Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is at it again, this time leaking 114 gallons of highly radioactive contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Oct 04, 2013
A recent study claims that a particular compound present in drinking red wine may actually help in killing cancer cells. Resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, can be modified to enter the human body tissues and kill malignant cells.
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Oct 04, 2013
Can there anything be sadder than this recent Twitter cover of NASA? Instead of celebrating its 55th anniversary with a bang, the government shutdown instead turned everything into one sour party.
Christine Lazaro
Oct 04, 2013
Bigfoot is definitely real, according to a group of researchers from the Sasquatch Genome Project who found DNA evidence including photos and videos of the legendary creature. The researchers have in their possession a never-before-seen footage of Bigfoot. The video presented to the public showed a female Bigfoots sleeping in the Kentucky woods. Sasquatch researchers also found hair and blood samples unlike anything that has been seen by the scientific world before.
Reissa Su
Oct 03, 2013
The Space X Falcon 9 had a first-ever rocket launch on Sunday, Sept. 29, in California that gave the commercial spaceflight a huge boost. However, Alan Boyle at NBC News claims that reports started to pour in coming from witnesses in Southern Africa and the islands of Mauritius and Reunion about fuzzy UFO sightings approximately one hour after the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch from the Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9 a.m. PT (noon ET).
Jenalyn Villamarin
Oct 03, 2013
The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was able to capture the 2013 Comet ISON close flyby to planet Mars. The released images captured on Sunday, Sept. 29, show a blurry object at the center with the stars as background while the photos taken on Oct. 1 and 2 are currently getting processed.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Oct 03, 2013
Extinction of koalas is now beginning to unfold as another casualty of the burgeoning global climate change, which has dried up too many trees.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Oct 03, 2013
Churchgoers, beware! The Holy water was reportedly to contain fecal matter. A recent study shows that around 86 percent of Holy water, which is generally used in baptism, may be infected with harmful bacteria.
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Oct 03, 2013
It was a photo contest not meant to show the most vivid, beautiful and eye-turning picture. It was a photo contest meant to show off the most thought-provoking and livid picture that would most perfectly capture the state of Florida's water pollution problem.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Oct 03, 2013
Even animals and insects are not spared from the effects of climate change. Scientists said there is a global increase in the number of insects due to climate change. Some insects are apparently taking advantage of rising temperatures like the giant Asian hornets that have been reportedly killing people in China. Reports also said they killer giant Asian hornets were spotted in the United States as early as July 2012.
Reissa Su
Oct 02, 2013
Sky gazers can now start the preparations for viewing the fast approaching celestial display of the 2013 Comet ISON after making its closest approach to planet Mars on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The “Comet of the Century” is expected to become visible to the naked eye in early Nov. before its closest approach to the Sun on Nov. 28 and planet Earth on Dec. 26.
Oct 02, 2013
You might find it impossible for you and your friends to ever reach the moon for now but did you ever realize there are everyday items that you have that will keep you close to NASA?
Christine Lazaro
Oct 02, 2013
A study by Environment Canada reveals that human activities kill over 270 million birds every year.
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Oct 02, 2013
An exciting new film has just been announced: "Unacceptable Levels" exposes the hidden world of toxic chemicals now inundating society and destroying our health worldwide.
Jamelle Agbuis
Oct 02, 2013
A 10-year-old Mexican boy was killed on Friday by a 4-metre crocodile in the state of Oaxaca. The boy was playing with his older brother, aged 13, near a swollen river when the reptile just grabbed the child's heat and dragged him for several metres before releasing the child.
Vittorio Hernandez
Oct 02, 2013
New Zealand introduces Potato Tom while the UK introduces TomTato.
Athena Yenko
Oct 01, 2013
Women who had experienced early menopausal but still wish to have babies may now have the option to undergo a cutting-edge fertility treatment called in vitro activation (IVA). The seemingly non-fertilizing ovaries will be removed through an experimental surgery, get these treated in a laboratory and then implanted back into the woman's body.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Oct 01, 2013
NASA is going to make history by launching the first 3D printer into space in 2014
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Oct 01, 2013
NASA is getting ready to launch off to space a 3D printer by next year. It is a toaster sized tool that will help lessen the requirement for astronauts to load up every supply or spare part they need.
Christine Lazaro
Sep 30, 2013
Medical experts and researchers are still nowhere close on producing an effective cure or vaccine against HIV after 30 years of its discovery. HIV patients have been saved from death sentence by antiretroviral drug treatment which made it a chronic disease. So what reasons why medical science remains puzzled on the exact, effective and economic cure against the deadly virus?
Ryan Inoyori
Sep 30, 2013
Three UFOs were captured last September 18, Wednesday, over Wittenberge, Germany with the use of a camera’s zoom and night vision features. UFOFilesTV shared the video online with the person who videotaped the UFO sighting remaining anonymous.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Sep 30, 2013
The latest space mission of Canada was inaugurated by the successful launch of CASSIOPE, a space satellite weighing 481 kg.
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Sep 30, 2013
Russian researchers believe that the common mushroom can "cure" the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV. This mushroom grown on birch and other hardwood trees point to an elusive idea of curing HIV. Do they have any basis for it?
Ryan Inoyori
Sep 27, 2013
A guy in China recently went through an odd experience of having a forehead nose after having severely damaged his original nose in a car accident. This is not the first time that such a bizarre plastic surgery procedure was carried out.
Sep 27, 2013
U.S. President Barack Obama is under increasing pressure from Americans for the White House to rejects any deals with Canada that would pave the way for the operation of the Keystone XL pipeline project by TransCanada, even if Ottawa is promising to be tougher on carbon emissions.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 27, 2013
China is planning to build as much as to 40 massive projects to convert coal to synthetic natural gas (SNG) as it zealously works to curb its coal pollution emissions. But a group of researchers had strongly warned it best to all together shelve the project because the SNG plants will greatly increase China's greenhouse emissions, releasing yet another environmental disaster.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Sep 26, 2013
After a major earthquake in the coastal town of Gwadar in Pakistan that killed hundreds of people, residents were again shocked to find a new island rising from the sea just more than 1 kilometre from the shore.
Reissa Su
Sep 26, 2013
The European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft is currently preparing to capture and further observe the 2013 Comet ISON while making its closest flyby to planet Mars on Tuesday, October 1. Space.com reports that Comet ISON will pass by the Red Planet at 6.5 million miles (10.4 million kilometers) so the spacecraft that started the observation campaign on September 21 must have a superior view.
Sep 25, 2013
David Suzuki gave his thoughts about Tony Abbott's firing of Tim Flannery as Flannery launches new Climate Council.
Athena Yenko
Sep 25, 2013
With the recent discovery of the NASA Curiosity Rover that there is no methane gas on Mars’ surface, can this lead to the end of the all-time hit discussion that there is extraterrestrial life in the planet?
Christine Lazaro
Sep 25, 2013