A young girl has been saved from drowning in a swimming pool by new high-tech underwater safety cameras and dramatic footage of the rescue was released today.

While “sticky-fingered” might be a felonious insult for humans, it’s an apt description for geckos, whose hairy feet give them phenomenal powers to hang by one toe on even the slipperiest vertical surfaces.

What makes a human different from a chimpanzee? Not much, but the little genetic differences clearly count for a lot, said scientists who have mapped the complete chimp genome and compared it to the human gene map.

Corporate demand for technology may be pinched by dramatically higher energy costs in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but the eventual rebuilding of New Orleans could take up some of the slack.

Cornell University and Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a method for enabling a computer program to scan text in any of a number of languages, including English and Chinese, and autonomously and without previous information infer the underlying rules of grammar.

The promise of a hydrogen economy, which would lessen dependence on nonrenewable energy sources such as fossil fuels, hinges on the ability to produce and store large amounts of the clean-burning element. New results from experiments on a novel catalyst suggest that it can be used to coax hydrogen from water without the need for [...]

A new brain-scanning technique developed by Melbourne researchers could provide hope for 40,000 Australians suffering from a crippling form of epilepsy by identifying suitable candidates for surgery that can stop their seizures.

The hospital is located aboard a ship called the Anastasis. It’s part of a Christian organization called Mercy Ships, which, since 1978, has been working to bring free medical care to those who have no access to surgical procedures like cleft-lip correction, or cataract and facial tumor removal.