Science & Environment
US launches unmanned space plane
The US Air Force has launched an unmanned space plane on its maiden voyage into orbit to serve as a test platform for unspecified experiments.
CERN creates 10 million mini-Big Bangs in one week
Physicists at the CERN research center said on Wednesday they had created 10 million mini-Big Bangs in the first week of mega-power operations...
Mini-Big Bangs created in cosmos origins project
Physicists smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy on Tuesday, creating thousands of mini-Big Bangs ...
What Is a Tsunami?
A once-exotic word that has now entered everyday use as a term tinged with fear, a tsunami refers to a shock of water propagated through the sea,...
Japan will defend 'whaling rights'
Japan will defend its right to carry on whaling despite a threat of possible legal action led by Australia,...
Study: Malaria killed King Tut
King Tutankhamen, Egypt's best-known pharaoh, was a frail youth who died due to "severe malaria" more than 3,000 years ago,...
Climate panel admits glacier gaffe
The head of a United Nations panel of climate scientists has said that a prediction in one of the Nobel-prize winning panel's reports ...
Solar eclipse enthrals millions
Millions of people in Africa and Asia have viewed what is likely to prove the longest solar eclipse of the third millenium....
Smoking, drinking up risks of gut, throat cancers
A new study confirms that smoking raises a person's risks of the major forms of esophageal and stomach cancers, while drinking has more narrow effects....
