Text messages help cholera fight in Mozambique
As Mozambique struggles to recover from the worst flooding in more than a decade, aid agencies are pioneering the use of mobile phones to distribute aid and, they hope, cut the cost of logistics in disaster zones.
Kazakhstan Food Academy denies harmfulness of sodium benzoate in Kazakhstan milk
Sodium benzoate is allowed in milk as a substance not effecting human health at low concentration: Kazakhstan Food Academy.
Kazakhstan and U.S. doctors tap into anti-aging medicines
Kazakhstan and U.S. scientists are planning to jointly study aging processes and methods of their retardation.
Vast asteroid impact zone found in Australia
Scientists have discovered a massive 200-kilometre (124-mile) impact zone in the Australian outback they believe was caused by an asteroid which smashed into Earth more than 300 million years ago.
NASA scrambles for better asteroid detection
NASA, universities and private groups in the US are working on asteroid warning systems that can detect objects from space like the one that struck Russia last week with a blinding flash and mighty boom.
Almaty citizen invents life-saving swimming suit
A small device can be sewn into any swimming suit and in case the swimmer goes more than 2 meters underwater, it automatically blows up the life-saving bubble.
Almaty student won 1 million tenge for easy parking device
The student of the International University of Information Technologies in Almaty who developed equipment for easy parking received 1 million tenge for his invention.
Forgotten work by Japan Nobel laureate uncovered
A previously unknown short story by Japan's first Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata, best-known for the novel "Snow Country".