Science

TOKYO: A bizarre pigeon-sized dinosaur with bat-like wings made of skin rather than feathers has been identified in China, shedding...

NEW YORK: Scientists discovered a "puffed up" exoplanet that is about 500 light years from Earth. The planet is the...

FRANCE: A team of researchers have reported the discovery of moving ‘dead zones’ in the tropical North Atlantic, several hundred...

NEW YORK: About 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began in a big bang. With it was born space, time...

MEXICO: An international team of researchers discovered salty groundwater beneath the Dry Valleys region of the world’s coldest and driest...

CANADA: Bats fly with breathtaking precision because their wings are equipped with highly sensitive touch sensors, cells that respond to...

LONDON: NASA's latest Mercury space probe has crashed into the planet at just over 14 000 kilometres per hour. The...

EUROPE: NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft completed it mission at Mercury and impacted the surface...

WASHINGTON: Sea lions die in an accident during the trapping of California sea lions due to a trap malfunction at...

NEW YORK: One of the biggest hurdles to interplanetary space travel has always been fuel: how can you possibly carry...

WASHINGTON: Astronauts travelling to Mars could develop irr8eversible dementia because their brains will be bombarded with %destructive space radiation, researchers,...

MEXICO: If increases in greenhouse gases stay on pace, species will go extinct at an ever-increasing rate, according to a...

LONDON: A two-legged robot that can keep its balance and walk in an outdoor field, full of lumps, bumps and...

SYDNEY: The team of engineers and scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory succeeded in detecting and measuring two types...

NEW YORK: An elusive bird with a tendency to hide among the grassy vegetation of central China's mountainous terrain was...

PORTLAND:  Geologists say a volcano may be erupting 300 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast. Oregon State University scientist Bill...

NEW YORK: In what can be called a global study of reasons for species extinction, the major culprit remains global...

WASHINGTON: The latest images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show a bright spot near the dwarf planet's poleImages from NASA’s...

LONDON: A new study says climate change means that England is set for more record-breaking warm years just like 2014,...

EW YORK: According to new findings reported in the journal Nature, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a...