date: 2010-09-02 09:41:58

Physics was the reason for the Big Bang, not God, according to scientist Stephen Hawking.

date: 2010-09-02 08:18:00

PARIS (AFP) - Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.

date: 2010-09-02 06:00:00

These stunning images from August include Moscow covered in smoke, heavy rains in Pakistan and plankton blooms changing the colour of the North Atlantic ocean

date: 2010-09-01 23:08:00

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc expects to remove a failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by Saturday or Sunday and later plug the leak for good, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said on Wednesday.

date: 2010-09-01 17:06:00

PARIS (AFP) - Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.

date: 2010-08-31 22:43:00

COPIAPO, Chile (AFP) - NASA experts Tuesday advised Chilean officials to be frank with 33 miners trapped deep underground about how long it will take to rescue them, as a giant dill slowly burrowed toward the desperate men.

date: 2010-08-31 22:21:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration asked a federal judge on Tuesday to lift an injunction halting human embryonic stem cell research, saying it would irreparably harm research and cost more than 1,300 jobs.

date: 2010-08-31 19:46:00

WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA and aerospace company ATK Aerospace Systems successfully tested Tuesday the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine ever, even though its future in the space program remains in doubt.

date: 2010-08-31 13:56:00

OSLO (Reuters) - Tiny marine creatures found on the seabed on opposite sides of the vast West Antarctic ice sheet give a strong hint of the risks of sea level rise caused by climate change, scientists said Tuesday.

date: 2010-08-31 08:35:20

The creators of the world were closer to men than to gods, argues John Gribbin.

date: 2010-08-31 06:00:00

A new CD from the British Library has digitally slowed down birdsong to allow the human ear to hear the wealth of hidden notes and melodiesPaddy AllenEric HilaireShiona Tregaskis

date: 2010-08-30 21:56:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Remains of the earliest known feast in a cave in Israel show that humans have been bringing food to funerals for millennia and suggest that burial feasts may have helped shape modern society, researchers said on Monday.

date: 2010-08-30 19:11:00

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Evidence at an ancient burial site in Israel shows that community feasts were probably a common occurrence among early humans, possibly even predating the advent of agriculture, according to a study published on Monday.