SCIENCE

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.

A new study revealed that healthy heart muscle cells increased by 30 percent in animals with ischemic heart disease after receiving cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs).

If energy-efficiency policies, price reforms, new emissions-free infrastructures and increased renewable energy subsidies aren't firmly in place by 2017 then it might become too late to turn back the tide against the effects of climate change, according to the recently released World Energy Outlook by the IEA (International Energy Agency).

Scientists in Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island engineered male and female mice to produce the IKKbeta enzyme in their fat. The resulting mice can eat more but gain less weight. The animals exhibit the ability to burn sugar and fat more effectively.

Large Hadron Collider researchers have discovered the reason why there is more matter than anti-matter which heralds the facility’s first “new physics”.

In recent years, car-free city zones in densely populated areas around the world have been used as communal areas to showcase local culture and have become fashionable shopping destinations.

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.