What a better way to greet the New Year from space? NASA astronauts will be welcoming 2014 from space and revelers at the New York’s Time Square will have the rare chance to watch the greetings from space.
The sun’s north and south poles have changed places said NASA, completing its field reversal at the end of 2013.
As the end of 2013 comes, people will witness the delicate waning crescent moon as the sun rises on December 30. Although winter is really thick on the northern half of the globe, people there will still be able to take a glimpse of the December 30 moon.
Australia's State of Victoria Department of Justice (DOJ) has just unveiled its new FireReady mobile phone app in early Dec. 2013 but some critics say that its performance is poor and not at par with their expectations. It reportedly had a lot issues that hindered it from working properly.
A professor from Iowa State University's Department of Biomedical Services who faked an AIDS cure research resigned from his post. The professor admits faking the cure to get part of $19 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health.
As the year 2014 enters, five supermoon dates are expected and the first one will be on January 1. January 1 will have the first new moon of the month before another one, which will be on January 30 making January 2014 the only month with two supermoons until January 2018 according to EarthSky.
Plastic surgeries don’t help people who obsessively believe themselves to be ugly, according to a study by a Melbourne researcher. Using a new imaging technique, researcher Ben Buchanan uncovers a weak link in the brain of people with body dysmorphic disorder, which forces people to constantly think their physical appearance needs improvement.
HIV research and development achieved several discoveries in 2013 - from drug therapy to unconventional and risky methods to eliminate the virus. Some of them found new things about HIV and plans to put them into trial. Here are some of notable anti-HIV results for this year to know what we can expect for 2014.
An amazing nano-scale microscopic muscle with more than 1000x the strength of humans was reportedly created by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) researchers using the vanadium dioxide inorganic compound.
At least 70 swimmers were injured in a river in Argentina when a school of carnivorous fish believed to be the piranha's cousins attacked on Christmas Day.
Scientists found a message in a bottle in the Canadian Arctic written 54 years ago. The bottle contained predictions of a changing climate causing ice to melt. Two researchers discovered the note on a small and uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic, buried under the rocks.
The NASA spacewalk that will finish up the repair work of the problematic cooling line of the International Space Station is set to happen on Christmas Eve.
Scientists have discovered two new breakthroughs regarding HIV viral loads in infected cells. German researchers have successfully stripped the virus from host cells while Gladstone Institutes cracked HIV secret to unlock new treatments.
Can Australian scorpion venom actually be used for pain management? Scientists from Queensland University, Canada's Dalhousie University and Portugal's Universidade do Porto think so after studying the venom of Australian scorpions and discovering that it might be an effective painkiller. The study is entitled "Evolution Stings: The Origin and Diversification of Scorpion Toxin Peptide Scaffolds."
Canadian holiday merrymakers, wanting to spend the holidays with loved-ones, have been stuck in the airports after a severe ice winter storm. The massive weather turmoil has snapped power lines leaving more than 430,000 households in Ontario and Quebec without electricity.
Scientists from the U.S. and Australia have discovered a way to reverse the ageing process. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and University of New South Wales said they have tested the procedure on mice and it proved to be successful. They are now working to test the method on humans.
Scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered 45 women claimed they were pregnant without having sexual intercourse. Researchers analysed a national population survey in 1995 of 7,870 young adults and adolescents. They also examined the population data in 2008 and 2009. Based on the surveys, researchers found that 1 per cent of the women reported not having any sexual contact but had been pregnant.
China on Thursday announced that it will be building its fourth research base in the Antarctic, the Taishan summer field camp, according to the state-run China Daily.
An anonymous witness reported about spotting UFOs hovering over Mt Annan on December 1 with images of the mysterious light moving across the night sky sent to the Macarthur Chronicle. A week later, other witnesses shared their similar UFO sighting experience that happened as far as Cleveland, Queensland and even in southern California.
Australia's network of legal centres is not happy with the Coalition government and Prime Minister Tony Abbott's decision to cut funding for the Environmental Defenders Offices (EDO). Mr Abbott cut EDO's $10 million worth of funds, which means the offices will not receive money from the government after July 1, 2014.
HIV-positive individuals face more than side effects of antiretroviral drugs and slow progress of the disease, they are actually facing emptiness with constant seeking for love and affection. Eight endless tortures of what HIV brought to its living victims.
The 2013 Comet Lovejoy quietly made its appearance, while the attention of spectators focused on Comet ISON, it continues to impress with its brightness at approximately 4th magnitude. Stunning images of the comet also continue to surface on the Internet for an online viewing experience.
Dr Brian J Morris, the author of the Australian study on the effect of circumcision on sexual gratification, said he is not a member of the Gilgal Society.
A new bird flu H10N8 virus strain has been found in China, and it has killed one woman in the country.
Australia's State of Victoria reveals plans for a FireReady app and an emergency Web site for important fire alerts. This is in response to the alarming rate of destructive and deadly bushfires in Australia.
Environmental conservationists and growth advocates in New Zealand are currently at each other's necks over a planned construction of a monorail that will slice through the country's pristine forests and river made famous in the trilogy films "The Lord of the Rings."
The sun will reportedly "flip upside down" within weeks due to a reverse in polarity of its magnetic field. This is what several scientists are saying. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), measurements from NASA-supported observatories show that the sun's vast magnetic field is indeed about to flip.
Antarctica does not only have ice but diamonds as well. According to scientists, they have found evidence of a type of rock known to contain precious gems like diamonds under the ice. The recent discovery proves to be exciting as more is revealed about Antarctica's mineral resources. Recovering any of the newly-identified rock is currently forbidden by authorities. Mining in the hopes of finding diamonds is banned.
The Bureau of Meteorology said that heatwave for Christmas may disrupt Aussies travel plans.
Hamish Fagg, an engineering student from New Plymouth, is preparing to become the first New Zealander in space. The 21-year-old student has returned from his trip to a space academy camp in Florida after bagging the contest prize for the chance to take a commercial flight to space.
