Climate talks in Durban are on track to help poor and vulnerable nations deal with increasingly fierce heatwaves, storms and drought.

Key meetings unfolding in the coming week may determine whether a two-year effort to combat climate change will triumph or be written off as a flop.

A draft global pact on climate change has boosted UN talks, already deep into overtime, but negotiators are worried it's a little too late.

By mid-century, getting it on with an electronic femme fatale or a superstud sexbot will become an accepted part of the human landscape, predicts David Levy, a PhD in gender studies and artificial intelligence and author of Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relations.

Cellphone users may be at increased risk from brain cancer and should use SMSing and hands-free devices to reduce exposure.

A study shows that climate change is reducing the size of many animals and plants, including some which supply nutrition for over a billion people.

A cheap, highly portable blood test has proven to be as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting infectious diseases.

Scientists have entered a new path for regenerative medicine by altering age-worn cells in people over 90 into rejuvenated stem cells.