TVs get bigger, bolder, smarter at CES show
TV makers showing off their new wares at a huge trade fair will seek to dazzle consumers with bigger, bolder displays, and smarter technologies for consumers who want television to be a "multiscreen" experience.
09 January 2013
Science gets a grip on finger wrinkles
Getting pruney fingers from soaking in the bath is an evolutionary advantage, for it helps us get a better grip on objects under water.
09 January 2013
The challenge of Googling North Korea
What is one of the world's most prominent advocates of Internet freedom doing in a country where unregulated access to information is generally either impossible or criminal?
09 January 2013
Apple tailoring cheaper iPhone model: reports
Reports echoing online Tuesday fueled speculation that Apple is tailoring a low-price version of the iPhone for China and other emerging markets.
09 January 2013
'17 billion' Earth-sized planets in Milky Way: study
The Milky Way contains at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth, and likely many more, according to a study out Monday that raises the chances of discovering a sister planet to ours.
08 January 2013
Zinc hungry China asks Canada to back giant mine
With zinc sources drying up and demand forecast to surge, resource hungry China is looking to Canada to approve two giant mines and close the gap -- but environmentalists and roving caribou stand in the way.
07 January 2013
An Italian teacher who kills celebrities on Twitter
Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope Benedict XVI -- Italian Tommasso Debenedetti has killed them all in fake tweets aimed at exposing shoddy journalism that have earned him global notoriety.
Ancient Afghan papers shed light on Jewish life
A cache of 1,000-year-old documents written by the Jewish community in Afghanistan and unveiled in Jerusalem on Thursday sheds unprecedented light on the mediaeval Jewish community in central Asia.
'Black Beauty' could yield Martian secrets A fist-sized meteorite nicknamed "Black Beauty" could unlock vital clues to the evolution of Mars from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state.
Almaty subway carried 7 million people in 2012We did not expect such a flow in 2012. In the coldest days (from December 1 to 20) the number of passengers almost doubled: press-secretary.
03 January 2013
Japan PM Abe wants new nuclear reactors: reports Japan's new prime minister Shinzo Abe has voiced his willingness to build new nuclear reactors, reports said Monday, despite widespread public opposition to atomic energy in light of the Fukushima crisis.
01 January 2013
Dried squash holds headless French king's blood: study Two centuries after the French people beheaded Louis XVI and dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood, scientists believe they have authenticated the remains of one such rag kept as a revolutionary souvenir.
31 December 2012
Fukushima 'unprecedented challenge': new Japan PM The clean-up at Fukushima after its tsunami-sparked nuclear meltdowns is unlike anything humanity has ever tried, Japan's prime minister said Saturday during a tour of the plant.
China launches rival GPS satellite systemChina has launched commercial and public services across the Asia-Pacific region on its domestic satellite navigation network built to rival the US global positioning system.
29 December 2012
Japan's new govt to review zero-nuclear policyJapan's new leaders set to work Thursday on dismantling plans to rid the country of nuclear power by 2040, pledging to review a post-Fukushima policy.