SCIENCE

Chinese astronomers recorded a mysterious "guest star" that appeared in the night sky in 185A.D. The ancient cosmic event which was described in the Chinese historical book "Book of the Later Han" had only been determined by scientists in the 1960s as the first ever recorded observation of a supernova. Now observations from NASA's Spritzer Space Telescope and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have pinpointed the star that the Chinese astronomers saw 2,000 years ago....

Some parts of the moon, including the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 landing sites, will be listed by NASA as off-limits, and including ground-travel buffers and no-fly zones to safeguard its historic and scientific value.

Oysters and other marine creatures could find forming their shells difficult in the future if water acidification continues.

NASA caught an old woman selling a piece of moon stone in black markets. Joann Davis, 74, claimed that the little piece of moon rock, smaller than a grain of rice, was owned by her late husband. She said that Neil Armstrong gave the little piece of rock to her late husband when he was still an engineer on a company NASA built during Apollo era.

The mystery of the first documented report of star explosion, that of an ancient supernova spotted nearly 2,000 ago, has been solved by NASA space telescopes.

Gallium Nitride, or GaN, a material usually used for LED lighting and optic sensors, can now be used as implants.

Several parts of the world may see temperatures exceeding "safe" levels in the next two decades unless emissions of greenhouse gas are substantially reduced, climate scientists warn.

Pig to human organ transplant will be possible in the next few years. Latest updates on xenotransplantation, the use of cells, tissues, or organs from one animal to another, are clearly stating that the process will be available in clinical practice very soon.

When water from the tsunami that slammed northeastern Japan on March 11 returned to the ocean, it dragged back huge amounts of debris, including pieces of homes, cars, furniture, fishing boats and refrigerators.

A video footage showing an apparent alien in the Amazon jungle has been posted online and a paranormal claims that the footage is the best proof that extraterrestrials exist.

Travelling to space may be affordable for the massses in the near future.

On the surface Foldit doesn't seem to be any different from any video game. It has cute graphics and a peppy sound. Players have to figure out a puzzle before moving on to another level. However Foldit isn't just some puzzle game, it actually masquerades as a scientific tool that helps fight real life problems, namely viruses.

A third person has recently been killed by a shark off Australia's west coast, raising fears among swimmers, especially in Cottlesloe and Dunsborough beaches. The three fatal attacks happened within 2 months, alerting officials, who are now hunting the killer white sharks. While one can never tell when a shark would be around to attack, the general advice given by experts is to avoid the shark's feeding schedule, which is at dusk, dawn, and night time hours. It is best to stay on the beach...

A recent news about a man being killed by his exotic pets in Ohio made people anxious about the country’s law in getting exotic pets like tigers, crocodiles, lions, big bucks, and the like. Each American state has its own rules in owning an exotic pet. But eight among the US States do not have laws at all in governing exotic animals’ ownership.

California regulators on Thursday approved final regulations for a carbon market that is one of the biggest U.S. responses to climate change.

Bolivian president Evo Morales has announced he will be scrapping the controversial plan to build a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve that has triggered widespread protests.

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.