Bacteria which glow green in the presence of explosives could provide a cheap and safe way to find hidden landmines, Edinburgh scientists claim. … Read more

Egypt’s technology minister says the country has applied to register an all-Arabic domain name. … Read more

It took just six months for a warm and sunny Europe to be engulfed in ice, according to new research. … Read more

With a surprisingly simple genetic tweak, scientists have transformed nematode worms into hermaphrodites. They report in the journal Science that lowering the activity of just two genetic pathways produces the change. … Read more

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first “universal” programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics — the rules governing the submicroscopic world …

Is Rupert Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure?…. Read more

In a revision to the Google Books Settlement filed in federal court, Google and the Authors Guild made concessions to industry groups, regulators and others who have vocally opposed the plan. But the search giant …

Brazil and France have agreed a common position on fighting global warming before next month’s UN climate change conference in Copenhagen…. Read more

We are at a biological turning point: We can invent organisms to make our drugs and fuel, even recode our DNA. It’s easy to run away screaming, but author Michael Specter says we have to …

Duke Energy is working with ENN and China Huaneng Group on technologies both to produce fewer carbon emissions and to capture more of them…. Read more

The Next Big Thing in U.S. banking may be mobile person-to-person money transfers…. Read more

As more free-trade deals exclude America, Beijing could dominate a new Asian trade bloc…. Read more

Europe’s electricity companies have published a new report setting out a number of scnearios for shifting Europe’s electricity supply towards a carbon-neutral path by 2050…. Read more

Britain must adopt a ‘war time footing’ to tackle catastrophic climate change, a major report has warned…. Read more

<p>The Pope’s chief astronomer has conceded other intelligent beings could exist in outer space. The conclusion has been drawn by scientific experts called in by the Vatican to study the possibility of extraterrestrial life and …

Aseem Prakash, author of the book Midnight Economy: The New Business Order Emerging from the Shadows, argued in a recent BusinessWeek article that economic power is shifting towards the East and that many in business …

For centuries, farmers like Berhanu Gudina have eked out a living in Ethiopia’s central lowlands, tending tiny plots of maize, wheat or barley amid the vastness of the lush green plains.Now, they find themselves working …

The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped by 45% and is the lowest on record since monitoring began 21 years ago, Brazil’s government says. Read more

Google’s digital book plan rides on revised deal. Read more

A gene that has long been implicated in the evolution of speech and language has given up more of its secrets. Read more

In a development that could have significant ramifications for the nation’s health care system, Baby Boomers may well be entering their 60s suffering far more disabilities than their counterparts did in previous generations, according to …

Tests carried out on pigs have given Australian scientists hope that they will be able to re-grow women’s breasts lost to cancer…. Read more

Although the cloaks may sound like something from Harry Potter, researchers in London were today given the go-ahead for a £4.9 million project to create a real invisibility suit…. Read more

Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to new …

Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new …