Winter storm brings `once in decade` ice, snow to US South

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 04:51

A rare blast of snow, sleet and ice hit the US South, prompting three states to declare a state of emergency, closing the New Orleans airport.

Why e-vehicles in India can`t reduce air pollution

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 14:27

Even the electric cars or battery-operated rickshaws on Indian roads are not sufficient to tame the air pollution.

State abortion ultrasound law illegal: US judge

Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 09:16

North Carolina law requiring women who want abortion to have ultrasound and then have medical provider describe image to them is violation of constitutional free-speech rights, federal judge ruled.

Scientists find way to reduce biofuel production costs

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 20:52

US researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery in , researchers have crossed one of the largest barriers to produce cost-effective biofuels.

Meet the dinosaur which terrorised tyrannosaurs

Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 09:28

Palaeontologists on Friday announced they had uncovered the remains of one of the greatest land predators ever -- a nine-metre (30-foot) four-tonne dinosaur that stalked the planet 100 million years ago.

North Carolina social worker arrested after child cuffed to porch

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 12:14

A North Carolina social worker is under arrest after a foster child was found cuffed by the ankle to her front porch with a dead chicken hanging from around his neck.

Child found chained to porch with dead chicken

Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 10:11

A North Carolina social worker has been arrested after her foster child was found chained to the porch of her home with a dead chicken around his neck, police in the southeastern US state said.

Oysters may use sound to select home

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 11:33

Scientists have found that young oysters depend on the sound of the reef when deciding where to settle in for the rest of their lives.

Now, robotic cockroaches to explore hard-to-reach spaces

Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 21:22

Scientists have developed a new software that allows them to map dangerous or unknown spaces - such as collapsed buildings - based on the movement of a swarm of insect cyborgs.

Atom bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961: UK paper

Last Updated: Saturday, September 21, 2013, 12:13

A US atom bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima, according to a declassified document published in a British newspaper on Friday.