Searching across the Tibetan plateau, paleontologists have discovered a species of woolly rhinoceros that may be an ancestor of the great ice age beasts that roamed the plains of North America, Europe and Asia.
Shantanu Gangwar, a Class 12 student, was pained to see his blind friends bump into walls, furniture and other objects. So he invented a smart walking stick that gives early warning of an obstacle.
An Israeli scientist won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering quasicrystals, a material in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats.
Three men whose work helped uncover how the immune system works, and in so doing identified three milestones in an evolutionary path extending 2 billion years into the past, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
A new highly energy-efficient light bulb that won a $10 million government contest is set to go on sale in retail outlets just in time for Earth Day, according to Philips Electronics, the maker of the new bulb.
An all-nighter tweaks the brain, weakening people's willpower and making them more likely to succumb to double bacon cheeseburgers, a new study suggests. The results help explain the link researchers have noted between sleep loss and obesity.
Compound acts by novel mechanism and is effective in mice, offering a potential new weapon in the fight against antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis
Three astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discovering that the universe is apparently being blown apart by a mysterious force that cosmologists now call dark energy, a finding that has thrown the fate of the universe and indeed the nature of physics into doubt.
