Pear-Shaped Genes Uncovered
The parts of our DNA which may influence body shape, including the classic "apple" or "pear" shape in women, have been revealed. A UK study in Nature Genetics found the locations of 13 genes which...
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The parts of our DNA which may influence body shape, including the classic "apple" or "pear" shape in women, have been revealed. A UK study in Nature Genetics found the locations of 13 genes which...
Engineers at Google have tested a self-driving car on the streets of California, the company has announced. The cars use video cameras mounted on the roof, radar sensors and a laser range finder t...
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has docked successfully with the International Space Station (ISS). The men will complete a five-month tour of duty aboar...
Representatives from about 200 countries wrapped up a meeting in China on climate change and said they had moved closer to defining what could be achieved at a later conference. The week-long tal...
A group of Chinese scientists and explorers is looking for international help to mount a new search for the country's answer to Bigfoot, known locally as the "Yeren," or "wild man." Over the years...
At least three foreign athletes have fallen victim to Malaria and Dengue, forcing them to pull out of the 2010 Commonwealth Games here. Nigerian table tennis player were suspected to be seriously...
Microsoft Corp has licensed some technology relating to rival Palm Inc's smartphones, the latest move in a complex web of deals and litigation in the fast-growing phone sector. The world's largest...
Influenza A/H1N1 was removed from the list of statutorily notifiable infectious diseases of Hong Kong, Xinhua cited a spokesman from Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health as sayin...
The adage "men perspire, women glow" is correct, according to Japanese researchers, who found men are much more efficient at sweating. Women unused to physical exercise had the worst sweating resp...
Shares of Adobe soared in heavy trading Thursday on a report that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed a possible buyout of the company. A report posted in the "Bits" blog of The New York Times ...
Virus-infected computers that pose a risk to other PCs should be blocked from the net, a senior researcher at software giant Microsoft suggests. The proposal is based on lessons from public healt...
China will be able to send humans to the moon ahead of India, a Chinese scientist said Thursday, following the successful launch of a second unmanned moon orbiter, according to Yonhap news agency. ...
Saturn's rings may have formed when a large moon with an icy mantle and rocky core spiralled into the nascent planet. A US scientist has suggested that the tidal forces ripped off some of the moon...
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has announced the list of 145 new species discovered in the Mekong River region since 2009 as a proof for the "biological treasure" of the river, Vietnam news ag...
Facebook has introduced new features aimed at giving users more control over their information and who can see it. There are yet more new features being added to the updated Facebook The ...
Google has denied Oracle's complaint of copyright infringement in development of Android smartphone software and asked a U.S. court to dismiss Oracle's lawsuit, court documents showed. Oracle sued...
A potentially fatal dengue-fever like virus has emerged in Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency (VNA)reported, citing the Health Ministry. The Chikungunya virus is thought to be transmitted by the Asian ...
Three scientists have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing new ways of linking carbon atoms together. The Nobel was awarded to Professors Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Ak...
Babies are less likely to get flu if their mothers have had the vaccine during pregnancy, a US study says. Researchers examined 1,169 women from an American Indian tribe, finding it reduced infect...
Two scientists have shared this year's Nobel Prize for Physics for their "groundbreaking" work on a material with amazing properties. Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both at Manchester Unive...
A diet rich in walnuts and walnut oil may prepare the body to deal better with stress, according to a team of Penn State researchers who looked at how these foods, which contain polyunsaturated fats...
U.S. teens are not as reckless as some people might think when it comes to sex, and they are much more likely to use condoms than people over 40, according to a survey released on Monday that could ...
LG Electronics Inc said on Monday that it had scrapped a plan to launch a tablet computer based on Google Inc's Android 2.2 operation system known as "Froyo," a decision that may delay the rollout o...
Putting thousands of jellyfish in a blender to make a smoothie sounds like the start of bad joke. In fact, it's one way to source ingredients for a new generation of solar power solutions that could...
British scientist Robert Edwards, the man who devised the fertility treatment IVF, has been awarded this year's Nobel prize for medicine. His efforts in the 1950s, 60s and 70s led to the birth of ...
The FBI says it has cracked a major international cyber crime network after more than 90 suspected members of the ring were arrested in the US. The suspects worked as so-called mules for fraudster...