Four leading Japanese robotic companies have joined forces to outcompete South Korea, which recently announced legislation to develop more robots for common household use.
Jatropha, a hardy biofuel plant grown in salty soils near the Indian Ocean, may reduce biofuels' competition with food-producing crops, industry officials say.
In the matriarchal Mosuo culture of southwestern China, women own property and determine family relationships. But this so-called free-love society is under threat from modernization.
Landslides following the May 12 earthquake have destroyed forests and
blocked roads, leaving just a five-month bamboo supply for pandas in a
Chengdu breeding center.
In the Israeli desert, a U.S.-Israeli team is testing a new technology that uses mirrors to harness the sun's rays and create electricity-producing steam.
The World Day Against Child Labour raised awareness of the plight of child laborers around the world -- most of whom are impoverished and have no chance for a formal education.
An entire village inside a mountain is home to China's last known cave dwellers. It's a difficult life, but for the children, there's still room to play.
Undercover agents with a wildlife-trade investigation group report that they recently found illegal tiger bone wine for sale in two Chinese safari parks.
The remains of a palace thought to have been used by the emperor Moctezuma (also called Montezuma) have been unearthed in Mexico City, archaeologists say.
