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Chinese scientists said on Friday they had bred the country's first genetically engineered rhesus monkey, a step that could speed up the development of cures for diseases ranging from cancer to Alzh...

Microsoft has announced a 51% rise in first-quarter profit, thanks to higher sales of its flagship Windows and Office software. Net profit for the three months to September came in at $5.4bn (£3....

China has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's supercomputers. The title has gone to China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer that is capable of carrying out more than 2.5 thousand trillion calc...

A US researcher has said he plans to electronically record and interpret dreams. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers said they have developed a system capable of recording higher-level bra...

Taller men may have a higher risk of getting testicular cancer, say experts in the United States. After looking at data on more than 10,000 men, researchers found that for every extra two inches o...

The Niah Caves, located some 120 kilometres from Miri city, should be another world heritage site in Sarawak for its uniqueness, Chief Minister, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said. Speaking to launch...

Yahoo Mail is getting its biggest redesign since 2005 to make it a message hub for its 279 million users. At the centre of the revamp is a plan to make the communications system much more compatib...

An injunction issued by the US district court in New York has effectively shut down LimeWire, one of the internet's biggest file-sharing sites. It ends four years of wrangling between the privatel...

Leaders of a global project to catalogue differences in human DNA say they have successfully mapped 95% of all variations. The 1000 Genomes Project aims to sequence and compare the DNA of 2,500 in...

A new vaccine against the polio virus has helped reduce the number of cases by more than 90%. Research published online in the journal The Lancet, shows that the new vaccine is significantly bett...

Modern humans could have reached East Asia much earlier than believed, according to new evidence. An international team analysed fossil teeth and part of a jaw unearthed in southern China in 2007....

Apple Inc said that it would delay release of its eagerly anticipated white iPhone again, this time until next spring. The latest version of the popular handset, the iPhone 4, was released in June...

Two bullet trains glided silently out of a gleaming new station to inaugurate China's latest high speed rail line, as officials boasted of setting world records using domestic technology. Many, bu...

One fifth of animal and plant species are under the threat of extinction, a global conservation study has warned. Scientists who compiled the Red List of Threatened Species say the proportion of s...

China put another high-speed railway into operation Tuesday morning, which links Shanghai, the country's economic hub, and Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, China's Xinhua news ag...

Microsoft Corp's resident visionary and departing software chief has urged the company to move on from its Windows and Office roots and imagine a "post-PC world" of simple, global Web devices. Fiv...

After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The ...

The discovery of "taste receptors" in the lungs rather than on the tongue could point the way to new medicines for asthma, it is suggested. Experiments in mice revealed that bombarding the recepto...

Apple Inc said it will no longer ship Mac computers with Adobe Systems Inc's Flash player pre-installed, as the company continues to erect barriers to the software. Apple's decision does not ban F...

Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc said U.S. health officials have rejected its experimental obesity pill, citing cancer risks. The drugmaker said Food and Drug Administration officials requested an indepe...

Facebook, Amazon and Zynga will invest in a fund to help entrepreneurs develop applications and services for a new era of the social web. The lion's share of the sFund's $250m (£160m) will come ...

Difficult-to-read fonts make for better learning, according to scientists. The finding is about to be published in the international journal Cognition. Researchers at Princeton University employ...

There are oases of water-rich soil that could sustain astronauts on the Moon, according to Nasa. Scientists studied the full results of an experiment that smashed a rocket and a probe into a lunar...

A daily aspirin tablet may help prevent bowel cancer, a study suggests. Oxford University found it cut cases by a quarter and deaths by more than a third in a review of 14,000 patients. Aspirins...

Adding to previous evidence, researchers have found that black patients with heart disease are less likely to survive than white patients, even those who are younger. Race-related differences in s...

Almost 250,000 Germans have told Google to blur pictures of their homes on the Street View service. The German government insisted that people get the chance to make the request as a condition of ...

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the thinnest, lightest Mac laptop yet, fusing features from its popular iPhone and iPad with its traditional line of personal computers. Apple, whose computers ha...

Online marketplace eBay has reported better-than-expected profits, with earnings boosted by growth in its payment service PayPal. The firm posted a net profit of $432m (£273m) in the third quarte...

One of the CEOs of Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has hit back at Apple chief Steve Jobs' critique of the tablet market. On Monday, Mr Jobs said that a raft of 7in tablet-computers wou...

Leopards' spots and tigers' stripes are a camouflage closely tied to their habitats, researchers say. A UK team examined the flank markings of 37 species of wild cats in a bid to understand the sp...