Beijing claims early air victory
01/12/2008 14:04
 Beijing says it has already reached its target number of 256 "blue-sky days" this year, with the help of ambitious environmental measures for the Olympic Games.
CSIR develops low-cost ARVs
01/12/2008 12:47
 The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has developed a low-cost method of producing ARVs, and is looking for partners to produce the drugs.
ARV bungle killed 330?000
Interpol taps into YouTube
01/12/2008 12:41
 Global police agency Interpol is combining old-fashioned police work with the hugely popular online social networks to track fugitives and solve crimes.
Electric hybrid bicycle unveiled
01/12/2008 12:41
 Japan's Sanyo Electric Co has unveiled a new electric hybrid bicycle that can triple the user's pedal power to make it easier to climb hills.
100m record as low as 9.48s?
01/12/2008 12:41
 Could a male 100m sprinter one day get Usain Bolt's 100m world record of 9.69s down to an incredible 9.48s? An American scientist thinks it's possible.
Bolt breaks 100m world record
Bolt could have run 9.52sec
New treatment for food allergies
01/12/2008 10:41
 A team of scientists from across Europe are embarking on new research to develop a treatment for food allergy.
Obesity fuels spike in diabetes
01/12/2008 10:41
 The prevalence of
diabetes worldwide will far outstrip even the sharp increase
currently projected unless rising trends of obesity are
controlled, health experts said.
Mumbai blogs provide raw view
01/12/2008 08:58
 When gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city's landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to the television for news, but to each other.
Shuttle returns safely to Earth
01/12/2008 08:10
 The US space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven have returned safely to Earth at a California air base concluding a 16-day mission at the International Space Station.
Nasa delays Endeavour's landing
Space shuttle heads home
'Space family' says goodbye
Nasa delays Endeavour's landing
30/11/2008 16:47
 Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts will remain in orbit a little longer than planned, waiting for the weather to improve.
Climate change 'much faster'
30/11/2008 13:50
 Earth's climate appears to be changing more quickly and deeply than a benchmark UN report for policymakers predicted, top scientists have said.
Forests under threat - study
Finance crisis burden on climate
150 whales die in stranding
30/11/2008 13:43
 A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.
Rescued whales find pod off Aus
Ancient boat found in Black Sea
29/11/2008 21:15
 A well-preserved wooden dugout canoe, likely dating back to the prehistoric age, has been discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea.
'Green is good for economies'
29/11/2008 20:10
 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says investing in green technologies could help remedy the global financial crisis.
Japan imports whale meat
29/11/2008 17:25
 Japan has recently purchased whale meat from Iceland, marking the first such imports in 17 years, it has been reported.
Amazon destruction up slightly
29/11/2008 14:08
 Destruction of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest has appeared to accelerate slightly over the past year after slowing since 2004, the government says.
Meteor debris found in Canada
29/11/2008 12:10
 Scientists say they have found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month.
ISS 'in fantastic shape'
29/11/2008 09:59
 Space shuttle Endeavour has departed the international space station, ending a visit that left the complex with more modern and deluxe living quarters for bigger crews.
Space shuttle heads home
'Space family' says goodbye
Forests under threat - study
28/11/2008 22:14
 A study shows that forests are extremely vulnerable to climate change that is set to bring more wildfires and floods and quick action is needed.
'It was a nightmare'
28/11/2008 21:04
 Thousands of people around the world are condemning the Mumbai attacks on popular social network Facebook with some victims even recalling their ordeal.
Hostages killed at Mumbai centre
Explosions, gunshots at Taj
Space shuttle heads home
28/11/2008 18:21
 The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven have left the international space station after performing a "home makeover".
'Space family' says goodbye
Videogames to go on vacation
28/11/2008 15:22
 With the holiday travel season approaching, videogame makers are making sure they have games and consoles handy for trains, planes and cars - and so are holiday destinations.
Finance crisis burden on climate
28/11/2008 14:15
 The global financial crisis will make it harder for countries to agree on an ambitious new treaty to combat global warming, the UN climate chief said.
Light play for perfect cat's eye
28/11/2008 14:15
 Scientists have developed a recipe of materials to create optical illusions - using invisibility to increase visibility - which could lead to the manufacturing of a perfect cat's eye.
Hawking gets top research post
28/11/2008 12:25
 Internationally renowned
physicist Stephen Hawking has been appointed distinguished research chair at Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Hawking to retire from post
'Space family' says goodbye
28/11/2008 12:24
 Seven astronauts piled into space shuttle Endeavour for the return trip to Earth, leaving their counterparts at the international space station.
Thanksgiving celebrated in space
Longer life for space station?
Astronauts finish last spacewalk
Study: 4 genes drive metabolism
28/11/2008 10:47
 Four genetic variations
appear to determine the speed at which people burn up food,
researchers said.
Global coal damage costs €360bn
28/11/2008 10:47
 The use of coal for energy production causes at least €360bn worth of damage to human health and the environment every year, Greenpeace said.
What've you done for the planet?
Zero-gravity cup for urine drink
28/11/2008 10:47
 Future space
travellers may be drinking their own urine, thanks to the
International Space Station's new water recycler, but they can
now do so with a touch of class.
Thanksgiving celebrated in space
Urine recycler passes test
Scientists crack iceberg mystery
28/11/2008 08:02
 US scientists have figured out
how icebergs break off Antarctica and Greenland, a finding that
may help predict rising sea levels as the climate warms.
Ban all whale hunting, says Tutu
28/11/2008 08:02
 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
has launched a new global anti-whaling campaign, which
seeks to ban all whaling.
What've you done for the planet?
28/11/2008 08:02
 The world's nations will gather in Poland to wrangle over a deal to slash greenhouse gases, but citizens are already pondering what they can do to atone for their sins of emission.
Africans unite over climate
Obama wants 'Green House'
2 °C rise could spark meltdown
2 °C rise could spark meltdown
27/11/2008 23:06
 A less than 2 °C rise in global temperatures might be sufficient to spark a meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice.
'We'll need 2 planets by 2030'
WWF launches CO2 calculator
Oceans rise 1cm a decade
Obama wants 'Green House'
27/11/2008 22:57
 US president-elect Barack Obama says that he hopes to make the White House environmentally friendly and wants Americans to follow suit.
I'm not worried, says Obama
Obama girls to make their beds
Fish sex an electrifying affair
27/11/2008 15:27
 Sex among electric fish in the Congo River is a rather charged business, according a to new study reporting on an unusual experiment.
Thanksgiving celebrated in space
27/11/2008 14:25
 Like millions of Americans, the seven Endeavour astronauts and three space station crew members enjoyed a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Distraction jams seniors' memory
27/11/2008 13:14
 Brain scans of older people in a noisy lab machine give biological backing to the idea that distraction hampers memory with aging, researchers reported.
'Evidence' of Saturn moon water
27/11/2008 11:05
 Huge plumes of water vapour and ice particles are spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus in a way that suggests they come from liquid water below the icy surface.
Seeds for life on Saturn moon
Does Saturn's moon have a ring?
Water on Saturn moon
Better Red than Dead in Jordan
27/11/2008 11:05
 The country Jordan is pinning its hopes for liquid salvation on a scheme with no parallel: hauling water from the Red Sea to replenish the Dead Sea.
Conjoined twins to be separated
27/11/2008 09:05
 A set of one-month-old girls believed to be the first known American Indian conjoined twins, are doing well and will be separated, doctors say.
Siamese twins separated
Conjoined twin dies after op
Billions for space missions
27/11/2008 09:05
 Defying the global economic crisis, European ministers are pledging €10bn to an ambitious list of 30 space missions.
Non-mating bears both female
26/11/2008 22:53
 A Japanese zoo puzzled by its lack of success in getting two polar bears to mate has discovered the reason - both are female.
Surge in online job-seeking
26/11/2008 22:53
 As the global economy worsens, more and more people of all ages are seeking jobs online through networks like LinkedIn and Xing.
Job hunting? Go online
The ABCs of online networking
Scientist offers 'olive branch'
26/11/2008 21:42
 Suspended scientist Dr Anthony Turton, whose conference paper on the water crisis was pulled, says he has extended an "olive branch" to the CSIR.
Controversy over water report
Tool locates meteorite craters
26/11/2008 21:42
 A Canadian researcher has unveiled a new computer tool for locating hundreds more meteorite craters on earth from even the tiniest of clues.
Huge meteor crashes in Canada
Meteorite hit 'fast and hard'
Mobile apps add spice to life
26/11/2008 20:02
 Touchscreen phone users
are discovering that much of the fun in their devices stems
from easily downloadable applications.
'iPhone' mistaken for 'sex'
Send free SMSs worldwide
Longer life for space station?
26/11/2008 20:02
 The European Space Agency hopes the International Space Station, which may not survive beyond 2015, will 'live' until at least 2020.
Astronauts finish last spacewalk
Shuttle crew begins makeover
LA to become 1st US solar city
26/11/2008 18:07
 Los Angeles wants to become the United States' first solar city by generating 10% of its electricity through solar power.
Cave bears killed by Ice Age
26/11/2008 16:11
 Giant cave bears froze to
death during the last Ice Age,
according to a study that cleared human hunters of
driving them to extinction many years later.
Vatican set to go green
26/11/2008 15:12
 The Vatican is set
to go green with the activation of a new solar energy
system and a commitment to use renewable energy for 20% of its needs by 2020.
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