SCIENCE

A crack in the concrete catchment of a desalination facility of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has leaked 45 tons of highly radioactive water, according to TEPCO, operator of the plant.

A new study by the International Energy Agency predicts that solar energy from solar photovoltaics, concentrating solar power and solar hot water will account for one-third of overall global energy consumption by 2060.

A novel way to harness the sun’s energy that mimics Earth’s greenhouse effect has been discovered by researchers from MIT.

The 9/11 incident that brought down the World Trade Center will be forever remembered as an attack that left people in fear, panic, and turmoil. But what most people don't know is that for those who responded in ground zero are also left with a disease - asthma.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has broken the closest-approach mark to Pluto set by NASA’s Voyager 1 in January 1986.

New evidence from the Large Hadron Collider will soon finally resolve questions on whether or not the Higgs boson or “God particle” exists.

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.

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?"

Newly discovered stone artifacts that suggest humanity left Africa through the Arabian Peninsula could re-write early human history.

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.

The U.S. Space Surveillance/US STRATCOM has identified two objects associated to the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and both objects are rapidly decaying.

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.

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.

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.

A new study on plate tectonics will allow researchers to predict when and where earthquakes will occur, scientists believe.

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.

Winds with gustiness equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane hit southwestern United States on Thursday leaving 340,000 homes in California without power.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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.

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.

The NASA Kepler Mission has discovered a new exoplanet similar in size to Earth but with a temperature nowhere near the habitable zone.

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.

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.