SCIENCE

Plastic bags, other than plastic bottles, are in my top most hated things list! Especially the super thin, totally useless ones – you know the ones, you pick them up and they basically rip on contact.

By mixing the genomes of spiders and humans, researchers say they can create genetically altered human skin that could withstand a bullet fired from a .22-caliber long rifle.

A new study suggests extraterrestrial beings might consider humanity a threat to other planets, based on how we treat our own.

The galaxy is becoming a darker place. Galaxies are forming fewer stars than it did over 8 billion years ago and scientists are pointing to the mysterious dark matter as the culprit.

Animal rights group plans to join other groups in reserving a new .xxx domain featuring 'pornography that benefits animals.'

The only time you need to run the AC is when someone is home to enjoy it.

Could the mysterious five shark attacks this week be the result of humans or climate change? Scientists are baffled over the five shark attacks in different countries and some marine scientists are saying the attacks could be the result of warmer waters caused by climate change. Others believe the shark attacks were caused by overfishing or more people swimming.

Solar storms are likely to become more disruptive to planes and spacecraft within decades, according to researchers at Reading University.

The comet Elenin, now passing through the inner solar system and setting off apocalyptic speculation, will not bring on doomsday in 2012, NASA says.

Over the last three months we've been trialling a little additive called potassium hydroxide with the regular stuff we've been putting into our aquaponics system and - boy has the plant growth taken off!

Natabar Sarangi is just one of a growing number of farmers throughout the world who realise that if we do not begin to repair the damage taking place to our agricultural systems and our environment, we will lose not just our cultural identity but our fundamental right to a truly sustainable system of food security.

Humans make a big hoo-ha about issues surrounding same sex marriage, but in the bird world, homosexual bonds are often as natural — and as long-lasting — as heterosexual pairings.

An analysis of a moon rock has scientists thinking the moon may be younger than widely believed. They say it's possible that the moon isn't more than 4.4 billion years old or, if not the moon never had the magma ocean that covered its surface after it formed.

Study finds less than 2 percent of perishables are kept at 'safe' temperatures in kids' packed school lunches.

A new species of eel discovered in an underwater cave is a "living fossil" that has characteristics similar to animals from the Dinosaur Era, biologists reported on Wednesday.

Western Australian towns along the coastline are among the most at risk to climate change in the world according a new report from the Climate Commission.

The Texas governor has a clear environmental platform — whether you like it or not is a different story.

Agricultural pesticides are causing a significant amount of damage to the nation's Great Barrier Reef, according to a report from the federal government.

Is it possible for Hollywood's ultra demanding movie sets to be environment-friendly? The set of the film "The Help" initiated that it is possible for Hollywood to turn to "Ecollywood."

This weekend stargazers were in for a double treat as the annual Perseid meteor shower dazzled from midnight of Aug. 12 and pre-dawn on Aug. 13.

Evidence that proves that giant sea reptiles gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs was found in a 78 million year old fossil of a pregnant Plesiosaur, a U.S. study said on Thursday.

Should a wild animal be forced to sell car insurance, dance the Macarena, and smoke cigars to provoke a laugh? Not that it matters if there were millions of chimpanzees around to abuse, but a new study concludes that chimpanzees may be doomed as a species as long as the public continues to see them in commercials and movies.

The new documentary film "Buck" chronicles the life of real-life "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman and his work to help, as he calls them, "horses with people problems." The film follows Brannaman as he tours the country, giving guardians a deeper understanding of their horses and, at the same time, insight into themselves.

The sun unleashed an extremely powerful solar flare, the largest in more than five years early Tuesday but is unlikely to affect the Earth, scientists say.

Paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of an enormous prehistoric bird that lived in Central Asia more than 65 million years ago and lived alongside dinosaurs.

The dead white whale found off Queensland's Palm Island is not the famous albino humpback Migaloo, a marine expert says.

Astronomers report having observed a rare celestial event- a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole.

THE tiny glass bottle in my hand is filled with what looks like crude oil, but it's actually oil's nemesis. If it works, this black sludge will transform the rechargeable battery, doubling the range of electric cars and making petroleum obsolete.

A plan to solve drought-stricken Third World countries by tugging massive icebergs from the polar ice caps could soon become a reality.