SCIENCE

Scientists from King's College London and the University of Oxford have found that a gene linked to type 2 diabetes and cholesterol is a master trans regulator, which controls other genes found within fat in the body.

NASA said on May 12 that new data analysis from its Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io.

NASA's countdown clocks has begun ticking again for Monday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour.

A visual treat performed by planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter was visible today in the dawn sky background around sunrise.

Red-faced Facebook executives on Thursday admitted launching a smear campaign against number one rival Google and discredit its privacy practices.

Ancient town Lorca in Spain was hit by a rare 5.3 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday, damaging old churches, causing houses to collapse and killing at least 10.

Security researchers at Symantec sad a programming bug on Facebook’s website may have unintentionally given advertisers and others access to a bunch of personal information. This issue may have affected almost 100,000 Facebook applications for now.

A devastating earthquake purportedly predicted for that day by a long-dead seismologist has made Roman locals to leave their town in fear of the catastrophe.

The federal government said it would reduce generous subsidies for home solar electricity panels, in response to the escalating demand for solar electricity panels on Australia's rooftops.

A U.S. space probe carrying four gyroscopes has confirmed two key elements of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, according to the journal Physical Review Letters.

The U.S. government has effectively ended its search for alien life after it slashed the budget of its only center that looks for intelligent life in the universe beyond Earth.

The admonishment about not judging a book by its cover may not be quite right according to a study in the current issue of the journal, Social Psychological and Personality Science. Most people's first impressions tend to come out quite accurate according to the study.

Researchers at the University of Utah have determined that having a high working memory capacity is not an indication of one ability to focus deeply on a current task but a strong capability to shift attention to another task when it is needed.

Seven months after it announced that it would imbue its support pages with more 'social' relevance, Apple, Inc. went live with Apple Support Communites over the pre-easter weekend.

A software platform developed by a research officer at the University of Melbourne, “StatPlanet World Bank”, has been named winner of the World Bank’s first-ever “Apps for Development” competition.

Intel has announced that it will be integrating both USb 3.0 and Thunderbolt data transfer technologies in its Ivy Bridge chipsets for release in 2012. At present, only Apple has released Thunderbolt in its Macbook Pro laptops. Dell offers USB 3.0 in the Precision laptop line but through non-intel silicon.

Coffee made espresso makers contain more toxic, carcinogenic furans than regular drip machine brews or even instant coffee, according to research conducted at the University of Barcelona. However, all are still within safe levels.

Dutch researchers have discovered what may well be the fastest and most dense digital storage method by disturbing the direction of an atom's magnetic field. Although still in its early experimental stages, the technology already promises the potential for data storage devices reading and writing at the terahertz range or about 1,000 times faster than current technology.

Nuclear and health experts said an increase in the crisis level of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident from level 5 to level 7 does not mean that the public health risk is any worse or that the disaster resembles Chernobyl in 1986, the worst nuclear power accident in history, which was also a 7.

Research into lithium-air batteries that have the same energy density as gasoline, and with potential use in tractor trailers, is actively being investigated by Risø DTU, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of the Technical University of Denmark. The research aims to remove the Achilles' heel of the electric car which is the limited energy density of today's batteries, which will only sustain short drives.

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station returned to the plant Friday after a 7.1 magnitude aftershock forced them to leave lateThursday night.

Initially thought to be a danger only in hospitals, bacteria with the antibiotic-proof gene than can be horizontally transferred to other bacteria has been found in New Delhi's tap water network by researchers from the University of Cardiff led by Dr. Timothy Walsh as reported in the Lancet Infectious Diseases website.

Microsoft and Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) have finalized an agreement to infuse digital capabilities into the Japanese auto maker's cars hosted in the Internet "cloud."

Hardly had the operator of Japan’s damaged nuclear plant announced that they have stopped a leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean early Wednesday morning from reactor 2, they are now preparing to inject nitrogen to the containment vessel of reactor 1 to prevent a possible hydrogen explosion.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have confirmed that graphene – sheets of carbon that are one atom thick which can be made into computer chips, have inherent self-cooling capabilities. Scientists have known for a while that graphene can be used just like silicon to manufacture semiconductors however, the thermodynamic advantage of using it has not been completely understood until now.

A nanomedicine breakthrough using polymers to detect and destroy antibiotic resistant bacteria has been jointly announced by IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore. With this discovery, medicine now has a potent weapon against bacteria such as MRSA or methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.

The Japanese government on Wednesday raised "maximum alert" after radioactive water has been found and plutonium was detected in the soil around areas near a crippled nuclear power plant.

A nuclear expert on Wednesday said that the world, especially Japan needs nuclear power despite the ongoing crisis. Professor George Dracoulis said that Japan relies on nuclear power for about 30% of its electricity.

Australia's Houses of Parliament on Wednesday approved two bills setting out the regulatory framework for the National Broadband Network. The move was quickly welcomed by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy.