Nasa has spotted a tiny, rocky planet about the size of earth doing a speedy orbit of a star outside our solar system, but its scorching temperatures are too hot for life, the space agency said on Monday. The exoplanet, named Kepler-10b, is the smallest-ever planet discovered outside our solar system, and was located by Nasa’s Kepler spacecraft.

Google’s prototype language translator, Conversation Mode now lets you communicate with locals in any part of the world.

Researchers are developing sensory devices to be installed in cars that would keep them from starting if the drivers have had too many drinks.
The new technology would require a passive set of sensors permanently installed in the vehicles or touch-sensitive contact points on a key fob or starter button would immediately register the level of alcohol in the bloodstream.

One of the long-standing mysteries in solar physics is why the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.

Humans began to wear clothing 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to migrate out of Africa successfully, a new study has claimed.
The evidence comes from seemingly very unfashionable lice, since US scientists tracked when head lice evolved into clothing or body lice 170,000 years ago, used DNA sequencing for their calculations.

Nasa said Thursday it had again postponed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, already pushed back to February, to an undetermined date to allow more time for repairs.

"The decision was made on Friday to allow the teams additional time and delay the next launch opportunity out of the early February launch window," the space agency said in a statement on its website.

US President Barack Obama will Friday tap expertise polished in the Clinton-era economic boom years with the expected choice of policy veteran Gene Sperling for a top White House job.

The expected move will be the latest step in a staff shuffle that has seen Mr Obama refresh his economic and political teams to meet a strong challenge from resurgent Republicans as he prepares to build a 2012 reelection campaign.

The Obama administration has ramped up its secret war on terror groups with a new military targeting centre to oversee the growing use of special operations strikes against suspected militants in hot

Anticipating a Taliban surge ahead of mandated troop reduction, US, in a surprise move, has decided to dispatch additional 1400 strong marine combat force to Afghanistan.

A decision to boost up US forces has been decided by the defence secretary Robert Gates and the marine battalion could start arriving on the ground as early as mid-January, Wall Street Journal reported.

Palaeontologists have discovered a chicken-sized prehistoric bird which they say used its club-like wings as a weapon during a fight.