Time travel could be a reality within just three months, Russian mathematicians have claimed.
They believe an experiment nuclear scientists plan to carry out in underground tunnels in Geneva in May could create a rift in the fabric of the universe.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hopes its "atom-smashing" tests - which aim to [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Scientists poring over a mass of studies into the response of pests to genetically-modified cotton say they have found the first confirmation that insects have developed resistance to transgenic crops.
University of Arizona entomologists looked at data from six experiments to monitor pests in fields sown with transgenic cotton and corn in Australia, [...]

PARIS (AFP) - France officially imposed Saturday a ban on a strain of genetically modified (GM) corn produced by the US agribusiness giant Monsanto, with the publication of an agriculture ministry order in the state’s official journal.
"The growing of corn seeds … derived from genetically modified corn strain MON810 is prohibited on [French] territory," read [...]

CHICAGO (AFP) - Scientists believe that a quantum leap in computing power and the development of powerful new telescopes will soon unravel the “cosmic web,” a theory by which the universe is bound by invisible threads of “dark matter.”
In a series of articles in Friday’s edition of Science magazine, leading astrophysicists explain how new technologies [...]

The infamous Tunguska explosion, which mysteriously leveled an area of Siberian forest nearly the size of Tokyo a century ago, might have been caused by an impacting asteroid far smaller than previously thought.
The fact that a relatively small asteroid could still cause such a massive explosion suggests “we should be making more efforts at detecting [...]