District of Columbia Science & Technology News

It is usual for fathers to pace up and down the corridors of the hospital while the mother is in labour – the father chews his fingernails as he waits anxiously to hear the good news. Not so astronauts. Randy...

Children around the country began receiving the first doses of swine flu vaccine, a day after hospitals and health care facilities began immunizing their workers. But medical facilities in only 14 states have so far received the vaccine—so far all...

In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor. After the invention of integrated circuits revolutionized computer...

Todd Marshall/National Geographic Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that "galloped" on land and patrolled the broad rivers that coursed through north Africa one hundred million years ago. The skeletons of five creatures that walked with dinosaurs...

Here is some good news for all those who want to leave this terrible planet Earth and migrate to the Moon - there is no need to panic on the likely destruction of the World on 21st December 2012. NASA...

WASHINGTON:Its true that still Nasa mission has failed to get the proves of existance of water on Moon,This whole mission was just taken for the scientific purpose, The recent research failed as the dust appeared with the blow of rocket...

Now it’s time to sift through the data to see if water turns up. That’s the stage that scientists find themselves in after what they say was a successful mission aimed at seeing whether deep, frigid polar craters hold a...

The infections are "overwhelmingly" pandemic H1N1 influenza, commonly known as swine flu, he noted. The flu season generally lasts well into May, he said, so we have many months of uncertainties ahead of us. Shipments of swine flu vaccines have...

There is indeed some water on the moon, with three different spacecraft seemingly putting to rest the scientific school of thought that the orb is bone-dry. Friday’s issue of the journal Science cites “unambiguous evidence” of either water (two hydrogen...