Science/tech

Scientists have previously been unsure as to why the eyes widen if we are scared - but now say it has two effects...

Internet giant Google has changed the tagline on the front page of its Palestinian edition from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine"...

Although Glass does not go on sale to the public until next year, the attack raises major security and privacy questions over Google's plans for the device, The Daily Mail reports.,,

Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the first permanent British settlers in America survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism...

The stop-motion animation uses a few dozen carbon atoms, moved around with the tiny tip of what is called a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM)...

The display appears to be floating a few inches in front of the eye. The first thing a user will see is a clock with the time, which is the first "card" in the timeline. Other cards ...

A BMW X5 model-car plunged off the road in the Garegin Nzhdeh square in Yerevan and flying 30 meters hit the stone fence appearing in underground passage of the metro station...

The striking images of the storm were snapped from a height of 420.000km (260,000mi) by the Cassini spacecraft, which arrived at Saturn in 2004...

"Apple's Aa1 rating is not higher due to Moody's view that there are inherent long-run risks for any company with high exposure to shifting consumer preferences ...

The billion-euro Herschel observatory has run out of the liquid helium needed to keep its instruments and detectors at their ultra-low functioning temperature...

Despite being the world's largest social network with more than a billion users, people in Facebook's biggest markets are deleting their accounts...

Tech blogger Robert Scoble is one of the few people to experience the spectacle-style device which projects a mini-display directly in front of the user's eye and ...

Experiments outlined in Science used X-rays to probe tiny samples of iron at extraordinary pressures to examine how the iron crystals form and melt...

The 50 planes around the world were grounded due to battery malfunctions that saw one 787 catch fire in the US. Over the past week teams of Boeing engineers have been fitting new batteries...

Faith in a higher being has been found to significantly improve treatment for people suffering with a psychiatric illness, according to research carried out by McLean Hospital in Belmont