Science & Technology

French researchers on Tuesday dealt a blow to folklore that says mothers are better than fathers in recognizing their baby’s cry.

A research ship cruised through the Coral Sea, east of Australia, bearing down on Sandy Island.

Researchers in the United States on Sunday said they had bio-engineered a kidney and transplanted it into rats, marking a step forward in a quest to help patients suffering from kidney failure.

The touted arrival this year of wearable gadgets such as computer displays strapped to wrists and in wrap-around glasses is just a step toward a bigger revolution in screens — those that can

E-mail accounts, online photo albums and social-networking sites leave extensive digital footprints. But what should happen to that data after we die?

NEW YORK: Google has launched a tool that lets users decide what happens with their e-mail, Google Plus and other accounts after they die — or become inactive online for any other reason.

A letter that scientist Francis Crick wrote to his son about his Nobel Prize-winning DNA discovery was sold to anonymous buyer at a New York City auction on Wednesday for a record-breaking $5.3 mil

WASHINGTON: Feeling lonely won’t kill you. Actually being alone might.

An innovative project in London is helping people to prolong the life of their electronic devices by repairing them and encouraging others to do learn to do the same.

When the doctors at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) are reading an ultrasound, examining an X-ray or evaluating an echocardiogram, the patient they are treatin