Ben, the rat that the high-pitched boy Michael Jackson sang about would surely not be happy at the massive action being undertaken by the New Zealand government to eradicate the estimated 30 million rats living in the country.
Printer ink makers and ink refilling stations may soon have an unexpected competition from a printer which uses H20 and not ink. The technology was developed by a team of chemists from China.
The ribbon has been cut for the world's largest solar bridge found in London.
New Zealand has opened its first manufacturing plant, that will use recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste to create food grade PET packaging, on Wednesday .
Yoga involves meditation wherein the eyes of the yoga practitioner are closed. Thus, it makes sense that the attire one wears in a yoga class is of minimal importance, except that it should be clothing that would allow movement.
The debate whether to remove the foreskin of infant boys' penises had partly been settled in Sweden and Denmark, following the strong recommendation of a ban on non-medical circumcision of male newborns.
Scientists are not just scared of how Avian, Swine influenza, and HIV/AIDS can bring out harm today. They fear that two deadliest plagues from the past have been connected and have the potential to return which may kill people within 24 hours if mutated as airborne infection.
"Goodnight, Earth. Goodnight, humanity." Barely six weeks above the soil of the moon, China's moon rover Jade Rabbit encountered a mechanical problem that could signal the end of the country's ambitious space exploration program.
NASA astronauts may have finally found a way to get pizza in space without needing to have it delivered to them and that is by 3D printing.
Curiosity and Opportunity, two of the most popular NASA rovers, continue to share to the world essential details they regularly discover about the Red Planet. They claimed they have discovered two livable places in Mars.
Ceres, the largest asteroid and also the dwarf planet in the Solar Sytem, has been spotted with steam coming from its opposite sides. The European astronomers reported that they noticed the asteroid’s double steam while making several observations using the Herschel Space Telescope between October 2012 and March 2013.
Danish scientists claims the possibility for mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV with a novel strategy of unmasking viral reservoirs to the surface for the immune system to fight off. In lab settings, the strategy worked successfully and now await clinical trials in human setting.
New Zealand scientists have discovered an ancient fossil belonging to a dolphin family that once lived around the country's waters millions of years ago. The recent discovery was named "Papahu taitapu" and known as the first of its kind to have the closest relationship to modern dolphins and toothed whales.
TransCanada Corp has started operating on Wednesday the Texas leg of its controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
Effective March 1, 2014, Beijing will no longer be approving proposals for new constructions of industrial plants, including oil refining, steel, cement and thermal power plants. Proposals for improvements of existing ones will likewise be barred.
The US Space Agency NASA announced on Tuesday that the results of study on climate change revealed that 2013 ranked as the 7th warmest year on Earth since the year 1880.
The debate over whether boys need to be circumcised or not was given another anti-argument after three indigenous Northern Territory teenagers were recently hospitalised over a botched ritual circumcision.
"The Vampire Diaries" (TVD) star Ian Somerhalder is promoting The Plastic Bank which aims to use plastic waste as currency. Somerhalder is a well-known environmentalist who has set up his own foundation called the Ian Somerhalder Foundation (ISF) which is for the education and empowerment of people to protect the environment and the animals. He tweeted about The Plastic Bank on his official Twitter account to help spread the world about the newest social enterprise that not only targets pl...
China's dangerous air pollution isn't only confined to harm its residents. It has been found to be dangerously invoking more severe and frequent cyclones in the northwest Pacific.
Electricity suppliers have managed to restore all of Auckland's power supply on Wednesday after ex-tropical Cyclone June's powerful wild winds hit the area on Tuesday.
The polar vortex is back and Canada is frozen once again.
Australia's heat wave lasting for several weeks had matched the intensity of rising temperatures before the tragic Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.
The simple tweet coming from the European Space Agency (ESA) confirms the return of the Comet-chasing probe Rosetta after 31 months of hibernation. The Rosetta, which has been placed in hibernation back in 2011 to conserve energy, is now back and ready for its long space mission of meeting up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Rescuers and volunteers in New Zealand remained optimistic the 46 pilot whales they refloated on Monday have been able to go swim in the deep waters. They scoured the beaches on Farewell Spit on Tuesday and found not one of the beautiful creatures got stranded again.
The owners of a reptile zoo in Canada are conveying a critical public appeal to raise funds for the survival of the zoo.
Brazilian native, 52-year-old Sandra Nabuco, got the shock of her life when a porcupine fell on her head, injuring her scalp with 200 sharp quills.
China can still see the sun without the need for a giant television screen. A new report claiming that the Asian nation has started televising the sunrise on LED monitors because of its high smog level is erroneous.
A mysterious looking rock appeared right in front of NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover which reportedly appears like a jelly doughnut.
As the Pacific Ocean continues to have rising temperatures, extreme weather events will become more frequent. According to a new study led by CSIRO climate scientist Wenju Cai, the frequency of El Niño events is associated with the effects of climate change.
Large amounts of rainfall are expected to fall down on New Zealand and Australia early this week. Kiwi farmers at upper North Island however are excited over the development.
