world's flora. More than 20 percent of the plants known to...

GUIYANG: China has almost finished building the world’s largest radio telescope (FAST) and will soon start the test operation phase...

CAPE CANAVERAL: For the first time in 10 years, Mercury passed directly between the earth and sun on Monday, resembling...

LONDON: Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion, a discovery thought to be the first...

SEOUL: There's allegedly more to that newly leaked all-metal Moto X 2016 design than we first thought, and it's good...

CALIFORNIA: Chipmaker announces the GTX 1080, which replaces the company's previous top-of-the-line cared with more performance. Tonight during a special...

NANCHANG: Archaeologists are using bones unearthed from the 2,000-year-old tomb of Haihunhou, the Marquis of Haihun, to conduct DNA analysis....

LONDON: SpaceX landed a rocket on a robotic ocean barge on Friday, the second marine landing for the private aerospace...