Science & Technology

The meteor that blazed across the East Coast sky Friday night and lit up the Twittersphere was the size of a washing machine and not at all unusual, scientists said.

If you own a mobile phone and spend sunup to sundown watching the traffic pass in Ghana’s capital, then Iddrisu Mohammed wants you to be his spy.

SAN BRUNO, California: YouTube said 1 billion unique users were now visiting the video-sharing website every month, or nearly one out of every two people on the Internet.

Voyager 1, launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets, has passed into a new region on its way out of the solar system, scientists said recently.

Scientists yesterday announced they had peeked into the DNA of the giant squid, seeking to demystify a deep-sea creature that has haunted sailors’ dreams for centuries.

Relieved your kids aren’t posting embarrassing messages and goofy self-portraits on Facebook? They’re probably doing it on Instagram and Snapchat instead.

A large-scale integrative model of human colon will be on display in Riyadh tomorrow.

Even as videogames come under scrutiny for potential harmful impacts, researchers and developers are touting digital games for positive effects on health, learning and o

Three astronauts returned safely to Earth from the International Space Station early yesterday, aboard a Russian capsule which landed on the freezing Kazakhstan steppe, mission control said.

WASHINGTON: Some primitive birds boasted four wings, before evolution led them to ditch their hind feathers in favor of webbed or scaly feet, scientists in China said recently.