Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a kinetic energy generator which derives electrical energy from the vibrations and movements that occur within its environment.

The mayor of one of China’s showpiece economic cities has urged his 11 million residents to stop buying cars in a bid to ease worsening traffic and pollution woes, state media reported on Friday.

The world is smaller than we thought – by five millimetres.

They’re flush with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a recently-opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet.

It looks like a tiny wagon wheel: Scanning tunneling microscope images published in the journal Angewandte Chemie depict giant molecules with a diameter of 7 nm, whose “hub”, “spokes”, and “rim” are clearly recognizable.

NASA said it is recycling two used spacecraft to lead new robotic missions to study comets and planets around other stars.

Beijing’s long-suffering taxi-drivers are in the cross-hairs once again — with shaved heads to be banned from the driving seat ahead of next year’s Beijing Olympics, a report said Thursday.

In the Russian city of Ekaterinburg there is a monument to the QWERTY keyboard. From a distance it looks like white stones scattered across the lawn. But when you get closer you can clearly see that the boulders are keys and the lawn is the board.  Amazing photos.

Marcia and Millie Biggs were hard to tell apart when they were born within minutes of each other a year ago. But the twin sisters are growing up in a delightfully different way.

Ice-covered Greenland really was green a half-million or so years ago, covered with forests in a climate much like that of Sweden and eastern Canada today.

The City that Never Sleeps and Makes a Lot of Noise has had to turn it down a notch after a tougher new noise code took effect this week. But where there are 8,000,000 New Yorkers, can decibels really drop?