UK first country to legally offer 'three-parent' gene therapy

Britain's fertility regulator gives the green light for the country to become the first in the world to legally offer "three-parent baby" fertility treatments.
15 December 2016

Puffer: Not just a fish

If you have never tried this swollen but decent looking fish yet, probably you are lucky enough and would better stay away from it!
6 December 2016

Human ancestor 'Lucy' adept at tree climbing as well as walking

Scientists using sophisticated scanning technology on the fossil bones of the ancient human ancestor from Ethiopia dubbed "Lucy" have determined that she was adept at climbing trees as well as walking, an ability that in her case may have proven fatal.
1 December 2016

Google celebrates birthday of Jagadish Chandra Bose

Google is celebrating the 158th birthday of Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, one of the fathers of radio science, with a doodle which shows him sitting in his laboratory.
30 November 2016

Navigation system failure cited in crash of European Mars lander

Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed last month after a sensor failure caused it to cast away its parachute and turn off braking thrusters more than two miles (3.7 km) above the surface of the planet, as if it had already landed, a report says.
24 November 2016

Huge underground deposit of ice found on Mars

A giant deposit of buried ice on Mars contains about as much water as Lake Superior of French, a new study reveals.
23 November 2016

Underground ocean found on Pluto, likely slushy with ice

Scientists have found evidence that tiny, distant Pluto harbors a hidden ocean beneath the frozen surface of its heart-shaped central plain containing as much water as all of Earth's seas.
17 November 2016

Dinosaurs thrived on eve of destruction

In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head becomes trapped in mud, struggles in vain to escape and dies.
11 November 2016

Wireless implant allows paralysed monkeys to walk again

Scientists have successfully restored walking movement in paralysed legs of primates, by implanting a wireless brain sensor to stimulate nerves in the spine responsible for locomotion.
10 November 2016

Ancient cave lion cubs found crushed and frozen in Russia

For more than 30,000 years, northern Russia's cold permafrost preserves the small bodies of two furry and wide-pawed cave lion cubs, one of them in almost pristine condition.
3 November 2016

Everyone should watch DiCaprio's ‘Before the flood’

Leonardo DiCaprio’s passionate plea for the planet dominated his Oscar acceptance speech and now the actor has taken time out from his usual movie-making duties to front a powerful film about climate change called Before The Flood.
2 November 2016

Bangladesh born scientist jointly wins Prince Sultan prize for water

A Bangladeshi-American scientist and his team member have won the prestigious creativity prize of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW).
30 October 2016

What effect does a vegetarian diet have on cardiovascular health?

A recent American study concludes that cutting out meat does not reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in the next decade.
24 October 2016

[WATCH] 13-yr old genius makes clean energy producing device at $5

Meet Maanasa Mendu, who invents a device to harvest wind power by utilising piezoelectric materials that are both eco-friendly and cost efficient.
24 October 2016

Hawking opens British artificial intelligence hub

Professor Stephen Hawking opens a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University.
20 October 2016

Life on Mars: Lander aims for risky touch down

The search for life on Mars may take a giant leap on Wednesday when a space lander is due to touch down on the red planet in Europe's first attempt to land a craft there since the Beagle 2's "heroic failure" more than a decade ago.
19 October 2016

European-led Mars lander to start descent to red planet

A Mars lander is due to leave its mothership on Sunday and head toward the red planet's surface to test technologies for Europe's planned first Mars rover, which will search for signs of past and present life.
16 October 2016

Apes show complex cognitive skills watching 'King Kong' videos

Scientists using homemade videos featuring a person in a King Kong costume documents a remarkable cognitive skill shared by chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans: the human-like ability to recognize when someone else's beliefs are wrong.
10 October 2016

Planet in star system next door may have ocean: study

A rocky planet discovered in the "habitable" zone of the star nearest our Sun may be covered with oceans, according to a new study.
8 October 2016

[WATCH] Now you can have your own backyard wind power plant!

Harnessing the unlimited potential from the renewable forms of natural resources has so far come at a great price, until the Biometric Energy Trees enter the scene.
28 September 2016