Technology

IN 1955, some of the world’s greatest scientists attending the annual meeting of Nobel laureates at Lindau in Germany, signed a manifesto opposing nuclear weapons. They warned that the devices could annihilate entire peoples. This […] […]

Brilliant article by Anna Wierzbicka, professor of linguistics at the Australian National University EVEN under the disguise of social sciences, the scope of the humanities is rarely understood by the public. MOST English speakers assume […] […]

Beneath New Zealand waters a secret language is being spoken, of which humans know little. Fish have been found to grunt, growl and “pop” at each other, according to University of Auckland marine scientist Shahriman […] […]

WATERLOO, ONT.— Stephen Harper dropped in on famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday bearing scholarly gifts — a post-doctoral scholarship for Canada. The prime minister, following up on a budget commitment, announced 70 fellowships a […] […]

Britain’s leading leukaemia charity has developed a painless way to test whether someone is a match for a bone marrow transplant. The Anthony Nolan Trust’s saliva DNA kit will allow doctors to match donors and […] […]

LONDON – Health officials say a new meningitis vaccine will help prevent epidemics in Africa for the first time, revolutionising how doctors fight outbreaks of the deadly disease. Meningitis, a potentially fatal infection of the […] […]

A MAN claiming to be an Iranian nuclear scientist whom Tehran alleges the US kidnapped said he escaped from US agents, in a video screened on Iranian television. “I am Shahram Amiri, a citizen of […] […]

THIS is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to […] […]

A TINY heatproof capsule which scientists hope contains some of the oldest dust in the universe will streak back to Earth and land in the Australian desert today, ending a historic space mission. Japan’s Hayabusa […] […]