People take part in a group yoga practice in New York’s Times Square, yesterday. The ‘Solstice in Times Square’ event brought out thousands...
People take part in a group yoga practice in New York’s Times Square, yesterday. The ‘Solstice in Times Square’ event brought out thousands...
By Genevra Pittman People can safely add a few nuts to their diet — or replace other foods with the high-unsaturated fat, high-fibre...
LOS ANGELES: Every dog has its day, and for Afghan pooch Aiden, today is for dancing lessons while cats Lucky and Missy are...
By Reed Stevenson Techies are trumpeting a so-called virtual currency called Bitcoin that behaves in some ways like traditional currencies. Financial experts are...
Shuttlecocks on a badminton court in Indonesia. JAKARTA: Badminton-crazy Indonesia is concerned a deadly bird flu outbreak could claim an unlikely victim —...
Her eyes see nothing, but when Barbara Appel runs her fingers over the face of a Picasso sculpture in New York’s Museum of...
By Azera Parveen Rahman From asking dieticians to draw up cafeteria menus to conducting counselling sessions to keep them fit, multinational companies and...
Washington: Only about 30 percent of people in the US know how to perform CPR. And that statistic makes the story of one...
Biomedical engineer Mark Kendall demonstrates the nanopatch to nurses at Port Moresby hospital. By Kate Kelland When it comes to protecting millions of...
SYDNEY: Breakthrough X-ray research mapping how insulin works at a molecular level could lead to new diabetes treatments and end daily needle jabs...
By Genevra Pittman One-third of people getting a CT scan didn’t know the test exposed their body to radiation, in a new study...
By Kathleen Raven Adults with excessively dry hands were four times more likely than healthy counterparts to fail computerised fingerprint verification tests in...
by Alyssa Rosenberg To celebrate its 110th anniversary, the magazine Popular Mechanics has published a fascinating list of 110 predictions for the next...
by Ian Sample A woman who is paralysed from the neck down has stunned doctors with her extraordinary skill at using a robotic...
by Maria Cheng Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with...
A child affected by Down Syndrome takes part in a dolphin therapy session at the cultural and health centre Nemo in the Belarus...
by Ben Hirschler An experimental vaccine based on a molecule related to DNA protects animals against influenza and may one day offer an...
by Julie Steenhuysen Two international teams of scientists have identified a rare mutation in a gene linked with inflammation that significantly increases the...
