Science/tech

"In this case, information that people have agreed to make public was collected by a single researcher and already exists in Google, Bing, other search engines, as well as on Faceboo ...

"We found that patients who had drunk alcohol most frequently had symptoms that were less severe than those who had never drunk alcohol or only drunk it infrequently ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said that it could move to restrict or monitor BlackBerry mobile phones, as they pose a "national security risk" ...

Team members want to cut out as much of this cosmic ray interference as possible, even if it means moving the experiment 2km below ground. This could help them positively identify ...

"We build pretty detailed models of the visual cortex and study specific properties of the microcircuits. We're working out which aspects are crucial for certain functional properties ...

Dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico have been ordered to leave the site of the BP oil spill by the US government as Tropical Storm Bonnie gathers pace. Incident commander Admiral Thad ...

"It started off small, rolled and rolled, then all of a sudden not just your immediate circle of friends are on it but loads of people are, and they're all evangelising about why you should be ...

"The government has made a decision to earmark 24.7 billion rubles ($809m) over the next three years for the start of the full-blown construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome ...

"At Orange the summer goes under the motto "good thing are for everyone. "Coloured" numbers have always had a special importance in Armenia, for which people were obliged to pay ...

"The forest has now been fragmented into a series of small islands. They can't move to one another, they can't mate, breed, so it has real implications for the future persistence of the species ...

"We now have a route to manufacture for the whole car. "We would hope to be able to shake down the vehicle on a runway in the UK either at the end of 2011 or at the beginning of 2012 ...

BP had hoped the cap could stay in place until relief wells stop the leak for good. But with pressure readings from within the well lower than expected, scientists had raised concerns that oil ...

“Modern technologies develop with an uncredible speed, and their usage in the everyday life allows not only to make easy people’s life, make distances shorter, but also stimulate ...

"I translated a book by German writer Jacob Kunzler In the Land of Tears and Blood and asked for permission to publish it in the printing house Nair. But waiting more than a year ...

Its non-stop operation, day and night, means it has now gone five times longer than the official mark recognised by the world air sports federation ...