Technology

“EVERYONE’s a little bit racist, sometimes.” Scientists say there’s a good reason audiences worlwide have chuckled knowingly to the famous song from the hit musical Avenue Q. A team from researchers from a US college […] […]

SMALL, furry mammals partial to a daily dose of hibernation in winter are probably extending their lifespan at the same time, according to a study published today. Experiments with Djugarian hamsters native to Siberia showed […] […]

THERE has long been evidence that children of older mothers are at risk of illnesses such as Down syndrome – now it seems having an elderly father can increase the odds of developing mental illness. […] […]

A EUROPEAN study involving nearly 1000 participants has found no link between mobile phone use and brain tumours in children and adolescents, a group that may be particularly sensitive to phone emissions. The study, published […] […]

FAMED theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking finds no room for heaven in his vision of the cosmos. In an interview published today in The Guardian newspaper, the 69-year-old says the human brain is a like a […] […]

THE inventor Sir James Dyson has warned that Chinese students are infiltrating British universities to steal technological and scientific secrets and even planting software bugs to relay the information to China. Dyson, best known for […] […]

Scientists have rushed to dismiss panicked talk that the slew of recent earthquakes were connected, saying the disasters were simply nature taking its course. Friday’s magnitude 8.9 tremor in Japan – the most powerful to […] […]