Perkin-Elmer Corp. said it will join one of the leading researchers in the U.S. in a bold venture to speed up the decoding of human genes. Perkin-Elmer, a Norwalk, Connecticut, scientific instrument

Plutonium stockpiles reported to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna reveal that the stockpile of weapon-usable plutonium continues to grow dramatically and that controls to stem

The first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert in the United States. The official total of nuclear tests has since risen to more than 2,000 and U.S. leads the list with

Vast solar tornadoes, as wide as the Earth and gusting at up to 500,000 kilometres an hour, have been discovered by the European Space Agency's SOHO

In what is considered a major disarmament milestone, the five nuclear weapons states have decided to make public their plutonium stocks in civilian nuclear facilites and manage these by agreed

China's water resource sector has great potential to grab a larger share of international markets. So far, China has five units engaged in developing international cooperation with overseas investors

The country's defence scientists have been given the green signal to work on the second phase of the Agni intermediate range ballistic missile, said sources at the Defence Research Development

Even after the cold war, the US nuclear weapons programme costs $ 35.1 billion annually- to maintain the nuclear weapons and to clean up its human and environmental after effects, a liberal-think

Two famous surgeons Henery Grissin (Scotland) and Paul Gindoff (Washington) who produced the world's first cloned sheep "Dolly" will be participating in the international seminar on cloning to be

Iraq has arrested the scientist widely considered the father of Baghdad's germ weapons programme as he was preparing to flee the country. His arrest "deals a significant blow to the UN inspectors