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One-fifth of the world's plants - the foundation of life on Earth - are at risk of extinction, a study concludes. Researchers have sampled almost 4,000 species, and conclude that 22% should be cl...

Web search terms are a good predictor of the success of films, songs and video games even weeks ahead of release, researchers say. The findings echo a study in April showing that the number of me...

Exclusive breastfeeding for six months wards off baby infections, further evidence suggests. Regardless of other factors, such as good healthcare and vaccination programmes, breastfeeding still gi...

The company unveiled its tablet computer to much anticipation at its developer conference, DEVCON, in San Francisco. This is the first business-centric device in the tablet market. It is seen as...

Pre-orders for Apple Inc's iPhone 4 in China have exceeded 200,000 units since the handsets went on sale on Saturday, China Unicom said, adding that it has stopped taking online orders because of st...

  The United Arab Emirates is "very optimistic" about reaching an agreement in a dispute with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion before an official deadline, a top Abu Dhabi official said. The...

Apple has embarked on a legal battle over the right to use the word "pod". The row has come about because of a projector called Video Pod currently being developed by start-up Sector Labs. When ...

Neanderthals were keen on innovation and technology and developed tools all on their own, scientists say. A new study challenges the view that our close relatives could advance only through contac...

The Russian Soyuz TMA-18 with three crew members on board has landed safely at 09:22 Moscow time (0522 GMT) on the Kazakh steppe, China's Xinhua news agency quoted the Mission Control center outside...

  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a $100 million gift to the beleaguered public schools of Newark, New Jersey, to help improve public education in a city he has no connection to. The...

A fossilised flower found in Patagonia by an Argentinean team is shedding light on the origins of sunflowers. The large flower is highly unusual because most plant fossils are just pollen grains. ...

There may be a very good reason why people clutch a painful area of their body after receiving an injury, according to a study. Touching the affected area allows a picture of the body to form in t...

Three crew members have returned to the International Space Station after the Russian Soyuz capsule due to take them home failed to undock. The two Russians and one American had been due to retur...

Drivers distracted by talking or texting on cell phones killed an estimated 16,000 people from 2001 to 2007, U.S. researchers reported. The estimate, one of the first scientific attempts to quan...

A widely-used diabetes drug should be pulled from the market, European regulators say. Avandia is used to control blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients. It was licensed 10 years ago and...

A fifth child has died in Peru in an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats, say health officials. The death in the northern Amazon region brings the total number of people killed in the outbr...

  Dell Inc Chief Executive Michael Dell showed off a new seven-inch tablet and said the computer maker is on track to bring in more than $60 billion in revenue this year. Dell appeared on stage...

Humans may have originally caught malaria from gorillas, scientists say. Until now, it was thought that the human malaria parasite split off from a chimpanzee parasite when humans and chimpanzees ...

Achieving 19.06 million TEUs throughput in the first eight months of 2010, has put the Port of Shanghai ahead of Singapore Port and as the world's largest container port currently. Recent statist...

The US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times during the first six months of 2010. During the same timeframe the UK government put in over 1,000 such requests. This is just two...

The sharp growth in extremist websites is making recruitment much easier for al-Qaeda, according to Interpol head Ronald Noble. "The threat is global, it is virtual and it is on our doorsteps," he...

Twitter has fixed a security flaw on its popular social media website after a cyber attack sent some users to Japanese porn websites. Twitter, which allows users to broadcast short messages of 140...

  Nokia said it would delay again its flagship smartphone N8 model, hitting its shares on the day new chief executive Stephen Elop started at the helm of the world's top cellphone maker. The N8...

Scientists have uncovered mechanisms that allow plants to thrive in highly radioactive environments like Chernobyl. They analysed seeds from soybean and flax grown near the site of the Chernobyl n...

Scientists fear migratory birds may be spreading hard-to-treat infections after discovering seagulls can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Portuguese researchers analysed 57 samples of dropping...

Cars could soon be ringing the emergency services themselves if they are involved in a crash. Sensors embedded in future vehicles could also let emergency services work out the severity of the cra...

A research team reports new findings of stone age tools that suggest humans came "out of Africa" by land earlier than has been thought. Geneticists estimate that migration from Africa to South-Eas...

Social networking website Facebook said it is pushing deeper into the mobile phones sector, but denied an Internet report that it will build its own phone. Privately held Facebook has more than 50...

People who think more about whether they are right have more cells in an area of the brain known as the frontal lobes. UK scientists, writing in Science, looked at how brain size varied depending ...

Foreign automakers may have to share innovative electric-vehicle technology with Chinese companies in exchange for access to the nation's growing light-vehicle market, The Wall Street Journal report...