Chinese archaeologists have discovered the remains of houses dating back 6,000 years in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Myanmar is striving to improve public internet services and planning to introduce 400 public internet service centers in 324 townships in the country within three years to facilitate communication links, according to local media.

John C. Mather from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the US and George F. Smoot, professor from University of California, Berkeley USA have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 has jointly gone to 47 year old Audrew Z. Fire, professor of Stanford University and 46 year old Craig C. Mello, professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

11-year-old He Mengxia has switched primary schools 3 times in the past five years, and Yongtai Primary School is her first state-run school.

A middle school in central China's Hunan Province that was founded by a private organization of the U.S. ivy league Yale University marked its 100th anniversary on Saturday.

Using a microwave probe of U.S. space agency NASA, scientists said they have evidence that the universe has a shape somewhat akin to an egg, rather than the expected round.

Struggling to keep up with iPod and Apple, Microoft on Thursday announced the release and cost of its Zune digital media player and online music store, Zune Marketplace.

China has opened an interactive Internet portal to help raise awareness of health and healthy lifestyles.

The United Kingdom is one step beyond in space medicine, an organizer of the 3rd UK Space Medicine Conference said on Sunday.