Science

LONDON: Scientists created a "microscopic sonic screwdriver" composed of acoustic vortices that grip and spin microparticles suspended in water. The...

TOKYO: Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, wants to embrace a "Robot Revolution" not only to show the nation's skill in...

EALING: A beaver fossil from 28 million years ago was discovered in eastern Oregon. Researchers believe this ancient species was...

WASHINGTON: If honeybees are busy pollinating large, blooming croplands, farmers wanting to spray toxic pesticides will soon have to buzz...

BRENT: The LightSail spacecraft, designed and manufactured by The Planetary Society, has lost contact with Earth. The mission, designed to...

VANCOUVER: The Great Barrier Reef is not currently "in danger," according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization....

TOKYO: A volcano erupted on a remote Japanese island on Friday, blasting black smoke thousands of metres into the sky...

LONDON: The holes in Swiss cheese lend it a very distinctive appearance. But new analysis reveals that they’re not a...

NEW YORK: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) broke a world energy record. It's now smashing particles together with nearly twice as...

BEIJING: Chinese spacecraft may soon be allowed to dock with the International Space Station in what would signal an about-turn...

WASHINGTON: A research revealed on Thursday, within the journal Science, asserts that retrograde amnesia implies problem in reminiscence retrieval, fairly...

LONDON: There are far more charged particles beside busy roads than under high-voltage power lines, a world-first study has found....

DUBLIVE: A mechanical cheetah has been created by scientists; it is a robot that can both see and jump over...

HONG KONG: Because of the vastness of the universe, what we see on earth typically occurs on a galactic scale,...

MEXICO: In the past couple of months, we’ve posted quite a lot of articles about the New Horizons spacecraft zooming...

HONG KONG: The cause of those characteristic holes in Swiss cheese has finally been determined – and it only took...

HONG KONG: Robots can apparently adapt like animals, new research finds, a trait that could provide tremendous benefits to society...

LONDON: Even CSI agents would struggle to solve this murder – believed to be the first ever, it happened 430,000...

KARACHI: The National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Commissioner Office Karachi...

NEW YORK: Every year, scientists and researchers discover 18,000 new species. Nearly 2 million animal and plant species have already...