SCIENCE

Space tours will soon be a reality with the announcement of the Virginia-based Space Adventure of their plants to offer trips around the moon to space tourists five years from now.

Russia plans to spend almost $12 billion on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, and to build the world's most powerful laser research station at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion.

More and more Aussies are avoiding toxic products when they shop for cleaning products.

Is it okay with you that your doctor is on the payroll of a pharmaceutical company?

Some men are genetically predisposed to be 50 per cent more likely to get heart disease.

More than cigarettes and alcohol, social media and email is more addicting, according to the findings of a new study.

An international team of scientists have created the world's first biological computer that is made from biological molecules and can decode images stored and encrypted within DNA.

A new study at Sydney’s Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute showed that traits can be changed through “epigenetic” changes, which could have implications for a number of trends and changes in our population, such as the obesity epidemic.

A few hundred million years from now the Earth will have a vastly different geography. A new prediction for the future sees the Americas and Asia fusing together at the north to form one supercontinent called Amasia.

Researchers have found new forms of life that are totally unkown in underwater caves in the Bahamas called “blue holes.” These caves can provide clues on how life evolved not only on Earth but possibly on alien worlds, researchers said.

The field of neuroscience has made huge breakthroughs in recent years and soon it could provide new weapons that could attack enemy forces by disabling parts of their minds, according to a report from the UK.

NASA’s spaceship development program enters its third phase by offering funding for two U.S. firms to design and build space transport systems for ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

By end February, residents and travellers plying the routes of China's municipality of Beijing will slowly get to experience inhaling cleaner air as the municipality government undertakes to introduce the first batch of liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered public buses.

A new study found that having a simple, easy-to-pronounce name is more likely to win you friends and favour in the workplace.

How do you think of a world without animals? In the 1982 film “Bladerunner” directed by Ridley Scott, most of the animals in the world had become extinct and people had taken to artificial animals, to substitute for the real thing. That world appears near to realization, thanks to the "ambivalent" relations of humans and animals

Spongebob’s pet snail Gary and his kind are apparently unaccounted for in current climate change models. Already, they are extinct from the minds of scientists working on the effects of climate change, and that got to stop.

From 165 million years in the past the mating call of the prehistoric katydids can now be heard again thanks to the efforts of an international team of scientists.

It's too soon to say if Russian scientists are the first people to reach the buried Antarctic lake, according to Valery Lukin, director of the Russian Antarctic program.

Want to store up to 2000 years of iTunes music? You would think that’s impossible but you haven’t met the new supercomputer installed at the University of Western Australia (UWA).

Biofuel may soon power the US Navy, as it eyes a technology being developed by researchers at the Queensland University of Technology.

With the effects of climate change, which is mainly attributed to carbon emissions, gaining urgency, the search for alternative source of energy becomes more pressing. Acoustic fusion can potentially provide "green," inexpensive and virtually inexhaustible energy.

With the effects of climate change, which is mainly attributed to carbon emissions, gaining urgency, the search for alternative source of energy becomes more pressing. Acoustic fusion can potentially provide "green," inexpensive and virtually inexhaustible energy.

A new book is set to shake things up like Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” when it hits shelves this March.

UN investigating reports of illegal mining for ice and cites claims of ice theft from the Jorge Montt glacier in Chile.

CEBU, Philippines - A 6.8 magnitude quake near the islands of Cebu and Negros in southern Philippines on Monday at 11:00 a.m.

Experts at the University of Southern Queensland will employ the online virtual world Second Life in a bid to disseminate information on future climate changes they managed to predict to regional farmers through out the world.

Australians could be exposed to an increased risk from toxic contamination due to flooding and other effects of climate change.

Scientists are proposing for the regulation of sugar by governments worldwide due to its toxic effect to the human body, much like alcohol and tobacco.

Scientists can't predict the exact time when a volcano will erupt but clues from an ancient super-volcano explosion could reveal ways to calculate when the next massive eruption.