SCIENCE

Among the group of 25 female leatherback turtles tracked by scientists, Darwinia was the best diving sea turtle out of all. Scientists placed a simple transmitter on the back of the turtle and tracked them for over 5 years.

Scientists are trying to clone the woolly mammoth by 2016.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he might need to have heart transplant operation, given his history of cardiovascular problems.

Britain launched a public consultation Monday to help authorities decide whether people who donate eggs and sperm to fertility clinics should be paid cash compensation, and if so how much.

Scientists have found a protein that acts as a master switch to determine whether certain white blood cells will boost or dampen inflammation, a finding that may help the search for new drugs for rheumatoid arthritis.

How can you tell if someone is successful in a social life? Generally, advanced educations, high level of foreign language proficiency, and various experiences makes you an outstanding person. However, a great deal of evidence addresses that an attractive voice can be more important than above for one to have a successful social life.

Relativity doesn't only affect things moving at speeds close to that of light. New calculations show that the common car battery works because of relativistic effects.

Australia's University of New South Wales has broken the Guinness land speed record for a solar-powered car - about 55 miles per hour.

U.S. health regulators are requesting a limit on the amount of acetaminophen in prescription pain medicines in an effort to curb the risk of liver damage.

British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections -- a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading and causing deadly epidemics in humans.

People with long-lasting depression may benefit from talk therapy when other treatment methods such as antidepressant drugs alone aren't working, suggests a new study. But the topic needs more research, the authors say - and they also point out that talk therapy isn't accessible or affordable for everyone.

Evidence strongly suggests that some chemicals, especially chemicals in cigarette smoke, might cause some cases of diabetes and obesity, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.

Brisk walking regularly not only burn off calories, but will also lessen the diabetes risk provided you walk more, say Australian researchers. The researchers say 10,000 steps daily 5 days a week would be three times more protective in insulin sensitivity than 3,000 steps a day.

Researchers from NC State create a third-dimension coil of silicon nanowire which could lead to stretchable electronics.

2010 has tied 2005 as the warmest year since people have been keeping records, according to data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

Chinese police have arrested 96 people for using melamine-tainted milk powder to produce dairy products, state media said on Thursday, the same chemical that killed several babies in a milk powder scandal in 2008.

British scientists have shown for the first time how our brain wiring develops in the first few months of life and say their findings will help in the understanding of a range of brain and psychiatric disorders.

Pork tainted with the highly toxic chemical dioxin may have been sold in Germany, authorities said on Wednesday.

The World Health Organization launched a plan on Wednesday to stop a form of drug-resistant malaria from spreading from Southeast Asia to Africa, where millions of lives could be at risk.

As we take our first steps into 2011, here are some science and technological breakthroughs that the world witnessed in 2010.

Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter that produced above thunderstorms on Earth, something never seen before.

Spending just four hours a day working on a computer or watching television is likely to double the risk of heart disease and increase the possibility of premature deaths, according to a study.

A series of investigative articles in British Medical Journal conclusively prove that Dr Wakefield falsified data and there were irregularities and discrepancies in his study

Electric wheelchairs are a real boon to people with disabilities, but they lack a way to adjust the power to the wheels, making it hard to navigate when the terrain gets rough. A group of engineers is using technology designed for the military to solve that problem.

Chinese nuclear scientists have made a technological breakthrough by developing nuclear fuel reprocessing technology which could potentially solve the country's uranium supply problem, according to media reports.

The recent snowstorms in the northeastern U.S. and a similar blizzard last year might make some doubt the climate is changing. The short answer is: no, and in fact some of the people who study climate predicted wetter winters - and more snow, at least for a while.

Odd science claims made by various celebrities - about diets, cancer, reabsorbing sperm, hologram bracelets and more - make no scientific sense, according to a campaign group.

Increased solar activity could give residents of the continental U.S., southern Europe and Japan the chance to see the northern lights for the first time in several years.

A computer scientist has adapted a Kinect to control a character in World of Warcraft, but he hopes to see it used in physical therapy also.