LONG BEACH (California) - US UNIVERSITY researchers have created a portable 'sixth sense' device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly channel Internet information into daily routines.
LONG BEACH (California) - Robots will be armies of the future in a case of science fact catching up to fiction, a researcher told an elite Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) gathering on Wednesday.
HONG KONG - TWO teams of researchers say they have identified a key area of the H5N1 bird flu virus which appears to be involved in its replication and hope the discovery could speed up the design of new drugs.
In separate articles published in the journal Nature, the teams from France and China said the region of the virus could be an important target for the development of new drugs.
PANAMA CITY - Scientists have found a 60-million-year-old fossil of the world's largest snake, a 13m, one-tonne behemoth dubbed Titanoboa, in a coal mine in Colombia, the US Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute said on Wednesday.
'The discovery of Titanoboa challenges our understanding of past climates and environments, as well as the biological limitations on the evolution of giant snakes,' said Jason Head, member of the Panama-based research institute and lead author of the study to be published Thursday in Nature magazine.
