SCIENCE

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.

Australia's newly rebadged Climate Council is naming this year as the hottest calendar year documented since record keeping began. 2013 is set to have the highest temperatures, passing by far 2005's warm climate. The elevated temperature is cause for concern as local governments are concerned with spontaneous bush fires may erupt should this budding heat wave continue. This is one hot streak that the public should be talking about.

The Lake Natron mystery started making buzz online when photographer Nick Brandy shared the captures of animals that appeared as corpses after having allegedly crashed on the form of water in Tanzania.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Extinction of koalas is now beginning to unfold as another casualty of the burgeoning global climate change, which has dried up too many trees.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

A study by Environment Canada reveals that human activities kill over 270 million birds every year.