A French scientist honoured with the Nobel Prize for discovering the Aids virus has predicted that there would be a ''therapeutic vaccine'' for the disease within four years. Read more »

Guidelines for low- and middle-income countries to implement breast cancer programs to detect and treat the most common disease among women worldwide have been published for the first time in a specia Read more »

Chandrayaan-I, India's first spacecraft mission beyond earth orbit, is slated to be launched onboard India's workhorse rocket PSLV-C11 at 6.20 am on October 22. Read more »

India plans to a have a new launch pad to undertake its proposed human space flight (manned mission) programme, ISRO officials said. Read more »

Scientists have discovered what they claim is the "engine" that drives cell movement, a major breakthrough which could have widespread implications in the fields of cancer growth, memory and developme Read more »

An asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the earth's atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn today setting off a display of natural fireworks in the sky. Read more »

As if there weren't enough reasons to pass on frozen chicken. Read more »

Low level of stress hormone may trigger antisocial behaviour in male adolescents, a new study in Britain shows. Read more »

The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature has suggested that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. Read more »

Scientists have launched a new blood test in Britain that they say can spot prostrate cancer - the most common cancer in men - in just ten minutes. Read more »