Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have built the
smallest radio yet — a single carbon nanotube one ten-thousandth the
diameter of a human hair that requires only a battery and earphones to
tune in to your favorite station.

Norwegian researchers have discovered a second rare fossil in the Arctic of a pliosaur, a giant reptile described by experts as the "T-Rex of the oceans", the project leader said on Tuesday.

U.S. physicists have discovered a new electronic property in lodestone, also known as magnetite — one of the most studied magnetic minerals on Earth.

NEW YORK – Three-quarters of Americans, the world’s largest polluters, plan to be more environmentally responsible in 2008 by reducing household energy or recycling more, a survey showed on Monday.

A Japanese company Tuesday unveiled a new device that will allow people "speak" through their ear so they can use their mobile telephones in noisy places.

Women with short legs may have a higher risk of liver disease, with both probably caused by diet or other factors early in life, British researchers reported on Monday.

Adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, face more financial crises, a U.S. expert warns.

A jet of highly charged radiation from a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is blasting another galaxy nearby — an act of galactic violence that astronomers said yesterday they have never seen before.

Two mammals believed new to science have been found on the latest expedition to a virtual lost world found in Indonesia’s Papua in 2005, Conservation International (CI) said Monday.

A shattered asteroid may have sprayed Earth with high-speed debris 470 million years ago and spurred one of the biggest bursts of biodiversity in Earth’s history, rather than wiping life out.

So here’s a question you don’t hear every day: How many tastes can a person taste?