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.
A hypersonic scramjet is all set to be launched from a site above the Arctic Circle this September. The project, led by University of Queensland is supported by Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and international research team of 13 partners and sponsors.
It is more usual to hear or read from various research materials that climate change can make hurricanes wilder and even make it more violent. However, latest study shows that climate change can actually do the exact opposite: it can certainly calm the hurricanes instead.
Unless the world gets it act together to counter the worsening global climate change, it won't be long before it sees the total wipe out of the oceans' coral reefs.
New Zealand is currently experiencing its warmest winter yet as long-standing winter temperature records since the 1800s have been broken throughout the country especially in the South Islands.
The Marshall Islands, a small island state in the Pacific, cries for help as the islands continued to sink due to rising sea levels. Composed of 29 coral islands and atolls in the middle of Australia and Hawaii, the Marshall Islands are currently just 2 metres above sea level. The islands want help from the New Zealand government as the population will be at risk to increasingly intense droughts and storms.
Australia gearing up for a reality show that’s out of this world. Thousands of Australians have applied for a one-way trip to Mars in a bid to start a new life at the red planet.
Danish scientists are closing in on finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV, based on their current research undergoing clinical trials. The "novel strategy" is designed to allow the immune system to destroy HIV permanently.
China has suspended extending environmental approvals to future projects of the China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec Group) due to their non-compliance to set pollution targets.
China has targeted to launch by yearend 2013 its first unmanned Chang'e-3 moon landing mission. The country's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence said the carrier rocket for the lunar probe has successfully passed pre-launch testing.
The famed sci-fi author Isaac Asimov was not one of the many icons in history who turned out as epic failures for their predictions. In fact, most of his predictions in the past somehow became true, especially for the 2014 World’s Fair. Some of them are even already apparent as of the present moment.
Over 40,000 artefacts were unearthed while the Canadian Museum for Human Rights was being constructed in Winnipeg. Some of those were unveiled on Wednesday by museum officials and archaeologists.
Amid decade long assumptions on whether there is life on Mars, a path-breaking update says that life on Earth might have come after it had reached Mars.
HIV researchers are working round-the-clock searching for an effective treatment and cure against HIV infection. However, some people are just too stubborn and continue risky behaviour even with the global threat of the virus. Know the five lethal associated diseases with AIDS and their treatments currently being researched by medical experts.
Tuberculosis is one of the diseases most highly associated to people affected by poverty or HIV/AIDS. Despite medical advancement, TB remains difficult to treat and eradicate in global scale. Here is a look into the connections between HIV and Tuberculosis -- diseases claiming millions of lives worldwide.
Because of technical glitch on the ABC News Site, many came to believe that Neil Armstrong died on Aug 27, 2013.
Beneath the protection provided by antiretroviral drugs, the virus which causes AIDS remains incurable and drug therapy haven't reached all victims of HIV. There are several frightening truths about HIV/AIDS that modern science watches closely before everything is too late.
About one million cockroaches escaped from a farm in China after the facility was ransacked. The cockroaches were kept to be used in making traditional Chinese medicine. The insects were found to be infesting the nearby cornfields in Dafeng, China and were yet to be contained. The Jiangsu Board of Health has sent five investigators on-site to develop a plan to get rid of the escaped cockroaches. The department will support a large-scale disinfection of the area as soon as possible.
Current nuclear-crisis embattled Japan, along with Ukraine, are set to hurtle into space a satellite that's specifically designed to monitor the amounts of radiation emitted by global nuclear power plants, such as that of the crippled Fukushima of 2011 and Chernobyl of 1986.
German researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology has studied a new factor in global warming which was not previously included in climate change studies. The researchers have discovered that oceans around the world take in more carbon dioxide. When seas take in CO2, they give off a sulphur compound which can block the sun's radiation. Oceans that become more acidic because of fuel-burning emissions can enhance global warming.
Brazil, the world's fourth largest agricultural producer, has sought the help of Australian firm, AgBiTech Pty Ltd, a biological insect control solution firm to address the crop devastation brought by the corn earworms (Helicoverpa armigera).
Clinical dietitian Dr Anna Boltong conducted a research which studied the effects of chemotherapy to patients’ taste function and food enjoyment.
From being a cause of pollution and ailments, Australian scientists are studying ways to convert carbon dioxide into other more useful items such as bricks to build edifices.
