Headlines on Monday have been touting the promise of a new blood test for Alzheimer's disease —a simple, non-invasive way to detect the condition before symptoms occur. It measures levels of 10 lipids or fats circulating in the blood, and a study of 525 ...

New Delhi, March 10: A 15-year period of unusually high rainfall in Mongolia fuelled Genghis Khan's conquest spree across Asia in the early 13th century, planting the seeds for India's Mughal dynasty some 300 years later, a new study suggests. American ...

(Updates with landing scheduled for Tuesday, as initially planned). MOSCOW, March 11 (Reuters) - An American astronaut and two Russians who carried a Sochi Olympic torch into open space are scheduled to return to Earth on Tuesday after 166 days ...

WASHINGTON — Watching a seat-back display with a plane-shaped icon gliding across the map, it is easy to forget that in true scale, the airplane is very small and the route very large. As the hours and days drag by with no trace of the Malaysia Airlines flight ...

oscar_pistorius_AP150961250065_620x350 Oscar Pistorius vomited in court on Monday as he heard a pathologist's testimony about the nature of his girlfriend's injuries after he fatally shot her. The repeated vomiting caused the judge to briefly delay the ...

If you want to take advantage of iOS 7.1, the latest update to Apple Inc.'s /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL operating system for mobile devices, which the company released on Monday, the first thing to do is start deleting some of those ...

FIRST, conversations of Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured), France's former president, were secretly recorded by one of his own advisers. Now it turns out that he has had his phone bugged for nearly a year by investigating judges. More than the first snooping affair, ...

A simple blood test has the potential to predict whether a healthy person will develop symptoms of dementia within two or three years. If continuously successful, the test has the potential to fill a major gap in strategies to combat brain degeneration, which is ...

Something to talk about. "Cosmos," the much-touted reboot of Carl Sagan's classic TV series, debuted last night, bringing real science back to television. The affable, engaging astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson capably hosted. Trending on Twitter.

The two men who used stolen passports to board a Malaysian jetliner that went missing on Saturday were not of Asian appearance, the chief Malaysian investigator said on Monday. He also said an oil slick suspected of coming from the wreckage was not jet ...

Whether live or delayed, the testimony of expert witnesses is prone to misinterpretation, over-interpretation, and even under-interpretation. Oscar Pistorius. (AFP). Forensic pathologist Gert Saayman is an excellent witness even measured against his expert ...

Geneva — UN investigators left for the Central African Republic Monday to launch a probe into human right violations in the conflict-ravaged country amid fears of genocide and ethnic cleansing. The three international investigators will spend two weeks ...

Part of the reason we can't have nice things, say intelligent conversations about a game's visual particulars, is that we're our own worst enemies. Use the words “Xbox One” and “720p” (or “not 1080p”) in a sentence, for instance, and you might as well be ...

For months, Kiev's central Independence Square was the center of a struggle between protesters and the Ukrainian government, with Russian authorities watching the events unfold in their neighbor to the west with unease. Over a warm Women's Day ...

Simferopol, Ukraine (CNN) -- Russia accused far-right groups Monday of "conniving" with the new authorities in Ukraine, as pro-Moscow forces consolidated their hold on their neighbor's Black Sea peninsula. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry ...

Pathologists have given evidence about the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp in the murder case against Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. Listening to details of the autopsy, Pistorius was physically sick in court. Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius ...

Google is branching out in the wearable technology market, with the release of a software development kit. It would allow developers to create wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers using the Android operating system. Google's senior ...

Predicting Alzheimer's could be as easy as a quick blood test, a breakthrough discovery suggests. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center believe a simple blood test could detect with 90 percent accuracy whether or not a healthy individual will ...

Armed men fired in the air as they moved into a Ukrainian naval post in Crimea today, a Ukrainian defence official in the region was quoted as saying by local media. Related Articles. David Cameron: Russians could face asset freeze and travels bans to UK if ...

The roof-raising finale of True Detective will justifiably dominate discussion of the weekend's television (I'm never going to look at flowers or dolls quite the same way), but last night also saw the premiere of the new Cosmos. I loved the original series, so I ...