NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has broken the closest-approach mark to Pluto set by NASA’s Voyager 1 in January 1986.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 05, 2011
New evidence from the Large Hadron Collider will soon finally resolve questions on whether or not the Higgs boson or “God particle” exists.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 05, 2011
For a taste of what this conference will bring, NASA has released their finding of a new Earth-sized planet orbiting a star 352 light years away. The planet was named Kepler-21b and the star it is orbiting named HD 179070. The planet and star is just one of the hundreds of planets and stars found by the satellite orbiting Earth.
William Endo Dec 05, 2011
People get to meet a new friend or acquaintance each day in their everyday lives. But remembering them can be a whole different story because trying to recall someone's name and trying to recognize their face can be a difficult social issue. It's a common fact that people tend to forget faces, and this failure to recognize a face can lead to the embarrassing question: "Do I know you?"
Lord Jorrel Polintan Dec 05, 2011
Newly discovered stone artifacts that suggest humanity left Africa through the Arabian Peninsula could re-write early human history.
ranina sanglap Dec 05, 2011
The discovery of 18 new alien planets, all of which are Jupiter-sized and circle stars bigger than Earth’s sun, has brought to more than 700 the list of known exoplanets.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 05, 2011
The U.S. Space Surveillance/US STRATCOM has identified two objects associated to the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and both objects are rapidly decaying.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 05, 2011
It was June 5th 1981 that the world was suddenly awakened to the reality of a new disease that would become one of the most destructive diseases in human history.
ranina sanglap Dec 05, 2011
Nissan's zero-emission Leaf car has been getting a lot of media attention because it's environmentally friendly and very affordable for the ordinary consumer. Nissan is upping the ante with its new smart home that is totally off-the-grid and powered by the Leaf EV.
ranina sanglap Dec 05, 2011
A new study revealed that some ancient stars in the outer reaches of the Milky Way were found to have an unusually large amounts of heavy metals like gold, platinum and uranium.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 02, 2011
A new study on plate tectonics will allow researchers to predict when and where earthquakes will occur, scientists believe.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 02, 2011
A new study showed a giant exoplanet, which is about four times the size of Jupiter, doing somersaults into space and tugging four sibling planets along.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 02, 2011
Winds with gustiness equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane hit southwestern United States on Thursday leaving 340,000 homes in California without power.
Windsor Genova Dec 02, 2011
The end of the job-for-life tradition in Japan has led the new generation to search for what they really want to do and for some, this has led them back to farming and a life their grandparents once had.
Luisa Crisostomo Dec 02, 2011
The European Space Agency's latest efforts to communicate with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft remain unsuccessul, but an astrophotographer and expert satellite spotter was able to track down the spacecraft and photograph it a few weeks after it was launched.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 02, 2011
A new candidate TB vaccine, which is designed to protect people who are latently infected with the disease from actually developing it, is now undergoing clinical trials.
Lord Jorrel Polintan Dec 02, 2011
Mackay Conservation Group is opposing the planned expansion of the Abbot Point coal port north of Townsville in Queensland. The group is against the increase in number of coal terminals to nine from the current three because of the impact of the expansion on waterways and communities within a 500-kilometre radius of the port.
Vittorio Hernandez Dec 02, 2011
Hospitals is where people go to when they are feeling sick, that's a given. But no one really considers the food of the institution when they "check-in." The food the hospitals offer has been painted with infamy for the longest time, with some questioning its quality, edibility, and taste, the most basic of questions that should be ask is: "Is it healthy?"
Lord Jorrel Polintan Dec 02, 2011
Astronomers have discovered two streams of stars in the Southern Galactic hemisphere that were torn off the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, proving that the Milky Way galaxy continues to gulp down its small neighboring dwarf galaxies.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 02, 2011
NASA's 1976 Viking Mission experimenter Gilbert V. Levin who had written in 1997 that his Labeled Release (LR) experiment detected living microorganisms on Mars, recently said that instruments aboard Curiosity can confirm his published claim.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 02, 2011
A new study said that roundworms, which researchers has sent to the space station on the space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission in December 2006, may be sent farther, even to Mars, to aid human exploration efforts.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 01, 2011
A secretive robotic space place, a project of the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, is about to set its own space-endurance record. The project was planned for a 9- month-plus mission, and officials said they are close to that now.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 01, 2011
The NASA Kepler Mission has discovered a new exoplanet similar in size to Earth but with a temperature nowhere near the habitable zone.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 01, 2011
The European Space Agency (ESA) has conducted a new experiment involving the firing of laser pulses between satellites to track greenhouse gases as part of the agency’s need to understand global change, one of today’s most pressing scientific challenges.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 01, 2011
The Senate Committee of Rural Affairs and Transport recommended on Wednesday the suspension of all new coal seam gas (CSG) projects in areas where it would tap into the Great Artesian Basin. The 12 recommendations are based on the potential of CSG ventures to contaminate underground water.
Vittorio Hernandez Dec 01, 2011
In a study presented at the 17th U.N. conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa, an alliance of environmental groups warned that efforts will be in vain as long as banks are willing to finance expansion of the coal industry, one of the world's biggest sources of greenhouse gases.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa Dec 01, 2011
Heart attacks can happen to almost anyone, that means any gender, age, or even sex. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. But if the disease can strike on anyone, why are women more at risk than men?
Lord Jorrel Polintan Dec 01, 2011
The mining sector is going digital to avoid or minimise the incidence and scale of the impact of dust mines on the environment.
Vittorio Hernandez Dec 01, 2011
NASA’s nanosatellite that deployed the agency’s first-ever solar sail in low-Earth orbit has successfully completed its Earth Orbiting Mission.
Genalyn Corocoto Dec 01, 2011
Beautiful graphics, realistic sounds, story plots that can leave a person hanging - these are just some things that can hook an individual to play video games all day. But aside from getting entertained and getting involved in the game, do people really know what they're getting themselves into?
Lord Jorrel Polintan Dec 01, 2011
