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Scientist's DNA letter to son fetches $6 million A letter the British scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA wrote to his son announcing the news sold Wednesday for a record sum of just over $6 million.

12 April 2013

Authorities mull building 4 airdromes for local use around Almaty Almaty oblast administration has made several suggestions on improvement of the oblast's infrastructure.

11 April 2013

11 April 2013

Big name investors back Google Glass "Collective" Powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firms on Wednesday joined Google to launch a syndicate devoted to backing entrepreneurs building products for Google's coming Internet glasses.

11 April 2013

Inventions, practical and oddball, showcased at Geneva fair The impeccably-dressed South Korean flipped a tyre sideways, and with a deft sweep snapped a curious, pastel-shaded device onto the hub.

11 April 2013

Foreign experts to check quality of Kazakhstan roads Kazakhstan Ministry of Transport and Communications insists on hiring foreign companies to check and accept Kazakhstan roads into service.

10 April 2013

New 126-apartment building declared unfit for living in Petropavlovsk Prosecutors of North-Kazakhstan oblast have declared 126-apartment building in Petropavlovsk unfit for exploitation.

10 April 2013

Google weaves a web between human trafficking hotlines Sex workers are more likely to call in to a hotline for victims of human trafficking on a Wednesday, and a Google-backed initiative announced Tuesday could help to explain why.

10 April 2013

Government to buy first batch of 'Kazakh national keyboards' The authors of the 'Kazakh national keyboard' called AdamSky have received the first final sample of their invention from a Chinese factory.

09 April 2013

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China to help Kazakhstan produce FMCG Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund and Chinese corporation CITIC Group is expanding their investment activities in Kazakhstan's non-energy sector.

09 April 2013

'World's greatest' chef Adria seeks digital legacy From foie gras noodles and liquid olives to air baguettes and mimetic peanuts, much of what elBulli chef Ferran Adria and his team created in their nearly 2,000 dishes defies transcription.

08 April 2013

Foreign wind farms cause uproar in Mexican villages Foreign energy firms have flocked to a narrow region of southern Mexico, known as one of the world's windiest places, to build towering wind turbines, but some projects have angered and torn indigenous villages.

07 April 2013

Ancient mysteries revealed in Turkmen desert sands Over four millennia ago, the fortress town of Gonur-Tepe might have been a rare advanced civilisation before it was buried for centuries under the dust of the Kara Kum desert in remote western Turkmenistan.

06 April 2013

Electric car maker Fisker cuts 75 pct of workforce High end electric car maker Fisker Automotive, which has had financial difficulties for months, said Friday it was laying off 75 percent of its workforce.

06 April 2013

Fukushima fuel cooling system stops again:TEPCO One of the systems keeping spent atomic fuel cool at the Fukushima nuclear plant temporarily failed on Friday, the second outage in a matter of weeks, underlining the precarious fix at the plant.

06 April 2013

Scientists use 3D printer to make tissue-like material British scientists have used a custom-made 3D printer to make living tissue-like material that could one day serve medical purposes.

06 April 2013

Garbage dump near Almaty airport endangers air traffic Kazakhstan Vice-PM has instructed Akim of Almaty oblast to move the household wastes dumping site away from Almaty airport within one week.

05 April 2013

Japan scientists can 'read' dreams: study Scientists in Japan said Friday they had found a way to "read" people's dreams, using MRI scanners to unlock some of the secrets of the unconscious mind.

05 April 2013

Facebook stakes out Android 'home' to battle rivals Facebook unveiled a software suite Thursday that stakes out a "home" on Android smartphones as it steps up its challenge to Apple and Google in the booming mobile market.

05 April 2013