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Newspaper publishers will be able to set limits on the number of free news articles people can read through Google. The concession follows claims that Google is profiting from online news pages. Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can...

The casing of the exclusive iPhone 3GS Supreme was created using 271 grams of 22 carat solid gold. The front bezel houses 136 flawless diamonds totalling a massive 68 carats while the Apple logo on the back is made from...

No matter what others might say, the Mars mission is very much on. The European Space Agency is on a recruitment drive – they want half a dozen committed individuals, men and women, who would volunteer to remain captive in...

Slowing evolution could be the key to creating new drugs to combat antibiotic resistant germs. Many disease causing organisms develop immunity to the drugs that doctors use to treat them over time. A group of researchers at Sweden’s University of...

A scientist at the Orebro University in Sweden has recently developed a new method of allowing severely hearing-impaired people to regain at least a part of their former sense. The expert, engineering researcher Parivash Ranjbar, has developed a machine that...

Financial comparison websites have multiplied almost as fact as hormonally charged rabibts in recent years as copycat entrepreneurs all rush to get a slice of this lucrative market. There's no doubt they've proved a money spinner for their founders: the...

Scientists have for the first time worked out a way of using birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations The sound recordings from a microphone placed in forests or woods can now be translated into accurate estimates of...

Female sharks can reproduce without having sex,according to a scientific research. A female hammerhead shark has given birth without mating with a male and its baby has no fatherly DNA. Sharks can reproduce asexually by an unusual method known as...

Dutch Bit Torrent tracker Mininova has passed into oblivion with it's decision to cease all tracking aside from it's official Content Distribution Service, the white elephant it launched in 2007 utilised in an attempt to abide by a Utrecht court...