China has announced the completion of the first railway line to Tibet – one of the world’s highest train routes.

British scientists claim they can grow new tissue in minutes, a development they say may one day allow doctors to make tissue implants at the bedside.

Antarctica is melting, adding to the inexorable rise in global sea levels, endangering millions of lives and whole economies, leading scientists said on Monday.

Two new mouse experiments may show how to obtain human embryonic stem cells without ethical hurdles, a step that could allow federal funding for such research, scientists reported Sunday.

South Korea may be on the cusp of the next big thing in video games. The country claims to have come up with a new piece of software that will allow the same computer game to be played on a variety of devices.

Steven Spielberg, the most influential visionary in US films, is involved in patenting what Hollywood has been dreaming of for decades – three-dimensional movies that can be viewed without using special glasses.

The bar is packed, the floor is wet, and dozens of glassy-eyed young people are squeezed around tables trying to lob Ping-Pong balls into cups of beer.