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While men are more likely to chat up a fair-haired lady on a night out, they actually find brunettes more attractive, a study has...

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Many people find themselves locked out of their accounts for hours as suffer from what the internet has coined “passworditis” - forgetting a password. In...

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Twitter ground to a halt on the last day of 2011 as it was overloaded with New Year messages. In UK, the social network crashed...

NASA’s twin Grail satellites will make measurements that are expected to give scientists remarkable new insights into the internal structure of the Moon

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NASA has succeeded in putting the first of twin gravity mapping satellites (Gravity Recovery and Internal Laboratories) in orbit around the Moon. The Grail-A spacecraft...

Jack Horner, the technical adviser on Jurassic Park and professor of palaeontology at Montana State University, is hoping to use living birds to hatch a dinosaur

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Jack Horner, the technical adviser on Jurassic Park and professor of palaeontology at Montana State University, is hoping to use living birds to hatch...

After Europe hailed his discovery of the Americas in the 15th century, Christopher Columbus was blamed for introducing syphilis to Old World

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After Europe hailed his discovery of the Americas in the 15th century, Christopher Columbus was blamed for introducing syphilis to Old World. However, several reports...

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Scientists from John Hopkins University in Baltimore have designed a new, leap-year-free calendar, which makes birthdays, holidays and Christmas to fall on the same...

The sea creature or “sea pen” - so called because it looks like a writer's quill - is a colony of polyps that anchors itself to the sea bed in the North Sea

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A sea creature that lights up when touched - was one of several rare and elusive species captured by Scottish marine surveys this year. The...

The Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service, five days after a failed launch

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The Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service, five days after a failed launch. The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit...

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An online privacy group says that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning...

A coronal mass ejection (CME) contains billions of tons of gases bursting with X-rays and ultraviolet radiation that are flung into space at around 5 million mph

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Particles from a recent solar storm will slam today into Earth and produce amazing Northern Lights, or auroras. On the downside, experts expect radio...

The menus feature snacks and ready meals with high levels of protein provided by fish and lean meat

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Dieters can trim two inches from their waistlines in only eight weeks by increasing the proportion of protein they eat and cutting back on...

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Noah Kravitz's former employer, Phonedog, want him to hand back his Twitter following when he left the company. The landmark case opens up legal questions over...

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The GSM network, known as the “normal” mobile phone network, accounts for 80% of the global mobile market and is used by 4 billion...

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A Facebook update will make users to become unwitting corporate ambassadors under plans by the company to allow the site's main news feed to...

A team of French researchers spent more than 6 years following 8,000 people and found that those taking supplements were just as likely to have developed cancer or heart disease as those who took an identical-looking dummy pill

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The multi-vitamin pills are taken daily by millions of people in the world, hoping to ward off ill-health. However, a major study showed that the...

Anonymous claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers belonging to clients of Stratfor

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Anonymous, the hacking group, claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security...

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Apple hopes to use hydrogen cells to produce lighter batteries that could last for weeks on its products. Apple is staying on the cutting edge...

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Norwegian researchers have discovered a cure to ease that painful gut-busting feeling brought on by over indulging during the holidays and without cutting down...

The hi-tech “plasma brush” can hollow out rotten teeth in just 30 seconds, with only a slight cooling sensation for the patient

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A new painless cavity drill is set to hit dentists' surgeries in two years, scientists from University of Missouri and the technology company Nanova...

Children and parents across the world can see just how far Santa and his reindeer are from their homes, thanks to a “Santa Tracker” that follows his route around the globe

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Children and parents across the world can see just how far Santa and his reindeer are from their homes, thanks to a “Santa Tracker”...

The metallic sphere weighs around 13 lbs, has a diameter of 14 inches and its rough surface looks like “two halves welded together”

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A strange metal sphere that looks like a prop from a science fiction film fell to the ground in a remote area of northern...

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The gadgets that we're used to seeing in science fiction films could soon become a thing of reality as researchers develop new technology to...

Large Hadron Collider’s detector Atlas captured a particle that physicists had suspected to exist for years, but had never seen “in the wild”

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Large Hadron Collider’s detector Atlas captured a particle that physicists had suspected to exist for years, but had never seen “in the wild”. The Chi...

When Amy Winehouse died earlier this year at the age of 27, she joined a group of high-profile rockers who shared her taste for hard living, all of whom died at the same age – the “27 club”

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Researchers from Queensland University of Technology found that while fame - and unhealthy lifestyles - did increase the risk of premature death for musicians,...