Aviation regulators from around the world had dismissed New Zealand's jetpack as a "flight of fancy" that didn't need special rules to guide its operation. However, the planned jetpack launch in 2014 has officials scratching their heads as the jetpack creators in New Zealand revealed that the jetpack can fly up to 7,000 feet in the air with a speed of 50 miles per hour.
The video of Vsauce in Youtube debuted yesterday and it had begged some really serious questions about owning properties in the outer space and the laws which had to go along with it
Waving Typhoon Man-yi as a reasonable enough excuse, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has again dislodged contaminated water, this time in the guise of rainwater, into the Pacific Ocean
A group of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Queensland, and Stanford University have come out with a new roadmap identifying the areas or Earth regions that are most vulnerable and least vulnerable to climate change.
A volcano in Peru which had been erupting since Sept 1, had a major explosion on Monday, releasing a cloud of smoke that reached up to 2,500 metres above the crater.
New Zealand celebrities joined protests against proposed laws that will remove the requirement of public consultation on applications for deep-sea gas and oil drilling activities. The proposed law will also abolish the right to conduct a protest at sea. Actors and celebrities like Lucy Lawless, Sam Neill, Robyn Malcom and Sir Ted Thomas, a former Supreme Court judge among others, supported the protests by Maori and environmental groups to urge New Zealand's government not to pass the law.
The Swedish National Food Agency has come up with an idea that a beaver’s anal secretions can possibly be used for creating a vanilla-like taste.
Latest researches show that Antarctica loses the majority of its ice from the underside of submerged ice shelves.
The favourite Japanese dish Tempura normally uses large shrimps or prawns, which are expensive, explaining the high-price of this fancy menu. Soon, Tempuras may be longer since foot-long shrimps the size of a man's forearm have invaded U.S. waters.
New Zealand’s Kakapo, a critically endangered species, has been named the second ugliest animal in the world in an online competition.
The blobfish of the Pacific was voted the world’s ugliest animal in a contest organised by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. The winner of the ugliest animal competition was revealed at Newcastle’s British Science Festival.
Wildfires in the Boulder Colorado region are suspected to have worsened the flash floods experienced by the region on September 11.
New potential HIV vaccine succeeded on eliminating virus inside monkeys and may become a key to finding cure. United States scientists are now starting to make approach on making the vaccine applicable to humans.
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft lift-off at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was supposed to be the highlight last Friday, September 6, but a recently released image shows a tiny frog’s photobomb that stole the attention.
Collaborative efforts to control and manage the escalating global warming and resulting climate change have unfortunately been found being undermined by the continued carbon emissions of 50 of the world's biggest-emitting companies.
Contrary to common belief, it was not human hunting but climate change that wiped out the totality of the woolly mammoth species from the face of earth, a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B said.
El Niño events happening around the world are easily influenced by external changes, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience. And changes in global warming could apparently temper the wrath and strength of these El Niño activities.
What is this new organism that has been baffling people, even the scientific community?
The rim fire at the Yosemite National park has wrecked havoc at the quality of air in nearby cities like Fresno California. Climate change is reported to cause more wildfires especially in western U.S.
Are you ready for any of these?
A lot of women in China are getting infertile, no thanks to the government's one-child policy but to the air pollution which has gripped and seriously affected the health of thousands in the country, according to statistics gathered by researchers.
The United States and New Zealand have agreed to reduce the coverage of a proposed project involving the protection of an area in the Ross Sea of Antarctica. The two countries scaled back their plan to increase the chances of its international acceptance in a meeting on October. Meanwhile, scientists were shocked to discover life in the frozen lakebed of Antarctica. British Antarctic Survey researchers have proven that there is life even in the most extreme environmental conditions. A study pu...
A new class of drugs is being researched to give high resistance or even immunity against HIV virus after observation on the viral receptors. This new method may eventually lead to the cure of HIV and AIDS in the near future.
A new study argues that more frequent screening for breast cancers has benefits particularly to women who are in their 40s. Screening for breast cancer is a controversial subject. Related debates were reignited after Angelina Jolie spoke about certain measures she took to combat breast cancer.
Even the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) office has finally realized the power of social media by deciding to join Instagram. After a long time, NASA is able to share the most amazing photos ever taken of the universe. Their very first image was launched last September 6.
It still remains a mystery on what lit up the Italian’s northeast skies last September 3 at around 2:30 to 2:45 am.
Will you tremble in fear or drop a jaw in wonder once you hear about the recent scientists’ discovery that the world’s largest volcano can be found under the Pacific Ocean?
Vaccine against HIV is one of the most challenging medical research considered today even with all the advancement of mankind in science. But researchers from Canada have been praised for successfully passing the Phase 1 human clinical trial.
The "TED talks" organization, once founded on the idea of spreading good ideas, has become the new priesthood of status quo dogma. The TED organization doesn't want you to hear the really important, breakthrough advancements in scientific thinking, and to enforce that intellectual ignorance, it has resorted to censoring and suppressing two of the most important scientists our world has ever produced.
The earthquake witnessed by a small town called Youngstown in Ohio was caused by a drilling process known as "fracking," according to a report. The town had not recorded an earthquake since 1776. The town witnessed an earthquake in 2011.
The extremely high levels of ammonia discharged by a plant in just a span of 40 hours have killed a whopping number of 110 tonnes of fish from a river in China's central Hubei province.
