SCIENCE

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.

Just in time to herald the holidays, two beautiful sights in space caught the interest of amateur and professional astronomers alike.

Holographic videos have been the ultimate dream for many scientists and manufacturers but unfortunately for consumers the technology doesn't exist outside of science fiction. Truly immersive video that is capable of creating images that are truly three-dimensional is still a fantasy. The closest developers have gotten to real holographic video displays have resulted in blurry images like Microsoft's 3D HoloDesk which used the Xbox Kinect sensor and mirrors to allow users to manipulate 3D s...

As far as the old saying “waste not, want not” goes, people have long been practicing the act of conservation –utilize of everything that can be used so as not to waste anything in the process. But this old motto comes to life as news of elephant poop being turned into paper makes headlines.

Russia’s doomed Phobos Grunt mission to Mar’s moon is confirmed to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere in January, but where will it fall?

The Australian weather bureau cancelled on Thursday a cyclone watch it made for Cape York in Queensland. The bureau explained its move to changes in ex-tropical cyclone Grant.

Amid the spate of train accidents in Australia involving shipment of minerals, BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) assured on Thursday that the route it would take to move toxic products from its Olympic Dam expansion is safe.

Anyone who's ever flown knows the drill before take-off. Seatbelts on and turn off all electronic devices. However according to a study conducted by U.S.A Today more people are refusing to turn off their electronic devices even during take-off, flight and landing. What are the effects of these electronic devices to a plane? Will they really cause a plane to drop out of the sky?

Great news for coffee lovers, research suggests that your daily dose of caffeine could help reduce the risk of developing endometrial cancer by as much as 25 percent.

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has granted Natcore a license to develop its patented black silicon technology. Natcore expects to deliver the first commercial black silicon product in 2012.

A brainless amoeboid yellow slime could be the key to figuring out human intelligence and help Japanese researchers build future bio-computers.

Food allergies can strike anyone, at any age, and anywhere when it is triggered. And since it can be fatal, properly identifying if a person has one is critical. However, new findings are stirring up clinicians as diagnosing people through some basic tests alone aren’t enough to identify these food allergies.