World Science & Technology News

You gotta give credit where credit's due. The hearty settlers of the Valley of the Sun had no idea what they were getting into when they came here, but they brought civilization to the desert. Consider, for example, the sturdy...

With markets crashing all across the world, Dubai is embarking on a new mission to build the "global city of the future." The super duper project is cost approximately $95 billion dollar-around 15% of US economic bailout plan. Meraas will...

Inspectors from the Korean Food and Drug Administration have recalled snack products found to contain trace levels of the industrial chemical melamine. The contaminant was found in Peanut Snickers Fun Size and M&M's both sold by Mars Korea, as well...

Motorola presents MOTOROLA EM28 its one of the best invented phone with dashing good look includes 1.3 megapixel camera which captures your every moments with your choice with video recorder and also java MIDP 2.0. Internet surfing in this handset...

Believe it or not, that roll of sticky tape on your desk emits X-rays. Don't worry, you're not getting irradiated when you use it, unless you work in a vacuum. It has been known for a long time that sticky...

For middle-aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests. A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulated centres in the brain that controlled decision-making and complex reasoning. The researchers...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is keeping a close track on Chandrayaan-1. Three days after launch, Chandrayaan-1 is cruising 39,000 kilometers above the earth. It circles the earth once every 11 hours. The ISRO Mission Control says all systems...

Smokers who will be buy cigarettes from Wednesday will see gruesome images of cancerous lungs and throats as well as rotting teeth printed on the packets showing how tobacco harms a person's health. The pictures will replace written warnings from...

BY NOREEN: The suicide rate in the U.S. is on the rise, according to a report from Johns Hopkins University. Researchers found that the overall rate rose 0.7 percent from 1999 to 2005. But the rate for white women ages...

A reliable survey released by the World Conservation Congress claims that 1 out of 4 mammals is teetering on the brink of extinction. The comprehensive data involved 1700 researchers in 130 countries. 5,487 mammal species were investigated across every major...