Science/tech

Romain Charles and Diego Urbina have been chosen to go into a set of steel containers on 3 June with two Russians and a Chinese national. The group's exile will test the physical and ...

A massive effort to contain what threatens to become an environmental catastrophe has been under way since 20 April, when an explosion killed 11 workers and ...

Oil from a massive slick in the Gulf of Mexico has started washing ashore on an island chain off the coast of Louisiana, US officials have confirmed ...

On a number of occasions, bonobos were filmed using side to side head movements to prevent others from doing something they did not want them to do. In one film ...

"Our plans are clear. We will proceed with extending our 2G and 3G+ coverage with the view of covering 93% population by late August. By the end of this year we will have ...

"There's no guarantees. We'll undoubtedly encounter some issues as we go through that process. But if that was a good outcome, then you would have the principal ...

Apple on Monday reported out-of-this-world sales for its iPad, but complaints from some users and regulators threaten to bring the gadget and the company back down to earth ...

"We're dealing with a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster. The oil that is still leaking from the well could seriously damage the ...

The world's governments will not meet their internationally-agreed target of curbing the loss of species and nature by 2010, a major study has confirmed. Virtually all species ...

Russian mobile phone operator MTC has started negotiations with micro blogging social network Twitter with an aim to get permission to send twits through SMSs. This new service ...

"Earth view offers a true three-dimensional perspective, which lets you experience mountains in full detail, 3D buildings and first-person dives beneath the ocean ...

Head of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Radik Martirosyan, expressed his dissatisfaction about the annual speech Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan ...

"We routinely use the three hardy reflectors placed on the moon by the Apollo 11, 14 and 15 missions, and occasionally the Soviet-landed Lunokhod 2 reflector – though it does ...

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said on Monday they believe they may have found Noah's Ark - 4000m up a mountain in Turkey.The team say they ...

Research in Archives of Internal Medicine shows those who eat at least a bar every week are more glum than those who only eat chocolate now and again. Many believe ....