SCIENCE

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have launched a new group that will help mobilise investment in transformative energy solutions and compensate for the insufficient global funding for tackling climate change.

Even after detailed brain scans of 1400 men and women, scientists failed to find patterns that would differentiate male brain from female brain.

The Tonsil Orchid has avoided human eye for more than 30 years while the rare tree snail has never been collected live before.

Panama disease will be the cause of banana’s extinction, according to a study published in PLOS Pathogen.

Scientists have found a way to prolong youth, through studies on roundworms.

Les Mills' CEO weighs in on the climate change debate with his theory of "globesity."

Authorities have issued an orange level alert in Beijing, the worst smog level recorded in the city this year.

Japanese scientists in Utsunomiya University Center for Optical Research and Education have created touchable holograms.

The Australian prime minister did not sign the fossil fuel agreement at the Paris climate summit.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has reinstated emission cuts of 26 to 28 percent by 2030 at the Paris conference on climate change.

Japan’s decision to start whaling early next year has been condemned by Australia and other nations although Japan is defending itself saying its revised whaling programme is scientific.

The Bureau of Meteorology has asked people not to use the telephone during a thunderstorm.

A team of scientists from ETH Zürich turns gold into foam.

The real hard work starts at COP21 as delegates agree to emission reduction target to limit global warming.

Taking 10 micrograms of the drug LSD every fourth day before starting work helps in out-of-the-box thinking, says American psychologist and writer James Fadiman.

Scientists at World Meteorological Organisation say that 2015 is likely to be the hottest year ever and have urged world leaders to take immediate action post Paris climate change meet.

Astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren show viewers how they celebrate Thanksgiving in space.

NASA says that the temperature in the Antarctic region has been decreasing.

Mars’ biggest moon Phobos has already started fall apart due to gravity and will eventually blow itself to debris encircling the parent planet like a Saturn ring.

Scientists at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, made one species of flatworm grow the head and brain of another.

Thrill-seekers can have an out-of-the-world experience of space travel in two years as Jeff Bezos successfully tests its unmanned passenger rocket “New Shephard.”

Pseudo-scientists may not like Albert Einstein’s “General Theory of Relativity” for not being related to everyday life but his genius is being celebrated world over.

Humane Society International (HSI) opposes the government’s decision to implement harmful smart drum lines.

SpaceX has secured its first crewed mission to ISS, the second of four guaranteed orders, under CCtCap contract with NASA.

A new species of anthropoid primate dubbed Apidium zuetina has been found in Libya by a team of scientists led by Kansas University.

Experts warn that more than half of the world’s primates are on the brink of extinction as a result of an extensive habitat loss.

NASA cannot handle long-term space explorations and possible manned mission to Mars due to its lack of countermeasures to combat possible problems.

South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell held a meeting with state government officials and 50 farmers to discuss possible ways to deal with the droughts.

Prince Charles believes that climate change is one of the causes behind the current Syrian turmoil that has already resulted in the loss of hundreds of civilians.