A terrifying cross between Tyrannosaurus rex, a crocodile, and a whale was the largest predator ever to walk the Earth — or swim in its rivers.

Sensory technology will soon allow lonesome grandparents, separated from their loved ones by geography, to touch and embrace via the internet.

Tablets are being used in place of multiple insulin injections by doctors in Ireland to treat childhood diabetes.

Scientists have issued the first weather forecast for an alien “super-Earth” orbiting a star 40 light years away.

The detached dad, turning up his nose at nappies and too busy to bathe, dress and play with his kids, is mostly a myth, a big government survey suggests.

Academics can be dismissive of the concerns of the popular media. But when it comes to the growth of the super-rich, the tabloids may have gotten it right.

This is a tough time for experts.

Universities in the US have purchased x-rated domain names to prevent pornography practitioners from using them.

The reaction of the major faiths to intimate acts ranges from the bizarre to the insane, writes Suzanne Harrington

The International Monetary Fund will interview the two leading candidates for the top job at the world lending institution this week with the goal of naming a new chief by June 30.

A former psychiatric patient who was convicted in 2008 of stalking actress Uma Thurman tried to call her again, defying a court order to leave her alone after years of unwanted advances, officials said.

HUMANS may owe their place on the planet to a mass extinction of fish 360 million years ago, it has been claimed.

IF YOU have only read one economics book — and one is, understandably, too many for some people — it was probably Freakonomics.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s long tenure on the bestseller list is paying off. He and his wife, Michelle, made $2.7 million (€2m) last year, nearly all of it from his books.

ENCOURAGING very young children to communicate with gestures may help them learn to talk and do better at school, new research suggests.

MICHELLE OBAMA will bring the skills of a corporate lawyer to the White House if her husband wins the US presidency, but she says her priority will be her role as “mom-in-chief” to the couple’s daughters.

TWO Japanese citizens and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries that help explain the behaviour of the smallest particles of matter.

Two Japanese and an American have won the 2008 Nobel Prize for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today.

A forgotten melody, sketched in black ink in a swift, but sure hand, has been verified as the work of Mozart, the apparent underpinnings for a Mass he never composed.

FOSSILS unearthed in Africa have been identified as two new species of carnivorous dinosaur, a British university announced yesterday.

A PSYCHIATRIC condition that can be behind road rage is much more common than previously thought, according to a new US study.

When it comes to crime, we always start with the problem and the people who cause it.

I REFER to recent news media stories about me in the context of Pacific Western University, and I think that your readers should be informed of the facts.

NEW statistics on religious diversity show the US’s historic Protestant majority has plummeted to 52%, and by the end of 2004 it may no longer be the nation’s dominant religious group.

SCIENTISTS believe they have found the long-sought missing link between fish and land animals in the shape of the oldest known arm bone.

US Government officials claim three Chicago hospitals exaggerated the seriousness of the conditions of some patients so they could get liver transplants sooner.

THE Ba’ath Party ruled Iraq well before Iraqi President Saddam Hussein seized full control and it is likely to haunt Iraqi politics long after he disappears.

IRISH Americans who name their children after their favourite county could unwittingly be exposing their children to anti-black discrimination.

Scientists have discovered possible traces of the cosmic match that ignited the Big Bang and created the universe 14 billion years ago, according to reports today.