Taiwan has emerged as the top winner at the 2009 Nuremberg Invention Exhibition, capturing 26 gold medals, 26 silvers and 15 bronzes, plus the coveted team championship, at the conclusion of the fair Sunday.

It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: By 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.

Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.

A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about US$85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso.

A recent study by four academics, including professors from Harvard Business School and Duke University, suggests that online dating sites regularly leave users disappointed because they present potential matches as a rundown of characteristics — age, race, religion, income — that in no way embody the full measure of a person.

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, southern Taiwan yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the New York-based Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. to share science and technology information and engage in personnel exchanges.

The endangered black-faced spoonbills have migrated in record numbers to southern Taiwan to spend the winter this year.

Taiwan released a documentary featuring the Oriental Honey Buzzard — one of a number of protected raptors in Taiwan — at an international conference on honey buzzards that was opened Friday.

An Indonesia-based study shows carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening a case for their protection.

Marine biologists think they've figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin attacks.