Science & Technology
Facebook buys facial recognition start-up Face.com
Facebook has decided to buy an Israeli startup specializing in facial recognition technology - Face.com. The firm already provides software that allows Facebook's members to...
Heavy tea drinkers at higher risk of prostate cancer
According to new research, men who are heavy tea drinkers may be more likely to develop prostate cancer. A team from Glasgow University tracked the...
Woman with superhuman vision discovered by dr. Gabriele Jordan
Dr. Gabriele Jordan, a researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience in UK, claims she has found a woman who has the ability to view...
Microsoft Surface tablet powered by Windows 8 unveiled
Microsoft has unveiled Surface, its own-brand family of tablets, which will be powered by its upcoming Windows 8 system and contains a choice of...
Facebook to pay $10M to charity to settle “Like” lawsuit
Facebook will pay $10 million to charity to settle a lawsuit over the way it used "social" ads. Known as a "sponsored story", the ads...
YouTube removes posts promoting terrorism
Google announces it removed about 640 videos from YouTube that allegedly promoted terrorism over the second half of 2011 after complaints from the UK's...
IBM Sequoia overtakes Fujitsu as world’s fastest supercomputer
IBM's Sequoia supercomputer has taken the top spot on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers for the US. The newly installed system trumped Japan's...
Shenzhou-9 capsule docks with the Tiangong-1 space lab
Shenzhou-9 capsule, with its crew of three, including the first Chinese woman astronaut, has docked with the Tiangong-1 space lab. The coupling of the vehicles...
High cholesterol diet could help people with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
According to early studies in mice, a diet high in cholesterol may help people with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, a fatal genetic disease which damages the...
Universe could grind to a halt and time itself will slow down, new radical theory suggests
A new radical theory by academics suggests that time itself could be slowing down - and may eventually grind to a halt altogether. The latest...
UFO-shaped object found sitting on the bottom of the Baltic Sea still a mystery
The Swedish expedition team that found an unidentified object sitting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea has surfaced with more questions than answers - and...
Club-winged Manakin, the only bird known to sing with its wings. Secret decoded.
Club-winged Manakin, the only bird known to sing with its wings, contains some secrets of its performance in its bones, researchers have found. The club-winged...
Apple 1 computer, the company’s first product, fetches $375,000 at a New York auction
A rare functioning Apple 1 computer - the company's first product - has been sold at a New York auction for $374,500. The price was more...
Liu Yang, first Chinese woman astronaut, set for space launch with Shenzhou-9
China is about to launch its fourth manned space mission and is sending a crew of three, including the nation's first female astronaut, to...
John the Baptist bones: Oxford scientists claim positive carbon dating tests on relics found in Bulgaria
Carbon dating tests carried out at Oxford University have provided scientific evidence to support the extraordinary claim that the bones found amid the ruins...
Oldest cave art in Europe: red dots, hand stencils and animal figures from Spain’s caves
Researchers have found that red dots, hand stencils and animal figures represent the oldest examples yet found of cave art in Europe. The symbols on...
Alzheimer gene linked to diabetes
US scientists have recently identified a possible genetic link between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. It has been known for some time that people with diabetes...
Bonobo Genome Has Been Decoded
Scientists have succeeded to decode the bonobo genome, the biochemical instructions in the ape's cells that guide the building and maintenance of the animal's...
Cougars on rebound in US Midwest after a century of decline
Scientists have announced that the American mountain lion or cougar is now re-populating US Midwest. Their numbers had plummeted in the last 100 years because...
Tumor-killing reovirus ride blood cells, researchers have found
British researchers have shown that a tumor-killing virus can sneak around the body by "hitchhiking" on the back of blood cells. It is hoped reoviruses...
Australia creates world’s largest marine reserve ahead of Rio+20 Earth Summit
Australia announces that it will create the world's largest network of marine parks ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The reserves will cover 3.1 million...
ICANN releases full list of submissions for new internet address endings
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has released the full list of submissions for new internet address endings. Requests to the ICANN include...
European Extremely Large Telescope, world’s biggest telescope, to be built in Chile’s Atacama Desert
A coalition of 15 states, members of European Union, has announced plans to build the biggest telescope in the world. The mirror inside the telescope...
ATM cardless withdrawal smartphone app unveiled by RBS
A new technology that will enable people to withdraw money from cash machines (ATM’s) using their smartphone has been unveiled. Customers who use the Royal...
ICANN will reveal new internet domain claims
According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), US-based organizations accounted for nearly half of all applications for new net address...
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