SCIENCE

Meet James and Rosie. If you're late for work they can whip you up a lovely breakfast of pancake and sausage. James and Rosie can also make you popcorn and sandwiches. James and Rosie are robots from the Technical University of Munich and they could be the future of robotic household help.

China and India have sworn they will cooperate with the world's more than 190 nations towards an international treaty that would include limiting the fossil fuel emissions of industrialized as well as emerging economies like them. Australia had earlier refused to commit if other countries are also not cooperating towards a new Kyoto Protocol.

It’s Christmas and you want to find the perfect gift for your loved one who is interested in astronomy or space exploration. Here's our top five Christmas gift ideas that any space enthusiast will surely love.

Hospitals are known to house not only patients in their institutions, but also some of the most stubborn, highly resistant bacteria that can be found anywhere. Thriving in places that should be sterile for recovering patients, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been a constant thorn at the side of hospitals. But the numbers are up for these types of bacteria as there is a newly developed cleanser to wash them away.

A "milestone" in spaceflight is expected Feb. 7, when Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will launch its second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration flight, with NASA agreeing to fly SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Post-pregnancy for women is an extremely sensitive period for them. At risk to so many things like depression, their physical health is also a factor that must be considered more so now that research has discovered a new risk that postpartum presents to women.

It is a common fact that treating breast cancer is a difficult journey that women take to rid themselves of the disease. However, getting to the light at the end of the tunnel and kicking cancer to the curb can be even harder because of the medications that women take.

Google is rolling out a new opt-in feature in Google+ that allows members to automatically find their faces in photos posted in this social networking site, as it pursues its bid to create an online community that can rival other social networking giants.

NASA has rebutted various myths relating to the alleged apocalypse awaiting the Earth on Dec. 21, 2012, advising people to "sleep well" on that date.

NASA is targeting Jupiter’s moon Europa, considered by many scientists as the solar system’s best bet for harboring life beyond Earth, for “habitability” mission.

Admitting the failure of Phobos-Grunt mission, a Russian scientist apologized for the failed mission but said that new a mission to the Mars moon is still possible.

Has the world's first cold fusion plant finally been built? Andrea Rossi, an Italian physicist claims that he has built the world's first working cold fusion plant. He demonstrated his Energy Catalyzer or E-Cat machine at the University of Bologna in Italy on October 28. The machine, which fuses nickel and hydrogen to give off heat in the process, actually produced an average of 470 kilowatts for more than five hours.

European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the largest optical-infrared telescope ever to be built, is on its way to becoming a reality with the council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s approval for initial work to be done on the project.

A bright vein of mineral deposited by water has been found by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in the surface of Mars , an evidence that water was present long time ago. The vein was informally named “Homestake.”

Russian has again asked the assistance of the European Space Agency (ESA) to contact the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to avert the impending re-entry of the vehicle to the Earth’s atmosphere.

Inhibiting a brain molecule that protects against viral infections could lead the way for the development of memory- boosting drugs, according to new research.

Using MRI brain scans, researchers in Britain discovered that cab drivers had increased the grey matter in their posterior hippocampus after over three years of intensive training to memorize London's numerous street routes.

Humans are blessed with intelligence that surpasses that of other animals in the planet making us effectively, on top of the food chain, so to speak. But as with anything else, people look for more, and when it comes to intelligence, humans want to be smarter. But can humans transcend being normally smart and be super smart?

Is the image caught on camera by NASA spacecraft a cloaked UFO spaceship lurking near Mercury or just an after image of the planet itself?

For women, losing inches off the belly has always been associated to spending tons of hours at the gym, working out, and going on some impossible diet. But losing belly fat could actually be as simple as paying attention to one's body.

Wine growers in Hunter Valley who belong to the area's wine industry association sought to kick out gas giant AGL Energy Limited (ASX: AGK) from their ranks because of the firm's stand on coal seam gas (CSG).

CERN physicists are now in possession of new data that could point with greater certainty where to find the Higgs boson or “God-particle” which has long been sought by scientists.

NASA's Dawn mission to asteroid Vesta has revealed more images of the asteroid's topography and found that the asteroid has a mountain that is three times the size of Earth's Mount Everest.

Microscopic 570-million year old fossils found in China could be the oldest sample of animal life found to date.

Space is a vast and dangerous place. The enormous distances between the stars means that it would take centuries to reach the nearest star to our solar system. Alpha Centauri is only 4.27 light years from the Sun but it would still take about 50,000 years on our fastest spacecraft to reach it. Given these obstacles are the stars barred from us forever? Should we even try for interstellar spaceflight?

The moon and other planets could be severely affected by solar storms and the accompanying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) according to a research by NASA scientists.

Children subjected to physical abuse or exposed to domestic violence have been found to have similar brain patterns as soldiers fighting in dangerous combat situations.

After its discovery of 1,094 exoplanet candidates on Monday, the NASA Kepler space telescope is expected to find more alien planets before the end of iots prime mission in November 2012, space officials said.

A newly discovered comet, categorized by astronomers as a “sungrazer,” is moving towards the sun and is expected to graze the sun’s surface in mid-December.