Kazakhstan ready to shell out $1.5 billion to construct EXPO-2017 venue
Liège in Belgium is the only one other candidate to host the fair.
Mars rover captures crash landing
NASA said Friday that a mysterious spot shown on a photograph sent back to Earth by the Mars rover Curiosity was the crash landing of its rocket stage.
Wired reporter hack reveals perils of digital age
The perils of modern dependence on Internet-linked gadgets and digitally-stored memories remained a hot topic on Friday in the wake of a hack that wiped clean a Wired reporter's devices.
NASA's Morpheus test lander crashes and burns
NASA's experimental moon lander crashed and burst into flames seconds after takeoff Thursday due to a hardware fault, the US space agency said, prompting an investigation but no casualties.
Kazakhstan will see apogee of Perseids meteor shower
The apogee of Perseids meteor shower will fall on the night of August 12.
Swiss algorithm tracks crime, rumours, epidemics to source
Scientists in Switzerland said on Friday they had devised software that can swiftly trace terror suspects, computer viruses, rumour-mongering and even infectious diseases back to their source.
Australian jet lands in Antarctica on rescue mission
An Australian government jet carrying a medical team made a successful landing on an icy runway in Antarctica Thursday to rescue a sick scientist from the United States' McMurdo Station base.
Google extends online search to email boxes
Google on Wednesday began allowing users to extend online searches to include messages stored in accounts at Web-based email service Gmail.
Curiosity's second day on Mars 'flawless': NASA
NASA rover Curiosity's second day on Mars went "flawlessly," NASA said Wednesday, confirming the antennas, communication links and generator on the $2.5 billion robot are all working well.