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'Super' battery being developed in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstani scientists have developed a battery with a capacity times higher than in those currently available.
14 October 2014
Malala dedicates Nobel award to 'voiceless' children
Education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai dedicated her Nobel peace prize on Friday to "voiceless" children around the world.
11 October 2014
'Sexting' still prevalent among US teens: researchers
"Sexting," or sending sexually explicit images by phone, remains prevalent among US teenagers despite the well-known risks and consequences.
10 October 2014
US, German astronauts finish spacewalk to maintain ISS
An American and a German astronaut spent just over six hours on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station for equipment repairs and maintenance.
08 October 2014
Trio win Nobel medicine prize for brain's 'GPS'
British-American researcher John O'Keefe won the Nobel Medicine Prize with May-Britt and Edvard Moser, for discovering an "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate.
07 October 2014
Scientists stretch haul of height-related genes
Scientists said they had pinpointed nearly 700 genetic variations that determine human height, more than tripling the haul in researc.
06 October 2014
Scientists sound alarm over long wait for Nobel prize
Awarding Nobels decades after the original scientific discovery could lead to the coveted prize becoming irrelevant.
05 October 2014
Woman has baby after womb transplant in world first: Lancet
A 36-year-old Swede has become the world's first woman to give birth after receiving a womb transplant.
04 October 2014
US-India to collaborate on Mars exploration
The United States and India agreed to cooperate on future exploration of the Red Planet.
01 October 2014
New Kazakh robot to help the visually impaired
Kazakhstan laboratory has built a prototype of a robot with a system of speech recognition and synthesis.
29 September 2014
Roche breast cancer drug 'helps patients live longer': study
A drug developed by Swiss giant Roche to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer has been shown to extend patients' lives by almost 16 months.
29 September 2014
India's spacecraft beams back first Mars photos
India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface.
25 September 2014
Indian spacecraft on course to enter Mars orbit
India is on course to become the first nation to reach Mars on its first attempt.
24 September 2014
SpaceX cargo capsule nears International Space Station
SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft was nearing the International Space Station with a cargo of supplies.
23 September 2014
Physicists achieve longer distance quantum teleportation
Physicists in Switzerland said they had succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal.
22 September 2014
Weather forces delay to SpaceX cargo mission
Thick clouds and rain over the Florida coast early forced the California-based SpaceX to postpone the launch of its Dragon cargo carrier.
20 September 2014
Chimps are natural-born killers, say scientists
Chimpanzees can be lethally violent to each other but this stems from an inherent streak and not, as some have suggested, from human interference.
18 September 2014
American waistlines get bigger and bigger: study
The average American's waistline has expanded over the past decade, adding about one inch (2.5 centimeters) of belly fat.
17 September 2014
NASA to make announcement on US human spaceflights
The company -- or companies -- that will build America's next space taxi to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit and back is to be revealed.
17 September 2014
NASA asteroid defense program falls short: audit
The US space agency's program to detect and protect the Earth from incoming asteroids is poorly managed and far behind schedule.
16 September 2014