The mysterious spotted creature was dropped off at the Chinese zoo is in fact a type of possum most likely smuggled into the country as a novelty pet. A Hong Kong animal enthusiast Danny Li contacted the zoo soon enough and informed them it was a spotted cuscus - a marsupial native to northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia's Maluku Islands.
Ivan Adnan
Oct 04, 2011
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) continue to support stellar achievements that vary from technical acts to demonstration of human inventiveness.
Joseph Alan Alonso
Oct 04, 2011
Bras, fake limbs and even sex toys can be kept out of the landfill through some innovative programs.
Jamelle Agbuis
Oct 04, 2011
The largest ever ground-based telescope still under construction in a Chilean mountain released its first image from deep space on Monday showing two colliding galaxies 45 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
Windsor Genova
Oct 04, 2011
Not too long ago I was sitting with my step-brother Nicky in a small park in New York City, discussing the afterlife.
Jamelle Agbuis
Oct 04, 2011
Awards will be granted to original discoveries that lead to understanding of the human body or treatment of diseases, says committee secretary.
Joseph Alan Alonso
Oct 04, 2011
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.
Genalyn Corocoto
Oct 04, 2011
Scientists have discovered a bacterium that can transform ammonium, commonly found in urine into hydrazine, a rocket fuel.
ranina sanglap
Oct 04, 2011
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.
Marbelyn Alar
Oct 03, 2011
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.
Joseph Alan Alonso
Oct 03, 2011
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.
Genalyn Corocoto
Oct 03, 2011
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).
Arlene Paredes
Oct 03, 2011
US president Barack Obama copped a bit of flak in 2009 for appointing a Harvard law professor to a senior White House regulatory position.
Jamelle Agbuis
Oct 03, 2011
'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.
Jamelle Agbuis
Oct 03, 2011
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.
Jamelle Agbuis
Oct 03, 2011
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?
ranina sanglap
Oct 01, 2011
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.
ranina sanglap
Sep 30, 2011
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.
ranina sanglap
Sep 30, 2011
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.
Joseph Alan Alonso
Sep 30, 2011
The NASA Messenger Spacecraft has presented its discoveries on the planet Mercury that refuted earlier textbook claims.
Joseph Alan Alonso
Sep 30, 2011
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.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 30, 2011
Amazing footage from the International Space Station reveals our planet in all its humbling and inspiring glory.
Jamelle Agbuis
Sep 30, 2011
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.
Jamelle Agbuis
Sep 30, 2011
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
Jamelle Agbuis
Sep 30, 2011
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.
Genalyn Corocoto
Sep 30, 2011
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.
Erik Pineda
Sep 30, 2011
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
Jamelle Agbuis
Sep 30, 2011
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?
Jamelle Agbuis
Sep 30, 2011
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.
Jamelle Agbuis
Sep 30, 2011
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.
Arlene Paredes
Sep 30, 2011
