Scientists urgently need to agree on universal criteria for monitoring and assessing land degradation around the world, according to a report.
On Wednesday Intel shifted its Tera-scale Computing Research Program into second gear by demonstrating a 48-core x86 processor. The company is intending to use the new chip as a research platform...
Combining satellite data with mobile phones offers cheap and effective tools for managing fires, says South African scientist Philip Frost. South Africa, like much of the continent, is home to...
An anti-toxin that protects against ricin poisoning is to move into production for the first time. It is the result of eight years of work by researchers at the Defence Science and Technology...
European astronomers announced they had found 32 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system and said on Monday they believe their find means that 40 percent or more of Sun-like stars have...
U.S. researchers have discovered antiviral proteins in cells that naturally fight off influenza infections, a finding that may lead to better ways to make vaccines and protect people against the flu.
Comets from outer space may have created Earth"s atmosphere – not volcanoes spewing out gases from deep within the planet according to the previous theories.
A map designed to show the predicted effects of a 4C rise in global average temperature has been unveiled by the UK government.
Bees see the world almost five times faster than humans, according to new research from scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. This gives bumble-bees the fastest colour vision of all...