Members of the Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists rose on Tuesday to defend colleagues that they said had been targeted for email hacking to sway the outcome of the UN global warming talks. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernment
Experts have unveiled what they claim are the world's first bionic fingers which they hope will transform the lives of people with missing digits.The motor-powered ProDigits have been developed by Touch Bionics, the Livingston, West Lothian company
Saudia Arabia told global warming talks on Monday that trust in climate science had been shaken by leaked emails among experts and called for an international probe. The level of trust is definitely shaken, especially now that we are about to con
Saudi Arabia told global warming talks on Monday that trust in climate science had been shaken by leaked emails among experts, and called for an international probe.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. I remembered thinking, `Whoa, th
Astronomers say they have taken the first direct image of a planet-like object orbiting a star much like our own sun. A similar breakthrough was announced last year, when astronomers unveiled direct images of a single-planet and multiple-planet sys
SAN ANTONIO - Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them. They really are from Mars, I think, said Thomas Park, a professor of biological scien
GENEVA - Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. The nuclear physicists working on the Larg
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