Science & Technology

HONG KONG: NASA has said that it plans to have humans living on Mars in the next few decades. Moving...

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

CANADA: Water from north of the crater regularly filled the basin, creating long-lasting lakes that could have been a haven...

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

LONDON: After confirming the existence of hydrogen on Mars in 2001 and now the presence of water, the National Aeronautic...

HONG KONG: NASA laid outs its most detailed technology pathway yet to eventually land humans on Mars, including plans for...

LONDON: The International Space Station (ISS) will once again be visible from the North West over the next few weeks....

CANADA: Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia. A comparison with genetic...

HONG KONG: Some 34 new plant and animal species have been discovered annually over the past six years in the...

LONDON: Three years after landing in a giant Martian crater, NASA's Curiosity rover has found what scientists call proof that...

LUSAKA: It was like a dazzling spacecraft, the scientist recalls.Beautifully striped, like an incandescent UFO gliding through the ocean floor,...

HARROW: Corals worldwide are at risk from a major episode of bleaching which turns reefs white, scientists have confirmed. The...

FRANCE: The giraffe is the world's tallest mammal. For years, the origin of its long, slender neck baffled the scientific...

MEXICO: The New Horizons spacecraft is the gift that keeps on giving: the probe recently transmitted more photos to Earth...

CANADA: Whether or not the world's earliest birds — as they evolved from dinosaurs — could fly or were still...

WASHINGTON: NASA has unveiled the first colour pictures of the haze that surrounds Pluto, along with pictures of patches of...

MEXICO: A 48-million-year-old horse predecessor, whose exceptionally well-preserved remains were discovered in Germany, still has its foetus and some soft...

EUROPE: Scientists have unravelled the secret to why elephants rarely get cancer despite their large size. Elephants have 38 additional...

LAHORE: Keeping its lead in computer technology, Microsoft Corp has launched new Surface Lumia and Microsoft Band devices, taking advantage...

LAHORE: One of the world’s biggest IT companies, Huawei, has launched the latest smartphone, Mate S, in Pakistan in a...