SCIENCE

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.

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.

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?

The mining sector is going digital to avoid or minimise the incidence and scale of the impact of dust mines on the environment.

NASA’s nanosatellite that deployed the agency’s first-ever solar sail in low-Earth orbit has successfully completed its Earth Orbiting Mission.

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?

Beware of buying things from the internet. You could be buying something that should not be sold in the first place, like the RL-10 rocket engine that is owned by NASA.

There is an expression that people say: "If wishes were fishes, the world will be an ocean." But more importantly, if wishes were fishes, then the world would have a lot of healthier people - this is because eating fish is good for the body, but not only that, it's also good for the mind. Though eating fish is only popular for those who are going on a diet, those humble sea creatures can serve a plate-full of benefits.

Pluto’s small moons may pose a serious threat to NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft once it reaches the planet in 2015.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in its annual briefing to the UN climate summit, said that the Earth’s surface continues to get warmer, and the warming is due to human activities.

In line with global trends for more environment-friendly vehicles, the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) picked on Wednesday the Ford Falcon EcoLPi as one of the best cars in the country.

Archeologists led by the University of Birmingham along with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection uncovered two giant pits around Stonehenge suggestive of a ritual site long before the standing stones were put in place.

Giving birth to a child is one of the most miraculous things that can happen in a woman's life. Delivering a child, and sometimes children, is also one the most anticipated events in the lives of couples, especially those who are moms-to-be. However, dangers in child delivery can turn what should be a dream come true into a nightmare.