U.S. medical scientists said they might have discovered the mechanism responsible for memory loss observed in Alzheimer’s disease.

Dutch scientists have discovered bacteria that thrive in oxygen starved environments might be useful in delivering gene therapy to cancer patients.

Spacemen are to visit Edinburgh to talk about how views of the Earth from space have changed in the past 50 years.

Alongside actor Robert Carlyle they were the stars of the BBC’s Hamish Macbeth, but Plockton’s famous palm trees are set to disappear.

An archaeologist using radar technology on Monday said he has found the outline of what he believes is a 1000-year-old Viking longship under a pub car park in north-west England.

From Futurama to Prey, our view of the world ahead has become tainted with dismal prospects for a positive future.

YORK (Reuters) – Resistance is futile. The more we try to fight off a craving for chocolate, the more our desire for it grows, a British researcher said on Tuesday.

U.S. physicists have, for the first time, coaxed two atoms to communicate with a type of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein once called spooky.

New HIV diagnoses among MSM under age 30 have increased by 33 percent during the past six years, the health department reported today, from 374 in 2001 to almost 500 in 2006.

At least 20 tigers have resurfaced in a tropical rainforest in western India, almost three decades after it was thought that poaching had wiped them out there, experts said on Tuesday.

While it’s still a teaser at the moment, John Nack (Senior Product Manager for Photoshop) has confirmed the development of Photoshop Express.

In February we talked about a Pee Powered battery that was in the testing phase in Japan. Now it would seem they have made it to the store for the Japanese to buy and use.

A lightweight solar-powered plane has smashed the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight.

A number of tombs dating back 1,700 years have been unearthed in Kuqa County in northwest China Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.