SCIENCE

The Google team has fulfilled their promise to digitally archive images of areas in major and coastal cities in Japan that were damaged due to the earthquake and tsunami that struck in March 11, 2011.

Now you can have your own personal smell. A team from Keio University in Tokyo and the National University of Singapore have developed a pair of glasses that have speakers and scent emitters to give users their own unique calling card.

Some 4,000 duck-like migratory birds crash-landed in the parking lot of a Cedar City Wal-Mart store and other snow-covered grounds in southern Utah on Monday night.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has started work even before it reaches Mars by monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars to determine the environment that an astronaut would encounter on a future human mission to the Red Planet.

Technological gadgets like mobile phones and computers are not to blame for sleep decline, according to a study published in The Medical Journal of Australia.

The prospect of an energy source that is environmentally clean and free has also been considered a Utopian ideal, something that won't happen in real life. Andrea Rossi's Energy Catalyzer or E-Cat for short is now promising to bring about that Utopia as the dream of cheap energy could suddenly become real.

Living forever has been a pipe dream for many scientists. Now some scientists are researching ways to extend the human lifespan and they think immortality is possible for people living today.

Newt Gingrich is surging in polls ahead of the 2012 GOP presidential primaries, making the former House speaker a household name again after years on the sidelines. And as he returns to the limelight, many are quickly rediscovering his independent streak.

Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen announced Tuesday that he and aerospace engineer Burt Rutan are building the largest aircraft that can launch a satellite or spacecraft into orbit.

Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission controllers have one last chance to establish communication with the doomed spacecraft starting Tuesday at 17:00 UTC through Wednesday at 23:00, when conditions will make the odds even grimmer.

Asthma has afflicted millions of people around the world, leaving them literally breathless. In fact, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology's figures show that more than 20 million Americans, which is around 1 out of 15, suffer from the disease accounting for nearly half a million hospitalizations in the United States yearly. However, these asthma attacks can be prevented, researchers found.

China will definitely raise the bar for natural gas importation as it gets more aware of the impacts of its fuel emission contributions to the environment over the last decade.

Canada is withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, according to its Environment Minister Peter Kent.

The world’s smallest frogs, measuring only 8 to 9 mm in length, have recently been discovered by researcher Fred Kraus in southeastern New Guinea. The newly discovered frog species are also now the world’s smallest tetrapods or non-fish vertebrates.

Modern technologies like the everyday laptop and the widely available Wi-Fi routers make life more convenient for everyone. However, what could be technologically convenient could be sexually inconvenient as laptops and Wi-Fi connection hurt what men prize the most - their fertility.

A new study suggests that Mercury’s strange spin may have been caused by collision with a giant asteroid, which may have also caused Caloris Basin, Mercury's largest impact crater.

A new study has confirmed that climate change caused the dying of trees in a region in Africa.

Dutch scientists have developed a mutant version of the deadly bird flu virus that could spread to humans.

Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research have been experimenting with particles that may seem esoteric to the layman. One of these mysterious particles being studied by the physicists at CERN is antimatter, the twin to matter particles that make up everything in the universe

A new project that looks into the connection between infant footprints and vaccination records could improve vaccination programs in the developing world has received funding from Grand Challenges Explorations initiative.

Consumers from the states of California, Arizona, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Indiana, South Carolina and Missouri who may have bought the herb cilantro produced by California-based food provider Pacific International from Nov. 16 to Dec. 10 are advised to return or dispose the product as these are suspected to be contaminated of the bacteria salmonella.

Japan has successfully launched a radar reconnaissance satellite rode into orbit Monday boosting the country’s intelligence-gathering capacity. It was the second launch for the year, following a successful liftoff in September.

Animals exhibiting homosexual behavior have been raising the eye brows of some people nowadays. With the recent event of Canada's gay-penguin controversy and China's zoo giving a same-sex penguin couple a chance to raise their own child splashed across every newspaper, it seems like gay animals are making their own statement in the world today.

The increasing number of droughts estimated to occur within the next hundred years may result in massive food shortages and social unrest, experts suggest.

A recent study by Australian scientists showed that large parts of Mars could sustain terrestrial life, though most of it underground.

As tempting as it may be to eat raw cookie dough, scientists who investigated the 2009 outbreak of E.coli in the United States recommend baking the cookie dough before eating it.

Breast cancer survivors have a lot to contend with: recovering their health, dealing with the experience, and living life with a changed perspective. However, new research findings suggest that survivors of breast cancer have another thing to deal with - cognitive problems.

People go to bars to find someone; whether it is for a fling or a long-term relationship, people flock to these establishments to have a good time. Most of the time though, people who go to bars are looking for either alcohol or a hook up, or both. But a new study might change the minds of those who drink alcohol and look for sex.

Scientists are eagerly anticipating the report to be made public Tuesday on data from two main experiments using the Large Hadron Collider, that will finally resolve questions on whether or not the Higgs boson or “God particle” exists.