ABERDEEN (BBC): The puzzle of why the penguin is unable to fly may have finally been solved. Researchers believe that the bird’s underwater prowess may have cost it its ability to fly. By looking at seabirds closely related to the penguin, scientists confirmed that a wing that is good for ...

LONDON: British scientists say they have developed a new type of wheat which could increase productivity by 30%. The Cambridge-based National Institute of Agricultural Botany has combined an ancient ancestor of wheat with a modern variety to produce a new strain. In early trials, the resulting crop ...

LONDON Telegraph - Scientists believe they may have hit upon a cure for baldness - but it is not for the faint-hearted. Researchers found they were able to regrow hair on the bald patches on people’s heads by injecting them with a solution derived from their own blood. The so-called ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Scientists in Japan said Friday they had found a way to “read” people’s dreams, using MRI scanners to unlock some of the secrets of the unconscious mind. Researchers have managed what they said was “the world’s first decoding” of night-time visions, ...

OTTAWA (AFP)Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs. Klaus Nielsen and Wei Ling Yu, former researchers at the CFIA, are accused of attempting to export harmful pathogens that could infect ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AFP) - For decades, the strange substance called dark matter has teased physicists, challenging conventional notions of the cosmos.Today, though, scientists believe that with the help of multi-billion-dollar tools, they are closer than ever to piercing the mystery - and the ...

KARACHI - Karachi University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Qaiser has urged scientists working in the areas of molecular medicines and drug research to conduct research on polio and measles to prevent our children from the fatality of these diseases. He said deaths of more than 200 children in ...

KARACHI - Deaths of more than 200 children in Sindh due to the fatality of measles is a point of concern for the health experts and scientists also. The scientists working in the area of molecular medicine are required to conduct research on such diseases, like measles and polio, claiming lives of ...

LONDON - British scientists have begun drilling through the Antarctic ice in the hope of finding extreme life forms in a hidden lake. The team of 12 scientists is using hot water to melt a borehole through 3km of the ice sheet to reach Lake Ellsworth. The freshwater has been sealed off by the ice ...

FAISALABAD - Sixty percent of the Pakistanis are facing food insecurity whereas 29 percent are in the grip of swear starvation, said scientists while demanding immediate steps to overcome the problem, during an international food conference here.The moot was titled “Future Perspective of Food ...

ISLAMABAD  - The American agricultural scientists, under the US government-sponsored Wheat Productivity Enhancement Programme (WPEP), are regularly collaborating with Pakistani scientists on research to combat diseases affecting Pakistan’s principal crops particularly cotton and ...

IT may not seem like elephants and Barry White would have much in common. But it appears that both use bass singing to set the mood.Researchers have found that elephants use an ultrasound rumble - often too low for humans to hear - to keep the herd together and for males to find mates. It allows ...

PARIS - Scientists said Sunday they had unravelled the mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is sucked deep into the Southern Ocean to be safely locked away - a process that may itself be threatened by climate change. Wind, eddies and currents work together to create carbon-sucking funnels, said ...

IT is the tiny robot that can do something astonishing. Canadian researcher today showed off the incredible tiny machine inspired by an insect.Like the water strider it was based on, it can walk on water - and even jump, all without sinking.Scientists at the University of Waterloo revealed the ...

THEY're best known for sending sea swimmers into a fright, but now jellyfish have inspired what could be a revolutionary medical procedure. A robotic version of the creature may soon be used to create artificial human organs such as a heart.The Medusoid – named after snaked-haired Medusa, the ...

SCIENTISTS are working out a way to ‘hack’ into Stephen Hawking’s brain to enable him to communicate more easily.The world-famous physicist has been trying out the ‘iBrain’ which picks up his brain waves and sends them to a computer for analysis. Hawking was fitted ...

GENETICALLY modified cows, able to produce low-lactose milk, have been created by scientists in a GM breakthrough that could help millions who suffer from intolerances.The development was made after scientists implanted genes into cells from cow embryos in a technique previously used to create ...

RAWALPINDI - Renowned Nuclear Scientist and Founding Chairman of Nescom, Dr Samar Mubarakmand said that our experienced scientists worked tirelessly to make Pakistan an atomic power and prevented India from launching any offensive campaign against our national security. He made these remarks while ...

RAWALPINDI – Renowned Nuclear Scientist and Founding Chairman of Nescom, Dr Samar Mubarakmand said that our experienced scientists worked tirelessly to make Pakistan an atomic power and prevented India from launching any offensive campaign against our national security.He made these remarks ...

RAWALPINDI – The three-day International Bioenergy Conference commenced at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS AAUR) here on Wednesday with the objectives to strengthen the knowledge of existing scientific manpower and to highlight the available resources and ...

SCIENTISTS have begun a study to see if it is possible to influence what we dream about.They have designed a smartphone app which plays sounds such as birds in woodland or waves lapping against the shore. The idea is that the noises should direct pleasant dreaming.Prof Richard Wiseman, who is ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Russian and South Korean scientists signed a deal Tuesday on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ago. The deal was signed by Vasily Vasiliev, vice rector of North-Eastern Federal University of the Sakha ...

PHNOM PENH  - A new species of lizard with striking iridescent rainbow skin, a long tail and very short legs has been discovered in the rainforest in northeast Cambodia, conservationists announced Wednesday.Scientists named the skink Lygosoma veunsaiensis to honour the Veun Sai-Siem Pang ...

WASHINGTON - Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full flowering plants by scientists in Russia, a new study has revealed.The seeds of the herbaceous Silene stenophylla are far and away the oldest plant tissue to ...

VANCOUVER, Canada  - Everything you know about dieting is wrong, say US scientists who have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss that they hope will revolutionize the way people tackle obesity.Obesity rates have doubled worldwide in the past 30 years, coinciding with ...

ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH To avoid restating the obvious, or repeating what others have already established, I take these facts as givens: that the main perpetrator of the assassination of Iranian scientists has been the Israeli spy agency Mossad, assisted by various covert operations agencies of the ...

LAHORE - The Urdu literati and Bio-Tech scientists lifted the prestigious general trophies at the closing ceremony of the 112th Annual Sports of the Government College University (GCU). Vice Chancellor Prof Dr M Khaleeq-ur-Rahman chaired the proceedings of the closing ceremony while college’s ...

Chinese scientists are investigating a bizarre case in which a cockerel apparently started laying eggs after all the hens were eaten.The birds owner Huang Li, 47, kept the rooster together with seven hens on his small farm at Chumiao village, Mengcheng city, in central China’s Anhui ...

WASHINGTON - US scientists said Wednesday they have found a way to decode how the brain hears words, in what researchers described as a major step toward one day helping people communicate after paralysis or stroke.By placing electrodes on the brains of research subjects and then having them listen ...

FORGET Satnav, now there is seal-nav. Scientists have discovered that some seals are capable of finding their way back to the exact spot where they were born even after spending five years out at sea. The Antarctic fur seals remarkable homing instinct, which is thought to be the most accurate of ...