Science/tech

"The main concern was security of sensitive defence installations. The defence ministry said it was not possible to monitor the service once it was launched and it would be detrimental to national security..."

“In 10, 20 or 30 years, it will be too late,” said Lewis Pugh, who has undertaken swims in all the world’s oceans. Last year, he completed five swims in the Ross Sea ...

The company has apparently come up with an instant beer concentrate that works with their soda machines, allowing anyone to turn water ...

“This monumental platform has no parallels at Petra or in its hinterlands at present,” the researchers wrote, noting that the structure, strangely, is near ...

The Hobbit's discovery in a cave on Flores created a sensation 12 years ago. Just a metre in height, it was initially thought they could have been living as recently as ...

The corpses of 10 individuals were found in one of 300 ancient silos, used to store grain and other food, according a team from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research ...

The application, which will be free to download in both French and English, will send users a warning “in case of a suspected attack ...

"We hadn't tweaked anything; we'd just turned everything on to see if the laser was running and, bang, there it was. And the performance has just got better and better ...

"These soft photons and gravitons record information about what went into the black hole - infinitely more information than we previously believed is recorded by this mechanism..."

"Different people will find that different treatments help to manage their mental health - what is most important is that people have the knowledge needed to access the treatment that works for them...

The IAEA has no access to North Korea after being thrown out in 2009, so relies largely on satellite data. But the agency's head, Yukiya Amano, said recent images indicated ...

The embryos are part of research aimed at overcoming the worldwide shortage of transplant organs. The team from University of California, Davis says ...

"These are early results and we'll need to follow up our work for three years in full to find out if this technique affects survival and end-of-life care for bowel cancer patients..."

"To be honest, with this latest measurement we've really gone beyond what we might call 'tension'; we're missing something in our understanding of the cosmos..."

"Consideration for pregnant women should prevail and they should be able to use public transportation more easily and conveniently with this policy.Women should be able to use city facilities easily even when they are expecting..."