Portable seismographs will be installed at 900 locations in New Zealand's lower North Island as part of a study to help scientists better understand earthquake hazards in the Pacific region.
An hour spent playing video games may make teenage boys eat more over the rest of the day, a small study suggests.
NASA says a switch box removed from space shuttle Endeavour has a blown circuit.
Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (R), US astronaut Michael E. Fossum (L) and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov smile for the camera during a training exercise in the Soyuz capsule simulator in the Russian cosmonaut training centre at Star City outside Moscow May 4, 2011. The three man team is scheduled to leave for the International Space Station on June 7.
Global sea levels will rise faster than expected this century, partly because of quickening climate change in the Arctic and a thaw of Greenland's ice, an international report said on Tuesday.
Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut, and a team from Delft University of Technology co-designed this 23-seat superbus powered by lithium-polymer battery. The superbus is smaller than regular buses, but it can pick up passengers and stop at destinations ordered by passengers through the Web or cell phones.
Fewer American households own a television set in 2010, representing the first reduction in 20 years, Nielsen Co. said on Tuesday.
The 1.5 million euros Mars rover Eurobot prototype was transported from the Netherlands to Spain for its first test under field conditions.
Sony Corp. said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts after a review of the recent PlayStation Network breach found an intrusion at a division that makes multiplayer online games.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that it has built one of the country's fastest supercomputers with a theoretical peak performance of 220 trillion operations per second.
NASA is pushing back from May 8 to May 10 its target for the already delayed launch of space shuttle Endeavour on its last flight to the International Space Station.
Rice originated in China, a team of US genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing back thousands of years of evolutionary history through large-scale gene re-sequencing.
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