SCIENCE

After two failed predictions on the end of the world, “doomsday” minister Harold Camping is “not predicting any new dates for the end of the world,” according to Family Radio spokesperson.

Himalaya USA, a family owned company that manufactures personal healthcare products since 1930, has voluntarily recalled Organique by Himalaya Nourishing Night Cream due to the presence of staphylococcus aureus and fungus.

A massive volcano located in Germany is showing signs that it's ready to blow, at least according to a report from The Daily Mail. The Laacher See Volcano situated under a lake near Bonn could spew enough ash to cover all over Europe.

Duke University's Carbon Offsets Initiative has helped a North Carolina farm solve a waste problem without making a stink.

Researchers are working on a technique that could help ease depression in patients for at least two years.

There's been a rash of reported UFO sightings in the days leading to New Years and even during the New Year's Eve celebrations with alien ships being spotted all over the world.

For more than twenty years, researchers and doctors have been feverishly working at developing anti-cancer vaccines that use the body's own defenses to fight the disease. Soon patients can expect cancer treatments to include therapeutic vaccines aside from the traditional radiation and chemotherapy.

'Science Ink' highlights the skin art of biologists, geologists, physicists and more.

The New Year's resolutions of most Australians are predictable as they tend to make the same promises year in and year out.

A resident of Narrabri accused Australian mining firm Santos of causing the death of trees at the Pilliga State Forest due to the coal seam water that leaked from a dam operated by the company.

Construction of the world’s largest telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), will finally push through with the approval of the funding for the project, according to the European Southern Observatory.

As the New Year starts to roll, people came out of 2011 with full bellies during the holidays and a New Year’s resolution in mind. Whether a person is just wary of getting their blood sugar too high, cutting back on sweets, or they made it their resolution to reduce sugary treats, everyone can benefit from cutting back on sugar as the new year kicks off.

Can the human body be used as a renewable source of energy? Scientists and researchers are looking for ways to harness human power as a viable means of clean energy.

Australian chemical giant Orica (ASX: ORI) reopened on Tuesday its ammonia plant in Kooragang Island. The facility was shuttered in August after hexavalent chromium spilled on Hunter River and to more than 70 homes in Stockton.

Australian fishermen are blaming the ongoing dredging at Queensland Harbour for the fish kills that have affected their livelihood. The dredging of 46 million tons of sediments at Gladstone Harbour is part of the $30-billion project to expand the port to accommodate more coal-seam gas export to Asia.

GREEN with envy? We list the top 10 universities in Australia, according to their environmental credentials.

A finger thought to be the finger from the mysterious Yeti has been disproven as the cryptid's appendage by DNA analysis.

If doomsday soothsayers are to be believed, the world has less than a year to exist because everything's going to end on December 21, 2012.

Telepresence robots is an innovative idea that could have serious implications for professionals in the next few years.

Doctors from the Mayo Clinic in the United States plan to sequence the full genetic code of thousands of people that could lead to personalized health care.

Green Cedar Dairy Products Inc., a private company based in Dearborn, Michigan, has recalled two of its products due to the fact that it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes which may cause listeriosis.

British scientists have discovered an astonishing range of creatures living in one of the most inhospitable regions of the deep sea.

Australia's federal government announced on Friday that it would extend financial assistance to communities hit by ex-tropical cyclone Grant. The money could be used to repair damaged bridges and roads and to help the battered areas recover.

NASA officials warned that Earth is likely to face more solar storms through 2012 and 2013 as the sun goes through an increasing state of activity.

Shift work has become rampant not only among developing countries, but developed countries alike with the United States having around 15 million shift workers. Being charmed by either a large salary or the promise of no traffic and a sense of solitude that night brings, people flock to jobs that offer shift work. But many dangers reside with this type of schedule of work and one newly discovered of which is unhealthy eating.

After suffering a setback when a rocket crashed early last week, Russia was able to recover with the successful launching of a Soyuz rocket with six communications satellites into orbit on Dec. 28.

A beluga whale at a Japanese aquarium is stealing the show from other animals at the aquarium as she blows bubbles and waves at passing tourists.

A link between a high-fat diet and brain damage has been discovered by a team of American scientists, according to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

By 2013, a new super painkiller containing highly addictive pure hydrocodone may be on the market.