Science/tech

Researchers at St Andrews, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany and Montana Tech in the US joined together to create the virtual keyboard, which will be available as a free app for...

Since the remains of the small humanoid - known as 'Atacama Humanoid' and nicknamed Ata - were discovered in Chile's Atacama Desert 10 years ago there has been much speculation about its origins...

Archaeologists excavating the inner courtyard of a former Dominican monastery may have discovered a Romanian Romeo and Juliet after unearthing the bodies of a young couple...

The library comprises around 700 volumes, including theoretical literature devoted to the topic, as well as other items concerning the Jewish Holocust and ...

The 40m-tall Antares vehicle lifted clear of the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 1700 local time (2100 GMT)...

The results suggest life first appeared about 10 billion years ago - long before Earth, which is believed to be 4.5 billion years old...

The shell is apparently slightly wider and longer than the iPhone 4S, so we could be seeing the same 4-inch screen used on the iPhone 5 and iPod touch. Specs for the lower-cost iPhone ...

Unlike many new logos that are more 3D-visual, Facebook’s main “f” logo will go flat and the transparent white strip that has been part of the logo for quite some time has been ...

Scientists say these new worlds are the right size and distance from their parent star, so that you might expect to find liquid water on their surface...

Research at a site around a mile from Stonehenge has found evidence of a settlement dating back to 7500BC, 5,000 years earlier than previous findings confirmed...

Songs can be played directly in the app via services such as Rdio, Spotify and iTunes. The software displays songs ...

The jury comprises professors from Yerevan State University, State Engineering University of Armenia and State Pedagogical University of Armenia, young scientists, teachers, and other specialists…

The researchers acknowledge the study does not provide any conclusive answers, but said it asked interesting questions about the cost of fame...

The abilities of 10,534 UK seven-year-olds, whose mothers had either abstained from alcohol or drank lightly while pregnant, were analysed...

The researchers found the effect was true regardless of which song was played, although the tracks had to be slowed down so that they sounded like a lullaby...