A woman’s face is most alluring at the height of her cycle.

Women who make the room light up with their good looks may have a secret up their sleeve.

What price for the perfect woman? On eBay, the online auction site, she will probably set you back about £30 - about the same as a designer handbag or a year’s supply of McDonalds Happy Meal toys.

A cheap handheld computer designed by Indian scientists for poor folk has been launched after a delay of nearly three years.

By the year 2010, scientists predict we will be immersed in a sea of miniature computers.

Many of us carry three or four digital devices with us, according to Simon Moore of Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory, but soon that figure will be in the hundreds.

Scientists have issued a weather forecast for the oily oceans of Titan, Saturn’s major moon and a target for a space probe landing next year.

Fiction could become reality as scientists plan to ‘terraform’ the fourth rock from the Sun.

Finding life on Mars has proved an elusive dream for decades. But scientists now believe they may be able to do it for themselves - by turning the Red Planet into a blue world with streams, green fields and fresh […]

The co-founder of Microsoft is donating a slice of his fortune to the search for alien life.

Paul Allen is donating $7.5 million to…

A device that could be the forerunner of a creativity-boosting ‘thinking cap’ has been built and tested by scientists.

Laser Breakthrough Makes the Future Shine Bright

A “mere” table-top laser, but this system has recently matched the largest lasers in the world for peak power of a single beam.

Stripped of their reproductive role, the males, of this species, ceased to exist millions of years ago.

Seventy-five years ago, in the title of their classic send-up of how- to books, James Thurber and E.B. White famously asked, “Is Sex Necessary?”

Andrew Schuerger, from the University of Florida seems to think so. “Life as we know it is likely to exist on Mars - because we put it there, he claims”.

Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor.

Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses…

Sex stimulates the brain and makes people more intelligent, according to a top German researcher.

In the past, global systems have taken decades, even centuries, to develop. Most existing global systems are clunky in their operation, each having to struggle through a maze of conflicting regulations as they cross from one jurisdiction to another. Few global standards are in place, and only a select few have a global authority for […]

Theorists are working madly to develop the new “Theory of Everything” that will tie together all the forces in the Universe into one unified explanation.

Experimenters are also working to come up with ways to test these various theories, and narrow down the ones that actually predict what happens in Nature.

Space Adventures announced today that Gregory Olsen will be their next private space tourism client. He’s expected to launch for the International Space Station on board a Soyuz rocket some time in 2005, maybe before.

Protein hydrogels can be genetically engineered to promote the growth of specific cells.

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a new class of artificial proteins that can assemble themselves into a gel and encourage the growth of selected cell types.

John Graham, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, explains.

The length of a star’s life depends on how fast it uses up its nuclear fuel. Our sun, in many ways an average sort of star, has been around for nearly five billion years and has enough fuel to keep going for another five […]

Europe’s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft finally lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 0717 GMT on 2 March - five days after its scheduled launch date.

ICANN oversees the Domain Name System — such as “.com,” “.net” and “.org” — that allows computers to find each other in cyberspace. It is sanctioned by the United States government, which funded the Internet’s early development.

Some countries and activists argue that ICANN is too close to the United States and want the United Nations […]

While children born very premature often develop behavioral and social problems in their teen years, these children report a normal quality of life in early adulthood, according to findings from an ongoing study.

Human studies have shown that brain-machine interfaces could allow paralyzed people to operate complex devices by thought alone.

American biochemists want to power airplanes with soya oil to help reduce consumption of petroleum fuels that are driving global warming.

The largest ocean wave recorded yet — a mammoth 170m in height — has been documented off the tiny, low-lying Western Pacific nation of Palau by two scientists studying seawater temperatures.

A chainsaw-wielding robotic submarine is roving beneath Lois Lake in British Columbia, Canada. But it is not a prop left over from a sci-fi movie.