Chocoholics seeking to indulge their passion this Easter will appreciate a British hotel chain’s diet-busting chocolate sandwich, which boasts the added attraction of being dipped in batter and deep-fried.

A mysterious gamma-ray glow that suffuses our galaxy has been tracked down to a set of distinct sources - many of them black holes.

The new work settles a 30-year-old debate about…

NASA develops ‘mind-reading’ system.

A computer program which can read silently spoken words by analysing nerve signals in our mouths and throats, has been developed by NASA.

The Earth may be on the brink of a sixth mass extinction on a par with the five others that have punctuated its history, suggests the strongest evidence yet.

Jumping electric charges could waft breezes of ionised air through microchips, replacing the bulky, noisy fans that cool down today’s computers…

Like a busy urban family, planets rarely get together all at once. Later this month, however, the five so-called naked-eye planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - will reunite in the night sky, giving spectators a unique chance to see Earth’s closest companions in one easy sitting.

More and bigger blackouts lie ahead, unless today’s dumb electricity grid can be transformed into a smart, responsive and self-healing digital network—in short, an “energy internet”

First there was the self-starter in the 1910s, then came the car radio in 1929 and air conditioning in 1940. As time has passed, technological advances have turned cars from merely modes of transportation into breezy, four-wheeled computer and entertainment centers.

Electric windows and locks, T-tops, moonroofs, 8-track players, cassette players, CD players, digital speedometers, anti-lock […]

George Bush’s plan to establish a manned United States base on the Moon by 2020 has been hailed as visionary, but to hear Dennis Hope talk, the president’s behind the times — a Manifest Destiny-style space land grab is already in full swing.