SCIENCE

What the world will be like under a changed climate – a leaked report from IPPC reveals the answer

Iran will blast another space monkey within a month, according to a report in the Iranian Web site Press TV.

Stories about UFOs are top movie themes but some celebrities also believe in them and by extension, believe in aliens too. But it’s not just celebs who believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Funeral directors in Norway discovered a problem caused by a 30-year burial practice in the country of wrapping corpses in plastic before burying them. The plastic wrap, similar to one used to keep sandwiches fresh, is the reason the dead bodies do not rot.

The frequently asked question now on the 2013 Comet ISON near Sun and Earth flyby is: Will the “Comet of the Century” dazzle viewers or disappoint? A study that scientists at the Lowell Observatory and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) conducted suggests that Comet ISON’s close approach to the Sun will unlikely end its spectacular display.

A recent research has found that the most effective cure against hangovers can be beverages, Sprite and soda water. The study was conducted in a Chinese laboratory at the Sun Yet-Sun University in Guangzhou, China.

Are we really not alone? It is possible that a soon-to-expire star, which was as fiery and lively as own sun millions of years ago, could provide some solid answers to this age-old question.

With the U.S. government shutdown, New Zealand scientists will take over research activities in Antarctica as their American counterparts have withdrawn their ongoing operations at McMurdo base.

The Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii has recently released its discovery of an unknown planet spotted cold and lonely without any sun.

A gruesome but incredible time-lapse video shows how a lizard decomposes and turns into a skeleton. The lizard is eaten up by beetles and maggots until all that is left is the creature's tough skin and bones.

Slade Dill is now on health news headlines after surviving a flesh-eating virus. His recovery has amazed his doctors. The eighth-grader was just playing tag when he cut his knee running.

New prophylactic vaccine cured monkeys of simian immunodeficiency virus or SIV, an HIV and AIDS-like illness for primates, gave experts and researchers new hope for functional HIV cure. Cats' version of HIV aka feline immunodeficiency virus may also unlock further methods to defeat virus causing AIDS.

Suzanne Somers has proven Miley Cyrus wrong. In an interview in the Today show, Miley said 40-year-olds no longer have sex but American actress Suzanne Somers says she and her partner have sex a couple of times a day.

NASA is currently on the hot seat after it decided to bar Chinese scientists to an upcoming conference in November. China has cried discrimination. Some U.S. scientists likewise expressed disgust.

Six workers of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been directly exposed to leaking radioactive water. The Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the plant's operator, on Wednesday said the unfortunate accident occurred due to carelessness when one of the workers detached a pipe connected to a water treatment system at the site.

Member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) collectively agreed on Wednesday to share satellite data information that will monitor the haze development in each country in a bid to curb illegal fires and prevent its occurrence and spread in the region.

The 2013 Comet ISON's closest approach to planet Mars last October 1 had built up the excitement for a remarkable display but the “Comet of the Century” was not able to meet the expectations of the scientists in-charge with the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera. Astronomer Ignacio Ferrin from FACom, Universidad de Antioquia gave his evaluation on the latest Comet ISON data and discovered signs on its “imminent demise.”

Peter Higgs and Francois Englert were the physicists who were instrumental in the discovery of the "God particle" that won the Nobel for Physics. Their names were finally hailed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Tuesday after waiting for 50 years. It may be long to get the Nobel but they eventually had it.

If you haven't heard of the drug PMA, it's probably because it's being sold as something else and a mere change in name has proven to be a fatal alteration indeed. In August of this year, the Office for National Statistics made public figures on drug-related deaths in 2012. While the statistics themselves were about equal to the previous years, what stood out were the deaths associated with PDA.

Apparently, some male insect-eating marsupials, such as the mouse-like antechinus and the possum-like phascogales, have killer sex. In fact, the very act of mating with their own kind literally kills them.

An announcement made allegedly by NASA that claims to shake the entire Earth on November 13 emerged to be a complete FAKE!

We are often curious to know about the number of years one could live. We could devise a life plan if we did know about it. Finally, here it is! A watch that could predict the death date of the person who wears it.

In October 2013, another remarkable sky gazing event for the spectators will be available with the 2013 penumbral lunar eclipse scheduled Wednesday, Oct. 18. The subtle-type penumbral eclipse will have the moon dimming slightly as it glides through the edge of planet Earth's shadow, known as penumbra.

Australia's south coast is expected to reach 40 degrees, a little over that and it may well be the hottest day of the year. One cause of this might be the hot air mass that has been building over the northern parts of the territory while the bodies of water surrounding the continent have been no help as the warm surface temperature continues to rise.

Typhoon Fitow, the strongest typhoon to hit China since 1951 that emanated from the east coast, has left at least five people dead, four missing and half a million people affected and displaced by floods.

What could have been a peaceful and relaxing week-long holiday for residents turned otherwise when northern China was again surrounded by fog and pollution on Sunday. The situation was so extreme that authorities had to suspend air flight operations as well as closed at least six expressways.

While Nathan Verhelst, a 44-year-old Belgian transsexual, was recently allowed to be euthanised after an unsuccessful sex change procedure in 2012, Andy Guy of Australia is luckier.

Cats will play a major role on the creation of HIV vaccine against AIDS, and it has been found that the feline immunodeficiency virus or HIV in cats may unlock the cure for the deadly virus in humans.

A massive 10-metre dinosaur fossil was unearthed by a pipeline inspection crew in Alberta, Canada. The crew was working with a backhoe near the Spirit River when they uncovered a fossilised skeleton of what appeared to be a huge dinosaur.