The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has started targeting companies now that the carbon tax has been scrapped. It has specifically ordered airline companies Qantas and Virgin to explain why they cannot pass on to travelers the supposed savings they generated from implementing the said tax.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jul 30, 2014
Astronomers at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unearthed a mystery signal which further confirmed the fact that the Universe is such a huge place which is full of the unknown.
Ma Evelyn Castino Quilas
Jul 30, 2014
A new study suggests that green sea turtles have created a scientific record by swimming the longest distance when considering marine animal migration.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 30, 2014
Crystal Cruises, a luxury cruise operator, announced that it will offer an opportunity to take a trip to view the environmental devastation at the Arctic region and would set sail from Aug 16, 2016 to Sept 17, 2016.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 30, 2014
The quest for alien life has been traditionally relegated to the discovery of electromagnetic radiation from alien civilizations. But a new study suggested that industrial pollution from alien factories may now help search for alien life.
Ma Evelyn Castino Quilas
Jul 30, 2014
Hanwha Eagles, a struggling Korean baseball team who are being called the Buddhist Saints, has over the last five years lost four hundred matches.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 30, 2014
Global warming has led to the "dramatic" loss of ice on New Zealand's Southern Alps. According to a new study, the mountain range has lost 34 per cent of its permanent ice and snow since 1977.
Reissa Su
Jul 30, 2014
In what could be considered an irony, Juma, a tiger at the Queensland zoo bit the hand of its handler on Tuesday, which is International Tiger Day.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 30, 2014
Dogs exhibit streaks of jealousy when their owners showered more affection or attention to another dog or human, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 29, 2014
On Saturday, July 26, puzzled North York witnesses took to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube their UFO sighting experience. Mysterious bright lights were spotted flashing over the Yonge St. and Sheppard Ave. neighborhood in Toronto, Canada.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Jul 29, 2014
New Technology to Build Invisible Material Using Light .
Indrani Bhattacharyya
Jul 29, 2014
Health officials in New Zealand have pleaded for action from the Ministry of Health to ensure that there is no epidemic of skin cancer. According to experts, thousands could be affected with non-melanoma skin cancers.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 29, 2014
The north Toronto city on Saturday night had a UFO experience with the social media abuzz with speculations by people spotting strange, flashing lights over the city, reported Guardian LV. North York residents tweeted that they saw colourful lights moving in sky at Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue. The Toronto Police also confirmed having got calls from the public informing of pink, green and white lights in a single diagonal line.
Kalyan Kumar
Jul 29, 2014
The United Kingdom is giving green and renewable energy a bigger push by converting three former coal mining land into solar farms in the East Midlands.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 29, 2014
The 2014 Delta Aquarids meteor shower, which is set to peak on July 28-29, promises a good viewing experience for the interested observers due to the absence of a bright Moon in the night sky. As the Delta Aquarids peak, the Perseid meteor shower begins after the NASA cameras in New Mexico spotted a couple of Perseid fireballs on Sunday, July 27, after Earth entered the stream of debris that the Comet Swift-Tuttle left behind.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Jul 28, 2014
Russian Foton-M4, launched on July 19, suddenly lost contact with a satellite that was carrying a pack of geckos and a webcam a week after its launch.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 28, 2014
Timber Wolf, a male koala, being considered Australia's luckiest koala, was hit by a car on the Bruce Highway on July 25 and then hung on to the car grille for a span of 80 kilometres and survived.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jul 28, 2014
The largest living animal that walks the earth has also overtaken the dogs in the animal kingdom when it comes to olfactory capabilities. Elephants have been found to have 10,000 genes devoted to recognising odour, which is the largest ever to be discovered in the animal kingdom. That amount of genes that they posses with regard to smell is twice as that of dogs and five times more than that of humans.
Sarah Thomas
Jul 25, 2014
A new tablet Truvada, made by Pharmaceutical Company Gilead Sciences, can prevent transmission of HIV virus, according to a study published in Lancet, a medical journal. The participants in 2014’s International AIDS Conference rejoiced and welcomed the new pill that is said to prevent transmission of HIV Virus.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 25, 2014
American senior citizens are found to be suffering lesser strokes, irrespective of their sex or race, reveals a study conducted by Dr. Josef Coresh from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 25, 2014
A 13-year-old sixth-grade student, Lauren Arrington, who rose to fame with her science fair project about the invasive potential of lion fish, has been accused of stealing the Lionfish Research by former ecology grad student Zack Jud.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 25, 2014
Condoms are the only known preventive measures against sexually transmitted infections. While young adults are aware of what condoms are, they are totally oblivious to female condoms which is one of the only two barrier protective methods, a new study by two UT Arlington researchers have found
Sarah Thomas
Jul 25, 2014
Birds possess a high intellectual dexterity than known before. The study aimed at discovering the casual cognition of the bird with the use of a water displacement paradigm. Lead author Logan said that the study discovered and demonstrated the crows' ability to differentiate between varying volumes of water, a test that 7 to 10 year olds passed successfully. She said, "We provide the strongest evidence so far that the birds attend to cause-and-effect relationships by choosing options that ...
Sarah Thomas
Jul 25, 2014
Salicylic acid, modified into acetylsalicylic acid, and used as Aspirin can cure breast cancer, reveals a study conducted by Dr. Michelle Holmes from Harvard University.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 25, 2014
Opinions often differ when it comes to surveys, not to mention the high cost and effort of conducting one. That is, scientists are beginning to consider other ways to measure occurrences such as illicit drug abuse.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 25, 2014
People who get less than six hours’ sleep in the night are at a higher risk of suffering from a stroke, developing type 2 diabetes and high BP, say researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Smitha Nambiar
Jul 24, 2014
Charlotte Ponce had lost her ear and other parts of her face when she was a baby. Her birth parents' pet raccoon bit her right ear off, her nose and parts of her mouth when she was just three months old. But a plastic surgeon at Beaumont Children's Hospital, Dr. Kongkrit Chaiyasate whom Charlotte's adopted mother Sharon says has been a godsend, will conduct a surgery to transplant the ear that has been growing under her skin on her right arm to her right ear.
Sarah Thomas
Jul 24, 2014
At least 32,000 people in Taiwan were left without power supply after typhoon Matmo pummeled the east Asian country. Matmo has likewise made landfall in China, the country's second weather disturbance within a week.
Jul 24, 2014
Australia and the United States may have been connected long ago. A new study from the University of Tasmania researchers analysed old sedimentary rocks on the island and those from the American states of Idaho, Montana and some parts of British Columbia.
Reissa Su
Jul 24, 2014
Opioid abuse more or less results in more than half a million years of life lost per year, a report by PsychCentral said.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 24, 2014