Science

New method to stop cells dividing could help fight cancer

Turning off enzymes that are important for the survival of growing cells is a promising… Read More

‘The Year of AI’: Top trends and innovations in science and technology in the year 2017

2017 was an eventful year for innovations in science and technology as the world started… Read More

Emojis promising tool for tracking cancer patients’ quality of life: study

A team of researchers recently found that using emojis instead of traditional emotional scales were… Read More

Pigeons may be smarter than you think.

A study out Monday in the journal Current Biology found that pigeons are able to… Read More

Scientists develop first entirely soft artificial heart but it has a problem!

It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely… Read More

Science update on climate change: from bad to worse

PARIS: Scientists monitoring the Earth's climate and environment have delivered a cascade of grim news… Read More

Scientists compile the first atlas of a healthy human heart

Scientists have compiled the first atlas of the healthy human heart, a development which may… Read More

Climate change pushing Earth toward risky ‘tipping points’: report

BONN: As climate change drives up temperatures, Earth comes ever closer to dangerous 'tipping points'… Read More

Babies are able to identify objects as ‘spiders’ or ‘snakes’

Scientists have recently discovered that the fear of spiders and snakes is hereditary and babies… Read More

New Hope To Find MH370: Scientists develop new method to locate time and location that objects fall into our oceans

Scientists "motivated by a desire to gain more knowledge about the incident involving flight MH370"… Read More

The time of the day when you are most creative, according to science

Sometimes people with even higher intellectual abilities struggle at problem-solving and little do they realize… Read More

Thousands join March for Science to fight ‘alternative facts’

WASHINGTON: Thousands of people joined a global March for Science on Saturday with Washington the… Read More

Mona Lisa’s smile decoded: Science says she’s happy

PARIS: The subject of centuries of scrutiny and debate, Mona Lisa's famous smile is routinely… Read More

Off-label antidepressant use not backed by science: study

PARIS: Most off-label use of antidepressants is not backed by evidence that the drugs will… Read More

Children of less-privileged parents deprived of decent maths or science education in Pakistan: report

Schools in Pakistan are producing unacceptably low levels of learning outcomes in maths and science,… Read More

2016 – The world in pictures

The year 2016 has been a turbulent year to say the least as the world… Read More

5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1… An extra second to see out 2016

PARIS: As if 2016 has not been long enough, the year's dying minute will last… Read More

Climate change affects nearly all life on Earth

MIAMI: Most life on Earth is already being changed by the warming climate, even though… Read More

Scientists seek to map all human cells in vast atlas

LONDON: Scientists launched a global initiative on Friday to map out and describe every cell in… Read More

Is violence in our genes? team of scientists finds out!

Nature or nurture? The quest to understand why humans kill one another has occupied the… Read More