By Steve Jackson.As the scale of the disaster in Burma becomes clear, questions are being asked over how much the authorities knew about the magnitude of the approaching storm

Scientists in China have identified a single gene that appears to control rice yield, as well as its height and flowering time, taking what may be a crucial step in global efforts to increase crop productivity.

By Thomas Harding. China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region, it can be disclosed

It was the stench of the huge piles of seafood waste on the outskirts of her home town in Tamil Nadu which pushed Indian food scientist, Renuka Karuppuswamy, to consider a more useful purpose for the rotting waste.

"Genetic engineering is passé," said Pat Mooney, ETC Group. "Today, scientists aren't just mapping genomes and manipulating genes, they're building life from scratch, and they're doing it in the absence of societal debate and and regulatory oversight,"

The People and culture of Tibet

LHASA, China - China's Tibet problem got a human face this week in images of crying, red-robed monks, giving international concern a new focal point just as Beijing gears up for the arrival of the Olympic torch.

A man who pledged to help fund the Winnipeg human rights museum by rowing solo across the Atlantic Ocean has successfully completed his trip and arrives back in Canada this afternooon.

Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday.

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