Science & Technology

MEXICO: The Veil Nebula is part of a supernova remnant called the Cygnus Loop, which was created by the titanic...

HARROW: The scientific community has remained baffled for years because of the origin of giraffe’s long, slender neck. They researched...

HONG KONG: Doomsday mongers were proven wrong when the predicted date of the world's end came and went without an...

NEW YORK: When director Roland Emmerich's disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow" came out in 2004, moviegoers were treated to...

EUROPE: Geneticists at the Salk Institute have found a new way to study brain cells in the elderly, and it...

CHICAGO: Cancer is much less common in elephants than in humans, even though the bodies of jumbos have many more...

MALI: Over 200 species were discovered by WWF (World Wide Funds) researchers in the Himalayas. Some of the newly discovered...

LONDON: The chief investigator of NASA's Pluto Exploration Programme has said that the biggest finding till date on the planet...

CANADA: Following the recent success of explorations on Mars, NASA has unveiled a comprehensive report on how the American space...

WASHINGTON: NASA has released its plan for establishing colonies on Mars within the next 25 years. Humans will be living...

NEW YORK: Fishes are better athlete than men and any other species living on the Earth due to better oxygen...

MIAMI: An ambitious project led by researchers in Switzerland to digitally map the brain released its first results, showing a...

LONDON: A new study of a 125-million-year-old wing of a primitive bird has revealed that some of the most ancient...

MEXICO: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto’s blue sky during the historic flyby of the icy dwarf planet in July....

LONDON: Pluto has blue skies and patches of red frozen water, NASA announced on Thursday as new images were transmitted...

BRENT: Space agency takes unusual step of issuing the all-clear amid fears that asteroid 8666 (2000 FL 10) was headed...

HONG KONG: In this column, staff writer J.E. Reich rounds up the most important and fascinating space news of the...

LONDON: The Americans space agency NASA said that it is presently studying the possibilities to send a manned mission into...

LONDON: British scientists have for the first time sequenced an ancient African genome from a 4,500-year-old Ethiopian skull that has...

EUROPE: Thousands of NASA's space mission photos, including every picture ever taken on the moon, have now been released in...