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The scale of the delay and cost overrun blighting Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has been laid bare by a panel called in to review the project. The successor to Hubble will probably cost at le...
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The scale of the delay and cost overrun blighting Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has been laid bare by a panel called in to review the project. The successor to Hubble will probably cost at le...
The world's leading mobile phone makers are losing market share to non-brand manufacturers, according to research. Analysts at Gartner say smaller, Asian companies accounted for a third of worldwi...
The Sun's rays can "burn" whales' skin, just like they can damage human skin, according to a team of researchers. The scientists studied more than 150 whales in the Gulf of California. By taking...
Australians want to spend less time at work, according to a new survey prompting calls for caps to be put on the working week. More than 1,700 people were quizzed on their work-life balance in a ...
Forensic analysis of the debris left after a nuclear explosion could yield crucial evidence about the composition and the origin of the bomb, say scientists. A US team examined Trinitite, the glas...
Prolonged use of paracetamol and other painkillers during pregnancy may pose a health risk to baby boys, warn experts. Danish research suggests the drugs raise the risk of undescended testicles in...
Deaths from high-risk prostate cancer can be cut by giving men radiation treatment as well as hormonal therapy, research by Cardiff University has shown. A trial of 1,200 men with prostate cancer ...
Tiny changes to an "alarm" protein which responds to infections may explain why some with HIV can control their condition without drugs. Around one in 300 people with HIV are "controllers", and sc...
Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users' information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants. Google will no longer le...
Taking vitamin E could slightly increase the risk of a particular type of stroke, a study says. The British Medical Journal study found that for every 1,250 people there is the chance of one extra...
A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet's nucleus. Mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, br...
Dell Inc will shift thousands of its employees off Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry and over to Dell's smartphones. The money-saving switch affects the roughly 25,000 Dell employees who carry...
Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc is set to start selling its first tablet computers in January next year, joining other tech rivals to compete with Apple Inc in the fast-growing market. An Asustek of...
Differences in the brain structure of people carrying an "autism gene" may offer clues to how the condition develops, say US scientists. Scans revealed children carrying the gene variant appeared ...
Babies who undergo a difficult birth and are delivered using forceps are more likely to develop problems such as aggression during childhood compared with those born by Caesarean section, according ...
The children of mothers who ate a lot of peanuts while pregnant may be at an increased risk of developing an allergy to the nut -- and the more peanuts the mothers ate, the greater the chances, a st...
Visitors to a Stockholm hotel will be able to use mobile phones instead of keys to unlock the doors to their rooms. Assa Abloy AB, the world's largest maker of door locks, has launched a pilot in ...
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong opened one of the world's largest integrated solar manufacturing facilities, a Norwegian investment, in Tuas. The S$2.5 billion facility, built by Renewab...
Forcing food manufacturers to cut salt levels in processed food could help cut heart disease rates, claim Australian researchers. A theoretical study suggests mandatory salt limits could help redu...
Spanish women are the most flirtatious in the world online, according to a survey by a dating website which said the results belie lingering perceptions of a socially conservative country. Badoo.c...
Apple controlled 95 percent of the emerging market for tablet computers with its iPads in the July-to-September quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics (SA) said. The competition in the market...
A US official has told the BBC that suspect packages from Yemen were intercepted in September, in what may have been a dry run for last week's foiled parcel bomb plot. The shipments from Yemen to...
Scientists say they have made a landmark discovery which could pave the way for new drugs to beat illnesses like the common cold. Until now experts had thought that antibodies could only tackle vi...
From Jan 1, 2011 all hypermarkets, supermarkets, departmental stores, pharmacies, fast food restaurants, nasi kandar restaurants and convenience stores (including at petrol stations) will be asked t...
Google's Android software platform rose to No. 2 spot globally on the booming smartphone market in the third quarter, research firm Canalys said. Nokia's Symbian continued to lead the market wit...
A team of researchers have been trying to identify how jellyfish may benefit from marine ecosystems destabilised by climate change and overfishing. There is concern that a rise in jellyfish number...