SCIENCE

After saying goodbye to the space shuttle program, NASA is also ditching its big, bulky space suits for something slimmer.

The Gamburtsev Mountains have long baffled geologists. Discovered by a Soviet geophysicist of the same name in 1958, the year of the first International Polar Year exploration, their origins have been a matter of obscurity in the geological field.

Here is a list of just a few of the animals under threat or on the verge of extinction, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and the WWF.

An event scientists call the Great Dying, 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Era, killed off more than three-quarters of life forms on Earth.

A recent study has found that zircons, considered as the Earth’s “time capsules” being one of the oldest bits of minerals, are not as pure as geologists thought them to be and that research data drawn from them could be doubtful.

Rabbits are, arguably, one of the cutest, most harmless animals in the world. That is why people were shocked when they saw splashed across news agencies a case of a disease known as rabbit fever.

A research technician and mission planner for the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University offered an explanation for such lines. Jonathon Hill has said that they are spy satellite calibration targets and are not surprising given that China is known to operate spy satellites and the United States have also operated a number of spy satellites themselves.

Do you get up to do something, walk into another room and then don't remember what you were going to do? Don't worry you're not going senile yet because it's actually the door's fault.

Heart attacks run rampant across the world. In fact, according to the Women's Heart Foundation, 1.5 million heart attacks occur in the United States yearly with one-third of the figure leading to deaths. But what people don't know is that deaths from a heart attack maybe caused by the heart itself.

Authorities counted six people killed by tornadoes that struck Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina on Wednesday.

Researchers from Sydney University reported on Thursday that they have discovered the submerged islands some 1600 kilometres from the western coastline of Australia, further cementing assertions that the country should count Gondwana as its mother continent.

It is a common fact that people love looking at beautiful sceneries. Whether it's the simple sight of trees or the calming landscape of plants, people adore a green environment. Not only adore, but according to a new survey, people love greenery so much that they are even willing to pay more for a greener place to live in.

The stretch of Gamburtsev mountain ranges have long amazed scientists who single out the East Antarctica icy rock formations for their apparent youthfulness that surprisingly defied million-years of natural onslaught by elements.

Maintenance workers have found a live carpet shark inside the seawater intake tank of the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant in Binningup, according to Water Corporation, operator of the plant.

Three new flight engineers who will compose Expedition 30 arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday for a four-month stay on the orbiting complex. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, were delivered by Soyuz TMA-22 which blasted off from Kazakhstan on Monday.

The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, known as “Alps under the ice, are the least understood tectonic feature on Earth, because they are completely hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. But scientists have finally discovered how the mountains, which are buried three km below the East Antartic Ice Sheet, were formed 250 million years ago.

China’s unmanned Shenzhou 8 which executed the nation’s first in-space docking has departed from the prototype space lab module Tiangong and is expected to return to Earth today.

About 6,000 to 8,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was actually a thriving ecosystem with rivers and abundant rainfall. Around 4,500 year ago, the region turned into the arid wasteland of today. Now a Dutch artist wants to turn this vast desert into a fertile oasis by conjuring ice from thin air.

The Leonids are known to be a bright annual meteor shower with visible meteorites that can be seen by the naked eye. Although this year would be less visible than previous years because of the moon being in it's third quarter and other factors such as light pollution. The shower itself lasts for weeks but its peak is tonight and tomorrow Nov. 18 from midnight until 3 a.m. If you can't get yourself to stay awake you could get to see a glimpse of the shower before moonrise if you are lucky.

The 27-member countries of the European Union will start using millimeter-wave scanners after the EU announced the ban on the use of X-ray body scanners in all European airports due to health and safety reasons.

Jupiter’s moon Europa could be a potential habitat for life after a body of liquid water trapped in the moon’s icy surface has been discovered

Blueberries are one of the most popular add-ons to desert, whether it be ice cream or a simple bowl of granola, the small, blue fruit is but an aesthetic element with a sweet-tart taste. But there is more to this blue fruit; in fact, blueberries are one of the healthiest fruits out there.

Two Students from the University of Pennsylvania have modified a Kinect to help the vision impaired to become more aware of their environment. The project is called Kinecthesia and functions as a radar like device but instead of using sound, the device uses the Kinect's cameras to map out the environment and translate it into a sensation the blind can understand.

Ovarian cancer is one type of cancer that strikes women all over the world, so much so that it is responsible for around 3% of cancers of women, reported OvarianCancer.org. Sometimes called the "silent killer," it is often diagnosed in its late stage what with its vague symptoms that can be attributed to other ailments.

Vending machines have come a long way from their roots. From their simple beginning as a way to sell postcards in the late 1880s, vending machines now sell everything from a pack of gum to shiny new cars.

People often avoid eating garlic simply because of malodorous scent it can leave its wary consumer's mouth. But people, especially those who have suffered a heart attack, might change their mind about the strong-scented root and give it some respect when they find out that one of its components can help those with a heart problem.

It will be a fun date night with a spectacular view of the Leonid meteor shower, grazing the night skies starting Thursday night.

Are made-from-scratch metropolises the answer to Asia's urban overpopulation?

Even galaxies experience mid-life crisis. This was found out by a team of Australian astronomers whose research showed that Milky Way and Andromeda are in transition from being young and star-forming into old and stagnant galaxies.