COMPUTER users frustrated by slow internet connections could soon be surfing the web 100 times faster, all thanks to new Australian technology.University of Sydney scientists say they have developed a new technology that could speed up the internet - and

The solar system may not be a nice round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring the solar system's outer limits, scientists said.Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 unmanned probes

What was before this universe is currently anybody's guess, but it is highly likely that it was preceded by a similar universe and therefore time existed before the Big Bang. The evidence to back this theory is said to be found in the Cosmic Microwave Bac

Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth's history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to advanced animals that walk on land.The 365 million-year-old fossil skull, shoulders and part of t

European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.Earth-like planets may be very common."Does every single star harbor planets and, if yes, ho

Rare and startling film has been captured of a human egg emerging from the ovary.Fertile women release one or more eggs every month, but until now, only fuzzy images had been recorded.The new images were taken by accident by gynaecologist Jacques Donnez w

Pluto, demoted from planet status in 2006, got a consolation prize on Wednesday -- it and other dwarf planets like it will be called plutoids.Plutoids will be defined as celestial bodies in orbit around the Sun farther away than Neptune. They must have ne

The first experimental bird flu vaccine made from lab-grown cells instead of chicken eggs shows promise in blocking the highly lethal virus, scientists report.It also would reduce dependence on the antiquated system of using millions of eggs to make flu v

Two rescued turtles have been freed into the wild in Italy, but experts will still be keeping an eye on them... Before they were let loose the turtles had tiny computers strapped to their backs to track how long they swim underwater, and how deep they

Whale hearts hold clues to making pacemakers and lizard skins are showing how to cut friction in electrical appliances as companies mimic nature to develop high-tech goods, a U.N.-backed report said on Wednesday."Biomimicry is a field whose time has come,