The Instant Cool Can (I.C. Can) cools using simple water evaporation, and will lower beverage temperature by a minimum of 30° F (16.7° C) in just three minutes. "The I.C. Can™ is the result of the so...

Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus....

Scientists have managed to recover critical data from experiments carried out in space from a hard drive found in the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The hard drive was onboard when the shu...

Uranium waste bacteria (metallireducens bacteria (green)) being used to digest uranium waste. This bacteria is able to survive in radioactive environments and turn the uranium waste from a soluble fo...

During the rule of Nerva, the Roman mint struck Roman coins with such denominations as denarius and sestertius. These are characterized in details in the article....

You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR _ rapid, deep presses on the vic...

Abu Dhabi has started to build what it says is the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste car-free city. Masdar City will cost $22bn (£11.3bn), take eight years to build and be home to 50,000 people...

Becoming a mother at 70-years-old doesn't present a problem - for a Galapagos giant tortoise. Nigrita produced her baby a few weeks ago at Zurich Zoo in Switzerland which has been her home since 1946....

IBM scientists have for the first time measured the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. ...

A study found that lowering blood pressure in the first hours of a bleeding stroke can reducs its severity. ...