SCIENCE

Newsweek releases its 2011 Green Rankings. What other U.S. companies are seriously green?

Northern Queensland received a record 112 millimetres of rain on Tuesday in just 13 hours from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. The rainfall broke the 1964 record of 86.6 mm.

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck Adelaide CBD, waking up residents at 2:22am Wednesday. The shallow quake was felt across the city for about five seconds, with the epicentre believed to be in the south eastern suburb of Upper Sturt, according to ABC news.

Earlier this year, Enrique Lucero Leon, a fisherman in California, brought home something unexpected after fishing – a 22 inch albino Cyclops shark. It happened in July but photos released on the internet are still catching people’s attention.

Controversy appears to await Queen Elizabeth even before she arrived on Wednesday night in Canberra. An animal rights group is threatening to hold a protest while Queensland flood victims feel slighted by the non-inclusion of their area in what could be the royal's last visit to Australia.

Governments and private health institutions around the world have been engaged in a battle to fight Malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people annually and second to Tuberculosis in as far as effects on world health is concerned.

The latest controversy about the lost Da Vinci Masterpiece could have made Christie’s auction house $21,000 richer. Martin Kemp, an art historian from the University of Oxford, believes that the mystery painting came from a wedding book. The book was believed to be Da Vinci’s gift to the Duke of Milan’s daughter on her wedding.

A dead taxi driver from the U.K. became the first man in 3,000 years to be mummified like ancient Egypt's pharaohs; his body will not decompose for several millennia.

Commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic has officially opened its spaceport in New Mexico, USA to serve as the jump-off point of space tourists 12 months from now.

In 500 years some of man's greatest cities, like London and New York will be underwater. Unless the effects of global warming can be reversed, rising sea levels will continue to rise in the next 500 years and flood most cities on the coast.

Climate change and its menaces should be dealt with promptly to reduce possible threats to the well-being of people worldwide.

The Orionid meteor shower is the second meteor shower astronomers can look forward to in October. The more dramatic Draconid meteor shower blazed its way across the night sky in early October but for those who missed the Draconids, the Orionids offer a more reliable stargazing experience that is no less spectacular.

Robots still have a long way to go before they can rival humans in visual perception. A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences proved that machines still struggle with interpreting visual patterns as compared to their human counterparts.

In August 1883, a Mexican astronomer took a picture that was later regarded as the first photographic evidence of extraterrestrial life. Now some astronomers think this photograph wasn't evidence of life on another planet but a comet that could have obliterated all life on Earth.

The chance of anyone being hit by the debris of the defunct German satellite ROSAT's X-ray telescope, expected to fall to Earth this week, is one in 2,000, but what is sure is that 1.6 tons space junk will re-enter the atmosphere.

The Orionid meteor shower 2011 will be seen on Friday, the dawn of October 21. So if you want to catch the meteor shower, you can either sleep early to wake up at dawn or not to sleep at all. The skies may not be perfectly dark but it will not be too bad for an amazing show.

New Zealand is still bracing from the effect of the massive oil spill from MV Rena.

British researchers have recalculated the size of the Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur and found it to be more than two to nearly five tons heavier than its scientifically established weight.

Yesterday, we published a groundbreaking article exposing the total media hoax that has been running in the mainstream media over the past week or so.

Researchers at the Ohio State University have discovered a new way to administer gene therapy agents without a needle.

The German Roentgen Satellite or ROSAT is expected to fall to Earth this week and German space officials said that there is a 1 in 2,000 chance that a piece of the dead satellite could hit someone on Earth.

If Iceland's Katla Volcano awakens from slumber and erupts, Icelanders and air travelers won't be the only ones affected. Eruptions from large volcanoes have wreaked havoc on Earth's ecosystem by lowering temperatures and thinning the ozone layer.

A new and strange phenomenon is baffling scientists. This is the case of the vanishing lakes in the Arctic which can have an impact on local wildlife and human populations, researchers said.

Hackers broke in and ruined Sesame Street’s YouTube account on Sunday. According to reports, malicious, obscene, and hardcore pornographic scenes were posted in replace for the original and family friendly videos of Ernie, Bert, and the rest of the gang.

In a worst case scenario, the shrinking of plants and animals due to climate change and drought could affect food production in the coming years.

The predictions present a doomsday scenario. In 2012, violent solar flares will explode causing relentless radiation storms that will result in the devastation of nuclear plants and power grids, cause a crippling effect on communication systems, and destroying our current way of life.

This letter appeared in the Washington Post on August 12, 2010. It was written to Dr. Michael Fox, who writes a regular column for the newspaper.

While it brought fear to some who believed that Comet Elinen would bring the Earth to extinction, astronomers now say that only a stream of debris of the supposedly “doomsday comet” have reached the atmosphere.

“Judgment day is near!” says Harold Camping, the radio preacher who predicted that the world would end on May 21. He hasn’t backed down from his claims and is now saying that everything will end on Friday, October 21.