Iranian scientists have created green-glowing mice to demonstrate their expertise in sophisticated genetic-engineering techniques.

Experts say the multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean is melting at an extraordinarily fast rate, opening polar shipping routes.

Technology stars, pundits, and entrepreneurs have joined the Internet's father to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.

NASA's Ares I-X test rocket has successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a day after bad weather delayed its launch.

Iranian High Council of Cultural Revolution has announced that February 3 will be the National Day of Space Technology.

Iran's Department of the Environment has warned that Iran is among the 10 countries which cause the most environmental destruction in the world.

NASA has delayed the launch of a prototype rocket to replace the aging space shuttle fleet because of bad weather.

Beams of particles have been successfully injected into the Large Hadron Collider — for the first time since the LHC was shut down last year.

Iranian students top the 3rd edition of the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics held in the capital city of Tehran.

The US space agency, NASA, has planned to test launch a prototype rocket this week in order to examine the possibility of a manned trip to the Moon and maybe beyond to Mars.

Italian scientists have reported that a two-year-old girl, who presented gait disturbance and difficulty in using her right hand, has a single brain hemisphere.

As the number of bird flu infected cases often peak during the mating season, scientists claim the virus can be a sexually transmitted infection - at least in ducks.

The fossils of one of the smallest dinosaurs ever discovered has been put on public display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Two Iranian scientists are among the under 35 innovators of 2009 chosen by the MIT published Technology Review.

The 3rd International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics has been opened with a ceremony in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Polar scientists have warned of an ice-free arctic summer within a period of 20 years, which will raise sea levels and harm wildlife.

The latest studies show polar ice caps are melting at a record rate and there will be no trace of frozen Arctic Ocean during summers within 10 years.

US researchers have revealed the 3D structure of the human genome, the long strands of DNA code folded and tightly packed into the nucleus of a human cell.

A new study hints at a '100-fold' speedier consumption of cosmic energy, which will cause the death of the universe to occur sooner than previously expected.

A NASA rocket has successfully crashed into a crater on the moon to raise a debris plume, an experiment that allows scientists to look for traces of ice and water in the perpetually dark lunar craters.

Despite a surge in the number of European television news networks, the industry feels threatened as its audience has found the Internet a more palatable news source.

The cyberspace could serve as the main battleground for future wars, says the United Nations' secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

The 2009 Nobel Chemistry Prize has been awarded to another trio for their work on ribosome and contribution to X-ray crystallography.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted the largest, but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, scientists have said.

Iran is planning to send another research satellite into space by late March, the country's Aerospace Research Institute announced.

NASA is preparing to launch the LCROSS mission to bomb the moon's South Pole, as part of the agency's search for water in space.

The 2009 Nobel Physics Prize has been granted to three scientists for their pioneering work on fiber optics and semi-conductors.

Scientists have called for reforms in the Nobel Prize system, including the number of prizes, hoping to reflect changes in science since the award was invented.

Iranian photographer, science journalist and amateur astronomer Babak Amir-Tafreshi has been granted the 2009 Lennart Nilsson Award.

An Indian satellite has detected water molecules on the moon casting doubt on the basic beliefs as to the composition of the lunar surface.

India's space research organization has successfully put seven satellites, including six from foreign countries, into orbit.

Russia has postponed its satellite mission to Mars' moon for two years, a move that will also lead to a delay in the joint launch of China's first Mars probe.

NASA's space shuttle Discovery has landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after ending a 13 day-mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts have pulled away from the International Space Station (ISS) to head back to Earth.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) needs an extra $3 billion a year in a bid to conduct meaningful missions, a White House panel has said.

Iranian university students at Qazvin's Azad University -- northwest of Tehran -- have designed and produced a new two-seat electric car.

Iranian researchers have developed an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) putting the country among ten leading countries possessing this nano-technology.

As Google and Yahoo's compete to win the world, ImHalal, a new “Halal” search engine that filters out content based on Islamic principles emerges to appeal to Muslim users.

Our nearest major galactic neighbor, the vast Andromeda galaxy, appears to be a cosmic cannibal that has expanded by digesting stars from other galaxies.

NASA has been keeping a close watch on a flying 19-square-meter piece of a space junk and hopes the debris causes no serious threats to the space shuttle Discovery.

Iranian experts have developed a two-seat plug-in car, which has the necessary standards to be mass-produced for use in urban areas.

One of the world's first two cloned wolves has died for unknown reasons, a scientist at Seoul National University has said.

India's first moon mission controllers lost radio contact with the country's only satellite orbiting the moon, the national space agency has reported.

NASA space shuttle Discovery has eventually succeeded in its third attempt to get into space from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

A forest of 100,000 synthetic trees is to be planted within two decades to save the earth by fighting climate change and reducing global warming.

NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) for the second time due to a critical fuel valve failure.

NASA is continuing the countdown for Tuesday's launch of the space shuttle, Discovery, and its crew of seven for the International Space Station (ISS) in Low Earth Orbit.

Archeologists have unearthed two ancient skulls and two ancient seals in Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reports.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced the next expansion for World of Warcraft, the world's largest internationally played massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Undermining what has long been considered as irrefutable proof in investigation of criminal cases, scientists announce that DNA evidence found at crime scenes can "easily" be fabricated.

Iran has managed to develop the first artificial lung to join the other five countries in the world which possess the technology.

Iranian students have collected gold and silver medals at the 21st International Olympiad in Informatics held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

The NSS Labs, an independent security product testing lab, has found Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 to be the most secure browser to date.

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction compared to the rotation of its host star.

A new study shows that one-third of Europeans have never used the internet and more than one in every four European has never used a computer.

Scientists have decoded the entire genetic structure of the HIV virus, the starting place to understand AIDS infection and to develop new antiviral drugs.

Scientists have successfully prevented epilepsy secondary to a faulty gene from being passed down to next generations in mice.

The US space shuttle Endeavor has safely touched down in Florida after spending 16 days on the International Space Station in the orbit.

The crews of space shuttle Endeavour, who are expected to return by Friday, are to prepare for their re-entry through Earth's atmosphere.

Like his identical twin, Iran and the Middle East's second cloned calf has died because of a high fever of unknown origin.