The Sight Which Posed Danger
When Robert 'Hope' aka Kirobo goes to the space station to reunite with astronaut Koichi Wakata, it will be able to recognize the astronaut's face and also give an emotional response and greet him in Japanese.
Two different cities shared something in common on Saturday, July 27, as witnesses claimed UFO sightings in the area. Mysterious lights appeared on Saturday night floating above the skies of Tucson City in Arizona and Kansas City which ignited discussions on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
Brazilian scientists have developed an HIV vaccine and planned to test it on monkeys by late 2013. The early stage of the newly developed vaccine aimed to maintain the low viral level of an infected person rather than eliminate it.
Smartphone maker Apple Inc gets tangled in yet another controversy, this time involving its suppliers Foxconn Technology Group and Unimicron Technology, alleged to have been dumping toxic wastewater from heavy metals into China's local rivers.
Experts and spectators are anticipating the 2013 Comet ISON to be the “Comet of the Century” as it shines brightly comparable to a full moon while making its closest approach to Earth on December 26, 2013. However, astronomer Ignacio Ferrín of the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia claims that Comet ISON may not be an amazing spectacle due to its recent behavior.
Another UFO sighting was reported last Saturday, July 28, which took place in the Netherlands. The UFO Sightings Daily reported that a mysterious orb hovering on a lake baffled a group of young people who witnessed the rare phenomenon.
97 per cent of the animal kingdom is not monogamous. While it may be natural to be polygamous in the animal world, it’s also natural for some animals to eat their own offspring! Isn't it time these celebrities evolved to overcome some of their most primitive urges?
Anonymous witnesses have been reporting UFO activities in Canada this month of July. One witness filmed the mysterious lights moving about in the dark skies above northern Whitby in Ontario, Canada on July 26 while the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database revealed two more UFO sightings over Hamilton, Ontario.
The Canadian province of Manitoba will ban in 2014 the use of coal and petroleum coke for heating to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. It will also collect an emissions tax on industrial users of the two commodities other than heating.
A new research from Australia revealed that small dose of testosterone can delay muscle aging
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially released the dazzling image of the 2013 Comet ISON that Hubble Space Telescope was able to capture last April 30, 2013. The image shows Comet ISON speeding its way close to planet Earth with a visible tail and spectacular background.
A NASA spacecraft, Karen Fox, captured on video various images of a massive hole in the sun's atmosphere. The solar anomaly known as a coronal hole was estimated to be almost a quarter of the sun's size and reported to be emitting solar gas and other material into space.
A video, now getting more hits in sharing sites such as YouTube, is disturbing those who had viewed the images because of its disturbing cruelty to animals. The short video showed a mother kangaroo show twice by an arrow on the spine and leg.
French researchers have discovered one of the largest viruses, the Pandoravirus, known to science in a Melbourne’s La Trobe University pond. The Pandoravirus has been named after the myth of Pandora’s Box because of its potential for great scientific consequences.
A study by German and Swiss scientists published in the journal Nature Geoscience has disclosed that earthquakes not only trigger landslides and tsunamis and do massive damages to infrastructure, not to mention lives lost. They also trigger the release of damaging greenhouse gas methane from underground reservoirs.
Since the early days of space travel, a consistent complaint has been of drinking coffee in a cup. It was not an easy task for astronomers to have a cup of coffee, while they were in space. Pouring hot coffee into cups is a dangerous task. Fluids behave in a very different way outside of Earth's atmosphere. Drinking coffee in the microgravity environs of space is a tough proposition.
A joint military mission by the U.S. and Australia with about 30,000 soldiers was forced to abandon bombs from an aircraft after failing to land their fighter jets safely. The US Navy told the Australian government that it would offer any help required to remove the bombs
mistakenly dropped inside the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park .
HIV/AIDS has no cure known to date and WHO recommends early treatment for patients to prevent spreading the disease. Several techniques have been recently reported which treated few people; however, the effectiveness is as high as the danger it imposes. So, if you are not aware of it, here are 15 myths and facts about HIV/AIDS.
China, the world's chief emitter of carbon dioxide greenhouse gases, is poised to invest 1.7 trillion yuan (AU$298 billion) to remedy the growing air smog pollution problem lording over its horizons which has killed thousands and sickened hundreds over the years. Specifically, the amount will be used to institute programmes and measures to combat the smog situation in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province.
The set used in the 1990s movie Jurassic Park would look like a miniature model when Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer builds the world's largest dinosaur park.
Researchers from the University of St Andrews in Scotland discovered that marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify one another. The proof of this is that the animals responded when they heard their unique call - which is similar to the function of a human name - played back to them.
According to a report released on Thursday by the US Department of Energy, rising temperatures can reduce production at power plants. Power plants may reduce their power generation or shut-down temporarily.
Medical researchers are closing in to find a cure for HIV/AIDS and the medical world formulated the possible output from many positive results and development globally. The United Nations's main goal is to halt and reverse the spread of AIDS by 2015.
Our blue planet, Earth smiled from far away distance of Saturn and posed to the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image captured Saturn's rings and Earth with its moon in the same frame.
Scientists have discovered a fossilized tooth of the biggest and oldest aquatic reptile in Australia in Gippsland.
One of the highlights of a tour of New Zealand's Parliament building in Wellington, more popularly called the Beehive, is a short video clip on the building being earthquake-proof.
Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969 and nearly 600 million television viewers watched the historical event live across the world, including a five-year-old Jeff Bezos, now the CEO of Amazon. A day before the 44th anniversary, Bezos disclosed that the two rocket engines that his team had found from the depths of the Atlantic are from Apollo 11.
Medical researchers have found a new way fight HIV/AIDS by using bone marrow treatment and cell engineering. The so-called Berlin patient opened a new hope towards possible cure and end the war against a worldwide epidemic.
A 12-year old boy with HIV and leukaemia died after a historic cell transplant at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital aimed to get the same result of three men cured of HIV and blood cancers.
