Science/tech

The scientists predict that over the next few decades the world's population will increase so quickly that there will not be enough livestock to feed everyone.

The report shows that more than half of the top 10 and top 20 countries in the world are European, although predominantly drawn from the north of the continent.

The alleged information was taken from a server used by Apple for online surveys and did not belong to the public or Apple customers.

Google's new social network service, Google+, has apparently been blocked in China within a day of being launched ...

Facebook has gone from nowhere a few years ago to become the biggest single seller of online display advertising in the United States with more than $2 billion in revenues ...

Google had tried to have the class action lawsuit thrown out, claiming that anyone could have intercepted the wireless signals. It had previously admitted collecting ...

The physics behind this event is similar to what happens in so-called cloud seeding, where a chemical such as silver iodide is dispersed into clouds to influence the amount of precipitation ...

This source learned of China's interest when it approached him to see if he could help put together a stake large enough "to matter."

Multiple sources say there's been mounting tension between Twitter and its developer community as the company matures and and exerts greater control over its platform.

A report said there was still "much uncertainty", but fenugreek seeds imported in 2009 and 2010 "had been implicated in both outbreaks ...

Trace amounts of radioactive substances have been found in urine samples taken from children from Fukushima city, raising concerns that residents have been exposed ...

Non-smoking women are more likely to be obese and die of associated illnesses than those who smoke, according to a research ...

The 84-year-old pontiff, dressed in a white cassock at the head of a long wooden table in the Vatican, can be seen tapping on a link with the word "Publish" which does not appear to work but then ...

Stone’s departure is said to be a turning point for Twitter, as he and Williams were responsible for transforming the product from a runaway start-up to an international success. They leave ...

Google+ features several components that attempt to mimic natural human interaction. For instance, to simulate sitting out on your front porch, one feature allows users to declare that ...