SYDNEY - HUMAN genes remember a sugar hit for two weeks, with prolonged poor eating habits capable of permanently altering DNA, Australian research has found.
SAN FRANCISCO - STEVE Jobs exiting the Apple stage, perhaps not to return, signals a close to an Internet Age era with roots stretching back to the radical hippie movement of the 1960s.
WASHINGTON - IN A breakthrough that could signal a new era for human technology, US and Chinese researchers announced on Thursday they are a step closer to creating an invisibility shield.
In a development made possible by advances in designing complex mathematical commands known as algorithms, engineers at Duke University, North Carolina were able to create what they call 'metamaterials.'
GUANGZHOU - THE number of wild camels - rugged creatures living in a former nuclear test zone with increasingly scarce water - in China's western Xinjiang territory has grown to about 500, making up about half of the world's population of the animals, state-run media reported on Friday.
Scientists estimated that in the 1990s, only about 400 wild Bactrian camels were living in a national nature reserve in Xinjiang's Lop Nur region, while another 400 or so were in Mongolia, the state-run news website Tianshannet.com.cn quoted camel expert Yuan Lei as saying.
