SCIENCE

A network of galaxies including the Milky Way has been outlined and named by astronomers as Laniakea.

A study by the Faculty of Medicine at the Umea University in Sweden has found that neurons in the skin have the ability to think.

In the ocean depths off of Australia, 'alien' unclassifiable mushroom-shaped organisms have been found.

After Angelina Jolie revealed that she had a preventative double mastectomy done on her since she was at a higher genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancer, many women are considering genetic testing to see if they carried genes that put them at a higher risk of acquiring breast and ovarian cancer.

A recent study showed that low-carb diets are healthier.

The September sky sees three important astronomical events and five brightest planets. Here is the guide to experience these spectacular celestial events.

The 79-year-old Mary Berry, who is a judge on the popular TV show The Great British Bake Off, in an interview with Radio Times, said that she would not like to live beyond 90 years of age.

Microbes can mark you out, intrude into your health domain, and leave traces of your identity everywhere.

The purity of crystal methamphetamine, also called ice, had gone up 20 per cent the past four years in Australia, according to Sam Biondo, head of the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association.

The advantage of eating healthy food is enormous, apart from the fact that you will be able to get all the extra pounds off your body.

Listening to one’s favourite music and songs can make you nostalgic and take you down the memory lane.

Health workers, including alcohol treatment providers, expressed concern that the prioritisation given to alcohol harm might not trickle to them especially on additional funding.

Volcanoes erupted in Iceland and Papua New Guinea.

The wonder drug shows some indication to fight the viral outbreak.

A British couple named Brett and Nagmeh King were arrested in Malaga, Spain, after they took their five-year-old son with cancer, Ashya King, from a hospital in Britain without doctors' consent to seek advanced medical treatment.

On Aug 24, images of a mid-level solar flare were captured by the US space agency National Aeronautic and Space Administration's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Danish authorities have been crticised by Hollywood star, Charlie Sheen, as fourteen anti-whaling activists were arrested in the North Atlantic.

As an attempt to save millions of animal lives that are lost during laboratory testing, scientists are creating artificial micro humans that would replace these animals.

A new study conducted by the scientists from the Universities of Cambridge Aberdeen has found that an increase in the consumption of meat would cause global warming.

Male addicts who were treated with methadone were found to have reduced levels of testosterone, according to a new study conducted by McMaster University in Canada, Science Daily News reported.

Sept 1 is National Disaster Prevention Day in Japan and to observe it, the Trade and Industry Ministry advised citizens to stock toilet paper

Normally, mashing a woman's breast would get the masher a sexual assault charge, or at the very least, a slap on the face courtesy of the owner of the mammary glands.

Dr Jauhar's book showing that the American medical profession is ill with greed has created shock waves.

Twenty-year-old Isabelle Roberts from Tipton, West Midlands, was rushed to the Russells Hall Hospital after dislocating her jaw when she screamed during the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Tuesday evening. The video showing her failed ice bucket challenge has gone viral and has been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook.

Bad memories can be overwritten by manipulating the brain cells, thereby reversing the emotions attached to a memory.

An hour after sunset on the 31st of August, skywatchers saw three cosmic bodies, Mars, Saturn and Moon, together.

Around 400 million years ago the fish began exploring land and evolved into tetrapods that are today's amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. It is a still unknown as to how these fishes could use their bodies and fins to move on land and conform to the environment.

On August 31, an object flashing light of red, blue and green were spotted in the skies of southeast Melbourne and could most likely be a gyrocopter with LED lights.

A survey of the priority search area for MH370 in the Indian Ocean is almost complete with the help of two ships that used multi beam sonar.