Science/tech

Phuc Dat Bich was tired of being accused of having a “false and misleading” name, so he took matters in to his own hands. After having his Facebook account shut down three times ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the firstever genetically modified animal for human consumption — an Atlantic salmon that's engineered to grow much faster than regular salmon and require less

“See less of a former partner's name and profile picture around Facebook without having to unfriend or block them. Their posts won't show up in News Feed and their name won't be suggested…

Apps for YouTube and Google's photography and maps services were at the centre of the row. Google said no operator was compelled to install its apps ...

“The population inside the hive was able to compensate for the increased loss of worker honeybees by increasing brood production…"

"We've spent lots of time talking to people who are passionate about Google+. We visited them in their homes, we invited them into early testing communities and we learned more ...

“And yet this modern groundwater is also the most sensitive to climate change and to human contamination. So, it's a vital resource that we need to manage better…”

NASA scientists want to know more about the dunes, and hope the information will help them to better understand the layer ...

“We don’t regard Macs and PCs to be the same,” said Cook. “What we’ve tried to do is to recognize that people use both ...

Geneticists have detected a fourth ancestral "tribe" which contributed to the modern European gene pool Research shows Europeans are a mixture of three major ancestral populations indigenous hunter

"The two companies have a strong position in the digital offering of audiobooks in Germany. Therefore, we feel compelled to examine the agreement between these two competitors in the audiobooks ...

These infections can slow the healing of wounds, leading to longer stays in hospital and sometimes permanent scarring. In severe cases, infections can kill…

Users in the area are being alerted by Facebook’s mobile apps, asking them whether they are safe, and offering to check on any of their friends. The app has also been sending ...

To shuttle people around their development compounds, the company has created vehicles that can navigate themselves around the streets of the housing estates ...

Tests have shown the child has only one set of vital organs, said Abu Kawsar, owner of the Standard Hospital of Total Healthcare ...