SCIENCE

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.

New antiretroviral drug has been found to cut risk of drug addicts from contracting HIV by nearly 50 per cent according to a new study. The tenofovir pills taken by drug-injecting addicts were less likely to become infected of HIV by half than those who did not.

An outdoor party for a 30-year-old man on Saturday turned into a tragedy when a crocodile attacked and ate one of his guest, a 24-year-old man from Darwin while they swimming across the muddy river.

A massive sinkhole in rural Louisiana has opened up and continued to expand at a rapid rate which caused it to devour a clump of trees and land. The video of the Louisiana sinkhole was captured on video and posted on Youtube by the Assumption Parish Police Jury.

Baby Rahul, a 3-month-old baby in India, who burst into flames, is undergoing treatment to have suffered from a suspected case of spontaneous human combustion or SHC according to expert Indian doctors.

HIV research continues to push for a cure or a vaccine to prevent uncontrollable repercussions of the deadliest epidemic in the world. Early treatment is recommended to help slow down the disease and reduce chances of transmitting to others. However, some groups do not prefer medical intervention to get freedom from the virus.

Hong Kong may not be directly affected by severe tropical storm Trami, which is currently battering China, but it surely still made its presence felt in the country. Trami's coverage was so wide that it trapped pollutants in Hong Kong's air to reach "very high" levels, prompting the government to issue health warnings.

A dog from New Zealand had saved a cat through a one of a kind dog-cat blood transfusion

The uses of the popular iPad come in a huge assortment whether it is for emailing, gaming and a lot more. But did anyone ever imagine using it to remove a tumor from a human liver?