SCIENCE

Knee pains are one of the most debilitating punishment people can take on their joints. Plaguing both sexes, but more so for women, it is to be expected as one reaches middle age. With such crippling pain, a new 12-year study done may offer insights as to how much this really affects women.

Effective Jan. 1, China will start implementing a modified Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law that imposes a corresponding higher tax levy for vehicles with an engine size of 2 liters and above.

Recession has taken its toll even on the NASA which stands to lose an additional $325 million under the omnibus spending package that will soon be voted upon in the U. S. Senate.

New study claims that letting babies cry — without intervening — could lead to higher incidences of ADHD, anxiety and developmental disorders.

Republicans in Congress have delayed part of a 2007 law that would require U.S. light bulbs to be more energy-efficient, scoring a symbolic victory.

Typhoon Washi, locally known as Sendong, struck the Philippines hard late last Friday and caused landslides and flash floods that killed over six hundred and fifty people.

Climate change will result to a massive shift in the Earth’s vegetation by 2100 when the world’s greenhouse gas emissions would have doubled, a new study revealed, based on a computer model to project how the world’s vegetation would shift in the next three centuries.

Embryonic cells and sperm collected from two species of coral that live in the Great Barrier Reef are being preserved in frozen repository that could someday restore some of the corals to the reef.

A new study has found that the hydrogen and helium gases that made Jupiter a gas giant is destroying the planet’s very core, leading astronomers to believe that most massive extrasolar planets have no cores at all, changing the view scientists have long held of these distant worlds.

Cancer has become a normal occurrence in the world nowadays. And as unfortunate as it is, cancer can occur in different parts of the body. However, one in four cancers being diagnosed around the world involves the lung, and is still one the contributors when it comes to the most common cancer-related cause of death among Americans.

Can second-hand coke be as dangerous as second-hand smoke? This will be a new area for research as a new study has found that regions with high level of cocaine and marijuana use have higher concentrations of cocaine in the atmosphere.

Forget the ordinary jetpack that just propels you the air, the future is water-powered jetpacks. French jet-ski champion Franky Zapata designed a water craft that has him leaping up from the water like a human-dolphin hybrid.

Traumatic experiences can change life in an instant. Whether it's a car crash, losing a loved one, or sexual abuse, these sorts of incidents can scar a person for life, but not without coming from it with a changed perspective and a tougher skin.

A newly discovered comet, categorized by astronomers as a “sungrazer, had survived a suicidal rendezvous with the sun’s more than 3.6. million degrees farenheit temperature. Astronomers had earlier predicted that the comet will be destroyed once it dives into the sun’s hellish atmosphere.

Astronomers have allayed fears of doomsday 2012 supernova explosion, saying that given the vastness of the universe the long times between supernovae, there is no threatening star close enough to hurt the Earth.

Researchers are now pursuing geochemical detective work to discover the mystery on the Christmas Island seamounts or underwater mounters, that dot the ocean floor of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

Russia’s doomed Phobos-Grunt mission is expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere between Jan. 6 to Jan. 19, but space officials allayed fears that the toxic fuel and radioactive materials will be pose danger when the vehicle makes it fiery plunge.

From being regarded as a largely dead science, cold fusion has grabbed the attention of mainstream media and the scientific community when high-profile demonstrations in Italy allegedly showed a cold fusion device generating 470 watts for five hours. The device, called the E-Cat or Energy Catalyzer was developed by Andrea Rossi, Italian inventor and entrepreneur and Sergio Focardi, a physicist at the University of Bologna. The E-Cat reportedly fuses nickel and hydrogen at low temperatures to rel...

New developments in the field of Alzheimer's research could lead to finding a cure for the devastating mental decline of Alzheimer's patients and even distinguish which people are in the early stages of dementia.

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking has come under fire lately. The process involves fracturing rocks by pressurized fluids to release petroleum, natural gas, coal seam gas and other substances.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has began a new phase in its mission called "low-altitude mapping orbit,” is in an excellent position to have a closer look yet at the asteroid Vesta as it zooms nearer to the giant space rock's surface.

A supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way could swallow a gas cloud heading towards it which could generate flares of radiation, astronomers say.

It's tempting to just indulge this Christmas season. After all it only happens once a year and what's the harm in taking part in the celebration? Unfortunately with all the parties and dinners taking place around the holidays it's easy to fall of your diet. With so many sumptuous feasts laid out this holiday season, how can you resist another slice of pie or a piece of roast? Here are some traditional foods you need to avoid this Christmas season.

A report released by Roy Morgan showed that 63 per cent of New Zealanders are obese. The New Zealand State of the Nation Report 3 covers a decade and 120,000 interviews.

NASA has announced a new procurement strategy by will allow U. S. companies to transport astronauts into space instead of outsourcing this job to foreign government, providing momentum to America’s commercial space program.

Australian researchers have recently found more than 1,000 new species in the underground of the Australian Outback and estimate around 3,500 beneath.

Australia has joined the United States, New Zealand and the Netherlands in condemning Japan's annual whale hunt in Antarctica which starts Friday.

The dread of those with weak lungs or those with asthma is allergens. Being almost everywhere, it can be found inside homes as well as out. And true enough, according to latest research, the combined force of diesel exhaust and a dusty house can aggravate the lungs that can worsen bronchial asthma.

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.