Government officials of Kashiwa city in Chiba Prefecture said Saturday that they have detected a high level concentration of radioactive cesium in the soil if city-owned land. About 276,000 Becquerels of cesium per kilogram of soil was found below the surface following the detection of an abnormal level of airborne radiation earlier in the week.
The documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” by former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore has been described as a masterpiece. Nonetheless, a new research undertaken by a a climate researcher from the Lund University in Sweden is now contradicting Mr. Gore's global warming theory.
When defunct German satellite ROSAT crashed into the Earth, its project re-entry path included several countries in Southeast Asia. However until now, no reports have been received where exactly ROSAT fell.
More than a thousand rescuers, including six battalions of soldiers, and residents were digging for survivors underneath collapsed apartment buildings in eastern Turkey, where a powerful quake struck Sunday afternoon instantly killing 138 and injuring 350 people.
Electronic Navigation chart is a modern tool that can definitely save ships from possible sea accidents. Like cars and other land vehicles with GPS, marines should also have something that will guide them in the ocean.
A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey on Sunday, presumably killing hundreds of people in the city of Van. State-run TRT television said the quake collapsed 80 buildings and at least 85 people have been confirmed dead three hours after the quake struck.
An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck in Turkey's eastern city of Van near the Iranian border toppling 80 buildings and killing 70 people on Sunday afternoon.
The European Union launched Friday its first satellite navigation system last Friday that is seen to compete with GPS network of the U. S.
A killer shark took the life of a Houston man who went diving off a popular Perth coast on Saturday. George "Thomas" Wainwright, 32, was the third fatal shark attack off Australia's west coast in two months, authorities said.
A study from University of Houston recommends a different approach in developing drugs to treat Alzheimer’s, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and other cardiovascular diseases. An interview was published on Nature Reviews Drug Discovery magazine for their October issue stated that the scientists from the Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling (CNRCS) at UH are finalizing the results of their study that was conducted in 1996.
The mystery of how water was able to survive Earth's fiery past has always baffled scientists. Earth had been a very hot planet and any water would have simply evaporated. A European team of astronomers may have the answer to the age-old riddle with a discovery of a reservoir of water vapor in space.
Experts doing research on sexually-transmitted diseases have made some progress with the discovery of a vaginal gel that could possibly lessen the frequency of genital herpes among females.
Nothing rallies scientists together more than the possibility that their carefully ordered universe will undergo a shift in reality. Physicists from around the world are now presenting theories that debunk the discovery of faster than light neutrinos.
China is on the course to becoming the world’s space superpower and this interest could be due to the moon’s abundance of helium-3 to be used as fuel for nuclear fusion, while the moon’s raw materials could be turned into the water, oxygen, building materials and rocket fuel needed for human exploration.
The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual peak on Sept. 12, spreading wide during the Southern Hemirsphere spring. The ozone hole stretched to 10.05 million square miles, the ninth largest ozone hole on record
Space debris can be turned into space resource when a new program that seeks to recycle still-functioning pieces of defunct satellites into usable satellite parts or even a completely new spacecraft gets into the works.
NASA has released a series of pictures from satellite data visualizations that show how tens of millions of fires look from outer space. The fire observations by the MODearate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS for short, help scientists understand the effects of fire on the Earth's environment from local to global scales.
Researchers have forecasted a continuous rise in water level in the coming centuries due to global warming.
Studies have shown that computer games are the latest therapy in treating Parkinson’s disease. A study led by the UCSF School of Nursing along with Red Hills Studios, a California games developer, found out that physical therapy computer games can help victims of Parkinson’s disease to enhance their balance and improve their gait.
Oxygen-breathing bacteria may have lived on land 100 million years sooner than previously thought.
Despite the criticisms that the Labor government received for the proposed carbon tax, four major global green investment groups backed the carbon tax and said it will provide economic benefits to Australia.
Mark your calendars. October 21 is the end of the world, at least according to U.S. Christian broadcaster Harold Camping
Recently, scrotal elephantiasis caught the attention of people, especially men, worldwide. This happened after Wesley Warren Jr, a brave man from Los Angeles, exposed his unusual condition on Howard Stern’s radio and even on national television. He is hoping to raise $1 million for a surgery that will treat his swelling scrotum.
Several research studies have revealed cave-like formations about a meter deep in the moon which scientists believe were actually entrances to a complex labyrinth of lunar tunnels.
The formation of the youngest plant from gas and dust was captured by a University of Hawaii astronomer Adam Kraus.
More Australians are taking public transportation to move around and biking to reach their destinations. The shift toward more environment-friendly and healthier transport options is one of the findings of the State of Australian Cities 2011 report released on Thursday.
German satellite ROSAT is expected to fall directly on earth this weekend. A month ago, scientists and space experts were all worried about a deadly collision with the UARS satellite from NASA. And ROSAT is another falling junk that people should worry about.
Space tourists will soon be able to fly to suborbital space to experience moments of weightlessness and feel the thrill of seeing the Earth.
Some people panicked when soothsayers predicted that the approach of Comet Elenin would trigger catastrophic earthquakes and tsunamis, or worse, suggesting that Elenin was not a comet but a rogue planet called Nibiru that would usher in the Apocalypse.
The impact of a giant meteorite hitting the Earth may resemble a volcanic eruption.
