SCIENCE

The near-meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March and the subsequent release of radioactive materials in Japan has led researchers to study its lingering impact on farming.

Flying in space can be a reality once you qualify to join NASA’s next class for the Astronaut Candidate Program.

A national park and World Heritage Site in eastern Congo is offering a tour of an erupting volcano to watch it shoot lava 300 metres into the air.

Like its counterparts in the U.S., Australia's only manufacturer of solar panels is suffering from weak sales due to competition from cheap Chinese solar panel imports.

Raising the minimum legal drinking age, or MLDA, has always been the subject of debate and controversy. While some say that 18 years of age is already an appropriate age to be drinking, some stress that drinking below the age of 21 is dangerous.

Doomsday 2012 scenarios include the eruption of supervolcano, but NASA said its geological records holds no clues that such supereruptions have happened during the Earth’s 4.5 billion-year lifetime.

Research has proven that one to two glasses of wine a day is healthy for the body. However, what about the most common of spirits - the beer? Beer has often been painted to be bad for the health, but recent study suggests otherwise.

It's one of the top concerns of people everywhere -- how do we grow our own food for superior nutrition and food sovereignty? How do we store an emergency food supply that can get us through a crisis when conventional food deliveries to grocery stores may be cut off?

Lock the Gate responds to Santos withdrawal from Spring Ridge

It is a well-known fact that when men are having problems in bed, it is an embarrassingly major problem for them. Erectile dysfunction is not to be taken lightly as it is something menacing that men face and can happen at any age.

Airdrop is a a lo-tech air harvester aims to alleviate the effect of drought on agriculture.

Last 2005 a project called Google X from the now shut down Google Labs. It stayed for one day and disappeared without a trace and with no explanation. It was a project that showcases Google's website with Apple's dock effect. New York Times has revealed recently that another project with the same name was in development within Google that is so secret that some of the employees don't even know it exists.

Today’s generation will mostly likely die from diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCD) rather than from infectious diseases like measles or AIDS.

Governments should find ways to raise $100 billion yearly for the Green Climate Fund, which was created in December last year, which will help countries cope with global warming.

Solar energy if harvested in space could meet global energy needs in as little as 30 years, according to a new study by the International Academy of Astronautics.

Glowing waves in California are attracting surfers and kayakers. What is causing this eerie, otherworldly phenomenon?

China’s Shenzhou-8 has docked with the target orbiter Tiangcong-1 for the second time on Monday, marking the second successful docking between two unmanned spacecraft in orbit.

A new breakthrough in stem cell researched has helped a 39-year old man, Ken Milles, recover his health by regenerating damaged heart tissue. The same treatment was given to a patient named Mike Jones and again, like the last patient before him is now recovering.

The Russian Phobos-Grunt mission is not yet considered lost, and space officials have until December to try to reestablish contact, re-program the probe and continue its mission to the Martian moon. After which, it may fall to Earth in January, according to a Russian space official.

Qantas will start using biofuel to power its planes next year, the airline's CEO Alan Joyce announced during the Australian Airports Association convention in Brisbane on Monday.

Diabetes is a common problem around the world that has people checking their blood sugar all the time. What's frightening to know is that diabetes is predicted to affect over 380 million people around the world by 2025. And with World Diabetes Day just celebrated this November 14, what could be a better way to deal with the illness than simply brushing one's teeth?

Tuberculosis, more popularly called TB, is a respiratory system illness that leaves people coughing up blood. This contagious disease, which stems from the infections bacteria known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mtb kills over 2 million people each year.

The bronze-age artifact unearthed was found in a 1000-year old Inupiat house, making the belt older than the house itself. The house is located at Cape Espenberg by an archeological team from the University of Colorado. The buckle itself is two inches by one inch with a rectangular beveled ring connected to a broken concave ring. The whole item was made from a mold that most likely came from East Asia.

Everyone knows that smoking or second hand smoke is bad for the health and brings with it numerous negative effects such as turning the teeth yellow or making the lungs sickly. However, aside from the usual ailments associated with smoke, only a few know that smoke can also affect the heart.

The Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) are struggling to pull two stranded sperm whales in Tasmania's northwest coast back to the sea on Monday amid bad weather as 24 others died on a beach.

Arthritis is an affliction that leaves those reeling with pain even with the simplest of tasks. Thanks to inflamed joints, people's lives are disrupted. In fact, there are around 10 million people in the United Kingdom who are suffering from this ailment, while in the United States, a staggering 50 million.

Efforts of Russian space officials to salvage the Phobos-Grunt mission have not been successful and in a worst case scenario, the spacecraft could re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere but will not likely hit a populated area.

Although the Australian government is apparently battling an uphill fight over carbon tax, renewable energy and similar issues as the debate gets lively, trends support the Labor government position that the country should shift toward renewables and away from coal.

The Earth’s core, which is some 3,000km (1,900 miles) below sea level, will never be reached by scientists but a new experiment will attempt to unravel the mysterious processes at the center of the planet.