SCIENCE

The Perth Magistrates Court fined Barrick Gold on Thursday $140,000 for the death of miner Daniel Williams in August 2009. Mr Williams fell into an ore chute at the underground mine of Barrick's Kanowna Belle gold mine near Kalgoorlie.

Fans of the popular Japanese animated series, Gundam will be happy to note that there will soon be a real life 13 foot tall robot complete with a cockpit.

Farmers in 10 of Murray-Darling Basin's 23 communities would allow the flooding of their lands' easement covering more than 1 million hectares.

Heavy rains and flooding since Tuesday have killed 23 people in Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam prompting President Jakaya Kikwete to call on residents in affected valleys and lowland areas to evacuate.

A former whaling captain warned that Japan's annual whale hunt in Antarctica could hurt Australia's $300-million-a-year whale-watch industry.

With jingles being sung around the world, "Santa Claus is coming to town," scientists and experts find it to be a miracle as to how old St. Nick can do it. Even if it's just a one-time event, what he does every year is quite a feat. So with everything happening during Christmas, is Santa Claus really ok?

The moon isn't the only satellite Earth has according to astrophysicists from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Our planet actually gains and losses moons all the time.

DARPA, Pentagon’s research arm, has described its dream military space telescope that could gather intelligence anywhere in the world, doing away with the need for spy planes or drones.

A series of experiments conducted by Italian scientists have discovered that the Shroud of Turin could not have been faked with the technology that was available during the medieval period.

Bioengineers and biologists from the University of California San Diego have created neon signs made from millions of bacteria that light up in unison.

The changing climate has made it more difficult to predict weather patterns that could either be damaging to life and property. Some architects from the U.S. and Asia have devised the latest of designs in order for homes to withstand the wrath of Mother Nature.

Cowley County, Kansas - residents took video of the military pulling a covered item on a flatbed truck down U.S. Highway 77. Then quickly, a breeze of rumor strike indicating that the thing was an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO).

China, earnest in its campaign to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions through 2015, has set a pollution reduction goal for 2012.On Wednesday, the world's second-largest economy, which happens to be also the world's biggest energy consumer, announced that for the coming year 2012, it aims to reduce by 2 per cent its sulfur dioxide (SO2) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) as well as ammonia nitrogen by 1.5 per cent, apart from maintaining zero-growth in the emission of nitrogen oxides, the...

The Western Australian government rejected on Wednesday the application of LD Operations to run a coal mine at Osmington hear Margaret River.

Police officers are the day to day unsung heroes of the world; going about the wee hours of the night and making things better and safer for everyone. However, aside from the occupational hazard that comes with crime fighting, thanks to the long and shifting hours of work it seems like sleeping disorders are now considered another occupational hazard.

When people think about the Mediterranean, two things come to mind: a great place to go to, and great food. Though only some have the opportunity to go to the region, a lot of people know about their cuisine and how it is said to prolong life.

It was a bad year of Australia's insurance industry which had to pay out more than $4 billion in insurance claims due to the natural calamities that battered the country in 2011.

One of the most intriguing mysteries in the Bible is the location of the Star of Bethlehem, the star that led the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born. Astronomers have proposed countless theories about what the star might have been and where it could be located in the galaxy.

Could the next generation touch screen be made from paper?

A new study finds that limiting food intake can activate genes linked to longevity and brain function, which could lead to new treatments to extend life, improve memory and reduce risk of dementia.

NASA’s ongoing “Smart SPHERES” experiment has demonstrated how a smartphone controller can serve as remotely operated assistant after it successfully transmitted motion data gathered by a free-flying robot on the International Space Station to its astronaut handler.

Fiscal crisis stricken Germany, by far the eurozone's largest single investor in renewable energy, is all the more getting serious to wipe out its coal usage by 2020.

Researchers hope to assess the potential impact of global warming on marine ecosystems by examining tiny worms that inhabit the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered two small Earth-sized worlds orbiting a star in the Cygnus constellation. They're the smallest exoplanets found to date and an encouraging sign that Kepler could find planets as small as Earth.

The stressful life of today has got some people’s blood either boiling or their blood pressure shooting to the roof. However, new research might change things as those who have hypertension may need to dial it down to save their life.

ET watchers may be able to find an alien world through telescopes that may spot artificial lightings “out there.”

The La Niña in 2011 (reported to be one of the strongest to occur in recent years) was a major factor in several natural disasters that occurred all around the globe.

A new study has bolstered the medical use of maggots in cleaning wounds by removing dead and unhealthy tissues.

Findings of a new study showed that, contrary to long ago assumptions that destruction of giant volcanoes along subduction zones could add to earthquake risks, the opposite could be true.