SCIENCE

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.

Jan. 19, 2014 will be a trademark in this year because Mercury will be visible in the evening sky. The first planet in the solar system will be seen right after sunset in the West around 45 to 60 minutes. Last Dec. 29, 2013 - just days before 2014 - Mercury passed behind the sun and it is seen in the Earth.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be sending the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft to the 1,760-foot (500-meter)-wide Asteroid Bennu in 2016. The space agency is now inviting the public to send in their names to be included in the “Messages to Bennu!” microchip aboard the spacecraft.

A new video has been posted on YouTube that claims to have captured a real mermaid

Australia’s fauna is getting high-tech. After scientists have given sharks the power to tweet, they are now gluing tiny sensors onto honey bees. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) are gluing microchips on bees in a bid to control the diseases that are threatening their population.

Anyone may think it's fun to send something up in space to an asteroid. Now NASA is giving that chance along with the Planetary Society.

Horny people would probably say "See, I told you" upon hearing the result of a study done by the University of Maryland researchers. The study linked the production of more new brain cells after mating.

There’s no such thing as sixth sense, Australian researchers have learned. Their study paper shows that even though some people can reliably sense changes that they could not visually identify, it doesn’t mean that they have ESP or extrasensory perception.

A UFO sighting of a classic disc-shaped object in Barnoldswick, England got featured in the Lancashire Telegraph newspaper. More witnesses stepped forward after the newspaper requested their Twitter followers to share their UFO sighting stories.

Australia will be extending a US$50,000 cash assistance to the Tonga government to help survivors of the category five storm Cyclone Ian that lashed on the Ha'apai group of islands over the weekend.

A day after volunteers worked to divest and re-float eight pilot whales on Tuesday, they were aghast to find the animals stranded again on Wednesday along the beach shoes.

For FIT Biotech's endeavor to lower viral load, Duke University's new found Achilles' heel and North Carolina University's targeted poison are three new researches which may lead to the development of an effective vaccine against HIV.

Australia continued to burn with some areas such as Victoria hitting a record 46 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. Other towns registered 45C, while it was 40C in nine of the Bureau of Meteorology's forecast districts.

For years, it has been a tough challenge for various astrophysicists to discover other planets that can serve as the second version of Earth. Most of the exoplanets spotted turn out to be some chunks of rock or maybe gigantic bodies of gas.

The 2014 Mini Moon or also called the “Micro-Moon” is set to peak on Wednesday night, January 15. Sky watchers will be able to observe the Full Moon appearing approximately 250,000 miles away, 14% smaller and 30% dimmer than the Super Moon, a full Moon having its closest distance to the planet Earth in orbit.

There will be another effort to be made for installing cameras on the International Space Station in the next couple of weeks

Amid cost-cutting measures, Canada has closed seven of its 11 Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries across the country. Around 1,000 scientists lost their jobs in the process. But what's saddening were the books which observers claimed never got digitized. They believed the books have been all together damaged and burned.

Fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have been detected 124 times highly radioactive than the accepted limit, a report by the Asahi Shimbun said.

T memory stem cells have been discovered as possible long-term viral HIV reservoirs that can be used as potential targets of advanced treatments. Experts found that these infected cells prevent antiviral therapy effectiveness even for several years of treatment..

Residents at Northern Territory have been advised to prepare necessary precautions as a cyclone could potentially ram into the region on Wednesday.