SCIENCE

No-fishing zones implemented to protect the Moreton Bay ecosystem have proven their worth in light of last year's flooding however the coral reefs and seagrass habitats are still at risk.

Ask most people why they got into Aquaponics and they'll tell you that its about "food security" or eating "healthy food" or to maintain an interest in an "unusual hobby" and these are all valid points but the real answer when you dig a little deeper is that most people are bone lazy when it comes to pottering around in the garden, digging up weeds and all that back breaking work shifting compost and mulching stuff around.

The federal government of Australia announced on Tuesday night the sudden end to the $320-million solar hot water programme. The decision was part of the Gillard government's major revamp of its subsidy programmes.

Household appliances and other debris picked by tsunami waves and carried off to open seas during the massive quake that hit northeast Japan on March last year could soon reach U.S. territories this year and next year.

After implementing the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered public buses in Beijing, China, whose energy consumption rose by 7 per cent in 2011 over a year ago, will conduct a trial run of methanol-fuelled cars in three provinces effective March 2012.

It turns out that the Gates family legacy has long been one of trying to dominate and control the world's systems, including in the areas of technology, medicine, and now agriculture.

The first known horses were the size of house cats, weighing only 8 pounds but before they could evolve to the stately creatures they are today horses shrank even smaller because of global warming.

Dolphins and whales deserve the same rights as humans do, according to a group of marine workers, philosophers and animal welfare activists who talked to scientists meeting in Canada.

Desk-confined employees would be able to ward off considerable health risks if they take a break every 20 minutes and flex some muscles.

A new technique that could provide a prosthetic limb that moves and responds like an actual flesh and blood limb has been a major goal for researchers and physicians for years. Now a joint project by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has found a way for amputees to gain better control over their prosthetics with help from their own nervous systems.

Bats have been hosting flu virus for many years, according to a new research findings published on Monday by scientists working for the U.S.-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Influenza, commonly known as flu, affects as many as one in five Americans each year, while more than 200,000 get hospitalized due to seasonal flu-related complications, yet many still do not get vaccinated, reports said.

Our galaxy is filled with rogue planets that don't orbit around a star, according to researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. In fact there could be thousands, perhaps billions of "nomad planets" hurtling around the galaxy and far outnumbering the stars.

All of us are becoming more aware of the need to encompass sustainable living into the future. Gone are the wasteful days of using electricity as though there was no tomorrow and the utter waste of fuel in all its forms has been nothing less than disgraceful.

Choosing a tank suitable for aquaponics is probably a no brainer. Many people grab the first thing that suits their budget, but not all tanks are the same and some can positively damage your health and kill all your fish.

Did you know that vaccinating your cat with the typical, recommended feline vaccination schedule may lead to your furry friend developing cancer?

What if it was possible to eliminate much of the world's otherwise very-slowly-biodegrading plastic waste using a natural Amazonian fungus?

With space opening up for private sector entrepreneurs it was only a matter of time for businessmen to turn to more prurient interests. Playboy and space tourism company Virgin Galactic are teaming to imagine the first Playboy Club in outer space.

Before, to be diagnosed with the big C seemed to be an implied death sentence. Patients even go through a stage of self-denial. Who can blame them? Conventional medicine paints a rather bleak future for cancer patients and the remedy it offers does nothing to improve their quality of life, nausea and falling hair not to mention.

The expression "he/she died of a broken heart" is often used to describe someone who has died after having been depressed for a long time. Usually that person drinks or drugs himself/herself to death after a desperate period of loss, bitter disappointment, or environmentally induced depression.

After thousands of years Western medicine is finally recognising the benefits of meditation to treat diseases including mental illness. Under the disguise of MBCT, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, meditation is being accepted as a way to treat various conditions in the field of mental illnesses.

Simultaneous targeting of two different molecules in cancer is an effective way to shrink tumors, block invasion, and stop metastasis, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found - work that may improve the effectiveness of combination treatments that include drugs like Avastin.

Mitochondria, tiny structures within each cell that regulate metabolism and energy use, may be a promising new target for cancer therapy, according to a new study.

Reyna Robles was always the first one up and the last one to bed: she possessed more than enough steam to come home from her full-time job, prepare a meal for her husband and children, take her dogs for walk and help her kids with homework.

Here's another development in science that seems to have been taken from science fiction. Chemists at LMU Munich in collaboration with colleagues from Berkeley and Bordeaux have shown that it is possible to inhibit pain sensitive neurons using an agent that acts as a photosensitive switch.

The sky might be a little closer to the Earth according to NASA satellite image data. Over the last ten years, the height of cloud covers has been lowered by one percent or 30 to 40 meters.

Santos, a coal seam gas (CSG) mining company in Australia, admitted committing environmental errors in its Pilliga East State Forest operations. In a report to the New South Wales government which contained a review of its drilling operation, Santos said there were many instances of pollution, including leaks and spills, that were reported.

Is your dog a couch potato in desperate need of some quality television programming while you're at work? If you and your four-legged friend happen to live in the San Diego area, you're in luck.

American scientists reported on Wednesday what they called an important step that could prevent sudden deaths due to ventricular arrhythmia or abnormal heartbeat that usually occur during the early morning hours.