SCIENCE

A group composed of scientists from around the world has targeted New Zealand's Southern Alps for drilling, in the hopes their study would enable them to understand how earthquakes are produced and set off.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is out with guidelines for whale watching

Rangers have finally caught the 3.7-m monster saltwater crocodile which stalked Aussie primary school children every time the bell rang at Injinoo Junior Campus in Cape York, a small, remote school at the northern end of Queensland.

Scientists from the University of Queensland have simulated photons or quantum light particles that can move through time and demonstrated how they behave while travelling in wormholes. According to scientists, the experiment shows strange behaviour from the quantum particles, but on a larger scale, time travel continues to be inconceivable.

A tornado classified as an EF1 twister ripped through the town of New Tecumseth in Ontario, Canada, topping down hydro lines and trees. Environment Canada said its maximum winds were between 135 and 175 kilometres per hour. Reports of fatalities have yet to be received.

The Forbes Global 2000 ranks annually the top 2,000 public companies in the world as assessed by Forbes magazine on the basis of sales, profit, assets and market value and has been published from 2004 onwards.

Residents of Canada have been advised to brace for a warm and humid weather, possibly with thunderstorms, as the country celebrates its four-day long weekend, Canada Day from June 28 to July 1.

Regenerative Sciences, a medical company, has locked horns with the Food and Drug Administration. Regenerative sciences developed a procedure, using patients' own stem cells, to tend to orthopedic injuries.

An electronic chip with microscopic chemical sensors have been developed by Israeli scientists. It is said that this chip can detect explosives in air whose concentrations are as low as a few molecules for every thousand trillion.

A revolutionary pacemaker is being developed by University of Bath and University of Bristol that synchronises the heart rate with breathing.

A tired brain can make a pleasant human being get cranky, get annoyed easily, turn daffy and be unable to do the simplest of things.

An idea that came up after attending a conference and now a mission that will most likely send bits of life to the Red Planet, the student-led, crowd-funded project "Time Capsule to Mars" is aiming to make a connection between Earth and Mars through launching photos, audio and video encased in capsules into space.

An unnamed witness in Newfoundland spotted a pink UFO over Trout Creek, Montana while browsing on Google Earth. The UFO sighting reached Scott Waring of UFO Sightings Daily and the UFO hunter uploaded a YouTube video to discuss the captured Google Earth image that shows the UFO and apparently its alien passenger.

Scientists have been fascinated by the concept of converting body heat into electricity.

A couple aggressive animals, likely to be coyotes, are on the loose in Canada as police warned local residents to watch out.

Movies and TV shows often portray the phenomenon of a person's soul leaving his body as what happens when a man or woman dies. That depiction matches, more or less, the Christian belief that man is a being made of a physical body and a spiritual soul, and death would cause the soul to leave the human body.

An earthquake of 7.9 magnitude strength struck about 15 miles from Little Sitkin Island, Alaska, on Monday, triggering small tsunamis with less than seven inches high of waves.

Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an alert about three patients who have reported they feel intoxicated after taking in docetaxel, a chemotherapeutic drug.

Many people worldwide don't get a good night's sleep of eight hours every night.

Isaiah Austin, the former Baylor center who declared for the 2014 NBA Draft, has a basketball career put to a halt after being diagnosed of having a genetic disorder called Marfan syndrome.

Michael Schumacher's manager announced that the medical documents of Michael Schumacher have been stolen and offered for sale to the media.

Smoking is one habit whose adverse effects have been documented often. But compare it to the effects of smokeless tobacco? Not many reports have been published. Published in Circulation, a study from Sweden, shows that after a heart attack, quitting smokeless tobacco is as beneficial as quitting smoking.

Currently, it appears priorities are shifting gears as NASA's chief scientist revealed in a recent interview that the space agency are planning to colonise, send humans to Mars' surface and become pioneers of the Red Planet.

The Bureau of Meteorology warned residents of Sydney and south-east NSW on Monday to brace for damaging winds and blizzard conditions that could last until Tuesday.

People off the coast of Port Macquarie were treated to a display of Migaloo, a rare white whale considered as one of the only all white Humpback whales.

Astronomers are pushing themselves to construct a huge telescope in space rather than launching a single rocket. They came up with this idea as the Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler aren't going to be of much use now as they are old and crippled.

Four teenage girls, Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin and Bella Eniola, have experimented on a liter of urine placed in their generators, apparently getting six hours of electricity.

For the first time ever, NASA satellites have observed that there are regular deformities in the Earth and the Moon because of the strong gravitational relationship between them.

Football, one of the most unique and demanding sports, requires immense strength and skill. Demanding fitness, the game puts is players through the best physical fitness techniques. Football has seen the strongest players in history as well as in the present. The strongest players, deemed fit for the game, take their teams to soaring heights.