The botched launch of three of its satellites will delay Russia's bid to challenge US dominance of the market for satellite navigation technology by at least six months, analysts said on Monday.
Failure of rocket booster may be behind the failed Sunday launch of three Glonass-M navigation satellites, Russian deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said Monday.
China is set to become the world's most important centre for innovation by 2020, overtaking both the United States and Japan, according to a public opinion survey to be published on Monday.
Three Russian satellites, being sent into orbit to complete Russia's GLONASS navigation system, fell off course on Sunday and crashed into the Pacific Ocean not far from the Hawaii Islands, Ria News Agency reported.
When Israeli entrepreneur Amit Goffer was paralyzed in a car crash in 1997, he went on a quest to help other victims walk again.
A strange, salty lake in California has yielded an equally strange bacterium that thrives on arsenic and redefines life as we know it, researchers reported on Thursday.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back shadowy images of brilliant jets at Saturn's moon Enceladus after a recent flyby mission, the Jet Propulsion Loboratory (JPL) said on its website on Wednesday.
Heavy air pollution has forced Iranian authorities to close government offices and declare a two-day public holiday in the capital, Tehran.
Polar bear cubs Ganuk (R) and Taiga (L) play together at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec, November 30, 2010. Ganuk and Taiga celebrated their first birthday today.
Several US companies are developing a four-person vertical take-off flyable and roadable vehicle for the military after the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a 65 million-dollar program, according to a press release Tuesday by Terrafugia, Inc.
Men with long index fingers have a lower risk of prostate cancer, British scientists said on Wednesday, a finding that could be used to help select those who need regular screening for the disease.
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is caused by the human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus. This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors.
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