A chemist who worked on testing of the Shroud of Turin says new analysis of the fibre indicates the cloth that some say was the burial linen of Jesus could be up to 3,000 years old.

The Shroud of Turin, believed by some to be Christ's burial cloth, is much older than previously thought, according to a new study.

Nasa scientists have recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule, which crashed this week in the Utah desert.

Scientists are beginning efforts to retrieve solar atoms from the crashed Genesis space capsule, a day after it plunged to earth and slammed into the Utah desert.

The nuclear laboratory that built the atomic bomb has halted all classified work while officials conduct a wall-to-wall inventory of sensitive data, following another embarrassing security breach.

A US DELEGATION flew to North Korea yesterday, hoping to visit a nuclear complex at the heart of the North’s atomic arms programme, as Pyongyang pitched what it called a “bold concession” to restart talks.

NORTH KOREA has agreed to allow a US delegation to visit its main nuclear complex next week, the first such inspection since the isolated communist country expelled UN monitors more than a year ago.

North Korea has agreed to allow a US delegation to visit its main nuclear complex next week, a South Korean official said today.

US Energy Department officials want the Los Alamos National Laboratory, known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, to create a special facility where scientists can work with infectious agents such as plague, anthrax and tuberculosis.

Authorities in the United States are on alert alert from coast to coast following the attacks in News York and Washington.