Science & Technology

FRANCE: More than one in two people in the UK, Germany and the US believe there is intelligent life out...

WASHINGTON: It looks like a rubber ducky hurtling through space, but is actually an oddly-formed comet. Researchers have determined a...

HONG KONG: Photos of lunar eclipse — they were all over the news and all over our Facebook news feeds....

CANADA: D-Wave Systems Inc., the world’s first quantum computing company, announced that it has entered into a new agreement covering...

CANADA: Stargazers across the globe were served a space extravaganza last night in the form of the blood moon lunar...

MALI: Two-million-year-old fossils including the three tiny bones of the middle ear are helping scientists figure out the auditory abilities...

BANGALORE - India successfully launched Monday its first high-tech telescopes into space to study the stars, as New Delhi seeks...

LONDON: Scientists on Monday announced "the strongest evidence yet" of liquid water on Mars, raising the distant prospect of microscopic...

KARACHI: Microsoft Corp. began the worldwide release of Office 2016. The apps are the latest addition to Office 365, Microsoft’s...

WASHINGTON: A team of scientists has come up with a new theory that may identify why dark matter has evaded...

WASHINGTON: Fossils of galaxies have revealed the formation and evolution of massive galaxies. An international team led by researchers at...

LONDON: Blossoming like a giant cosmic rose, Messier 17 is a stellar factory where new stars are born. The nebula,...

HONG KONG: There is growing speculation that NASA may be about to announce it has discovered liquid water on Mars...

NEW DELHI: It will be used to study black holes and analyse how stars and galaxies are actually born and...

LONDON: Researchers have unearthed a 9,000-year-old case of human decapitation in an archaeological site in Brazil. The researchers believe this...

LONDON: Scientists have long been fascinated by the halo surrounding comets and the long tail of gas and dust particles...

LONDON: As the sun comes up over the UK, a once in a generation event comes to an end. We...

BRENT: Being a winemaker is a specialised calling, requiring intimate knowledge of soil composition, seasons and weather, chemistry, flavour, even...

FRANCE: The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of...

PEARTH: A new type of venomous death adder has been discovered in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The snake,...