Experts have successfully managed to extract DNA from a 19,000-year-old emu eggshell.

Computer giant Apple is set to revolutionize the traditional door key with introduction of a hi-tech alternative nicknamed the ”iKey”.

Experts have come up with a cellphone that can recharge its own battery by harvesting energy from the owner’’s motion.

A UN programme on HIV/Aids has warned that HIV is fast becoming the leading cause of death and disease among women of reproductive age worldwide.

An international team of scientists studying high-energy collisions of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has published evidence of the most massive antinucleus discovered to date.

Reports indicate that China plans to launch the Chang”e-2, the country”s second lunar probe, in October this year.

Astronomers have discovered a relic from the early universe – a star that may have been among the second generation of stars to form after the Big Bang.

A report from the Institute of Physics, US, has predicted that an era of planet discovery is dawning that will see thousands of new worlds identified in the next few years, some of which may harbour life.

Reports indicate that Professor Phil Jones, a climate scientist, has admitted that he had “written some very awful e-mails”, that attempted to suppress crucial data on climate change.

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday was not outside the realm of normal, but the Earth has been more active over the past 15 years or so.