SCIENCE

Awards will be granted to original discoveries that lead to understanding of the human body or treatment of diseases, says committee secretary.

It was Fermilab’s Tevatron’s demand for the rare and prohibitively expensive superconducting wires that triggered the widespread use of one of the most amazing breakthrough in medical science, the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, which has become a very popular tool for medical diagnosis.

Scientists have discovered a bacterium that can transform ammonium, commonly found in urine into hydrazine, a rocket fuel.

A massive hole in the earth's ozone layer has appeared over the Arctic this Spring. Five times the size of California, the hole matches the size of the ozone loss over Antartica, researchers said.

The devastation of the ozone layer in the Arctic region has reached an alarming level mainly because of chemicals coming from substances such as chlorofluorocarbons that are being used in appliances such as refrigerators and fire extinguishers.

The demand for UV protection products could increase significantly in the near future with a reported unprecedented depletion of the Ozone layer above the Arctic this year. Decreases in overhead ozone lead to increases in surface ultraviolet radiation which have been known to have adverse effects to humans and other life forms.

Typhoon Nalgae is forecast to strike Vietnam at about 02:00 GMT on Oct. 5, with maximum sustained winds to the region of around120 km/h (74 mph).

US president Barack Obama copped a bit of flak in 2009 for appointing a Harvard law professor to a senior White House regulatory position.

'Jumbo' Humboldt squid are swarming off the U.S. West Coast, echoing past invasions in 2007 and 2010. Experts say it may be a sign of things to come.

Growing your own fish food for aquaponics is the holy grail for many folk wishing to be autonomous and not dependent on commercial fish food pellets.

Now that China has successfully launched its first space laboratory module with an eye towards a manned space station, how will this affect the global space race or will the Chinese just end up competing with itself?

California-based space exploration company Space X announced on Thursday that it is working on an orbital booster system that could fly to space and back and could be the key to colonizing Mars.

NASA's done it before but only in the movies but this time they're going to do it in real life. NASA scientists have announced they are planning to land n astronaut on an asteroid in the near future.

Scientists from the University of California at Santa Cruz are relying on the power and capabilities of a NASA supercomputer to generate a thorough image of galaxies like the Milky Way developing under the forces of dark matter and energy.

The NASA Messenger Spacecraft has presented its discoveries on the planet Mercury that refuted earlier textbook claims.

Whitsunday resident Wayne Fewings reported on Friday that he and his family saw on Saturday rare white humpack whales at the entrance of Cid Harbour in the Whitsunday Passage.

Amazing footage from the International Space Station reveals our planet in all its humbling and inspiring glory.

If you're holding back from buying an electric or plug-in hybrid, read this story. Some of what you think you know may turn out to be wrong.

Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

A living creature in Mars? Or the discovery of a new planet perhaps?We will find out with the new missions to study the Earth, the sun, the Milky Way and Earth-like planets being undertaken in the future.

Monsoon rains in South Asia have suffered considerable cut backs over the past four decades, according to new research findings released on Thursday, which put much of the blame to aerosol particles spewed by human activities.

Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Starting on September 1, 2011 the official single use plastic bag ban has begun in the Northern Territory. Some peole are cheering and happy but others are now scratching their heads... what do we now use to line our rubbish bin?

Women account for 75 percent of the agricultural producers in sub-Saharan Africa, but the majority of women farmers are living on only $1.25 per day, according to researchers from the Worldwatch Institute.

NASA has captured once again enchanting images of Aurora Australis from the International Space Station while passing over Indian Ocean on September 17. One of the Sept. 17 videos now circulating on the web shows wildfire images in Australia.

Australian astronomers have located the Milky Way, which apparently sits like a bead in a cosmic thread in the great cosmos.

Officials of the Jiuquan Satellite in Northwest China have set off the Chinese Long March 2FT1 rocket that will convey the country’s first archetype space laboratory into course on Thursday.

A study being conducted by an international group of researchers has found out that plants use up carbon dioxide 25 percent more rapidly than it was previously known.

Are you a NASA Twitter follower?Then this might be your chance to witness the launch of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, explore for yourself the Kennedy Space Center, and even speak with NASA scientists.