Researchers have developed ways to substitute chicken feathers for petroleum in some plastic products, and at least two US companies are working to bring items ranging from biodegradable flower pots to office furniture to market.
Technology may have a harmful effect on children's development and creativity, Australia's report found on Tuesday.
Technology may have a harmful effect on children's development and creativity, Australia's report found on Tuesday.
A French museum has returned the mummified and tattooed head of a Maori to New Zealand officials after spending 136 years in a Normandy museum, a belated gesture to restore dignity to the first of 16 such human heads once displayed as exotic curiosities.
Strap-on artificial cat ears have abilities to wiggle, twitch, perk up or flop down by responding to user's brainwaves.
One out of every 38 children in South Korea may have autism, a surprisingly high number based on a new research approach that suggests autism is a global problem that is significantly underdiagnosed, researchers said on Monday.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has recorded images of 12 endangered Sumatran tigers, including a mother playing with cubs, in an Indonesian forest that it said is about to be cleared by loggers.
Students' robots move around a specially designed miniature soccer pitch during the European robotic soccer competition at the University of Business and Technology in Kosovo's capital Pristina May 5, 2011.
The search for intelligent life in the universe beyond planet Earth has been dealt a major blow by government spending cutbacks in the United States.
High over the Mojave Desert, the stubby-winged SpaceShipTwo bent itself into a near-right angle shape and plunged nearly straight downward for more than a minute before unfolding and gliding to a runway landing before an excited crowd.
The United States space program was down and out when Alan Shepard climbed inside a one-man capsule on May 5, 1961, for a 15-minute ride.
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Wednesday that its Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test.
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