Archaeologists have discovered a wooden sea monster figurehead that has risen from the Baltic Sea, dating it back to a 15th century warship.
A new study reveals the origins of lager beer throughout history where scientists have made a genome sequence of the elusive yeast strain of the lager beer.
Huge explosions rocked China’s northern port city of Tianjin, leaving at least 44 people dead, including 17 firefighters who responded to the scene.
Researchers have developed a "mother robot" that can build its own "children" by natural selection, learning from failures and then building better robots.
China and Russia are planning on bolstering Iran’s armed forces with new fighter jets and air defense systems as part of their strategy against the United States, according to a recently published report from the Beijing-based Sina Military Network.
New observations reveal that the smallest ever supermassive black hole was detected inside a relatively small galaxy some 340 million light years away.
Austria has become one of the nations in Europe to block access to The Pirate Bay for Austrians. A court in Vienna ordered a local internet service provider called A1 TeleKom to block TPB access for its customers.
Scientists have successfully completed the first ever octopus genome sequence that reveals the cephalopod's unique predatory and intelligent skills.
The Chinese government is encouraging all employers and government agencies to give their employees Friday afternoons off with pay during the summer months, in an effort to increase revenue through tourism, the Shanghai Daily reported.
Three major Chinese airlines are ranked among the least punctual in the world, according to a report from Civil Aviation Data Analysis.
The New Zealand government is currently considering changing one of its national symbols, the national flag. The government announced on Aug. 10 the 40 possible designs out of 10,000 submitted entries.
Most parents would stop at nothing to ensure the safety of their children. Clearly, it was not the case when one Asian father has chosen to let her daughter drown and die rather than male rescuers in a Dubai beach touch her, and dishonor her in the process.
The recent decision of China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), to make improvements on its "central parity system" to better reflect market movements in the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan or renminbi (RMB) against the U.S. dollar has caused the value of the RMB to fall sharply.
A team from MIT created a robot that with quick reflexes that is controlled by a human pilot inside an exosuit.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope detected its 10th circumbinary exoplanet, a planet with two stars, in the habitable zone of its star system.
