A small child made a halo of her arms and began swaying gently in front of Andy Warhol's Ten Foot Flowers. She wasn't only inspired by the pop art plants, for she moved in unison with a banana tree...
This year the Ibn Rushd Fund awards its prize to the great Moroccan Philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, one of the most brilliant thinkers of the modern Arab world. The prize was announced to be...
Gordon Brown has defended the use of CCTV, ID cards and the DNA database - saying they protect civil liberties. In a speech to the IPPR think tank, the prime minister said they helped ensure people's...
Netherlands (AFP) - Romantic human-robot relationships are no longer the stuff of science fiction -- researchers expect them to become reality within four decades. And they do not mean simply,...
British doctors have helped to create a surgical robot that will revolutionise treatment for the 160,000 people a year who are given a new knee or hip. The Sculptor robot enables surgeons to...
A Missouri woman accused of creating a fictitious character on MySpace to cyberbully a 13-year-old neighbour who then committed suicide pleaded not guilty to federal charges at a Los Angeles court...
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail. They...
It is, according to no less an authority than Sir David Attenborough, one of the most exhilarating wildlife experiences available to man: a sight on a par with the migration of the wildebeest across...
At least 21 dolphins died yesterday in the biggest mass stranding of marine animals in almost 30 years. A pod of 15 striped dolphins were the first to become beached after they swam up the Percuil...
A pioneering scheme which allows private landlords to own and breed wild rhinoceroses has succeeded in bringing one of Africa's most majestic animals back from the brink of extinction, conservations...
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