SCIENCE

Our blue planet, Earth smiled from far away distance of Saturn and posed to the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image captured Saturn's rings and Earth with its moon in the same frame.

Scientists have discovered a fossilized tooth of the biggest and oldest aquatic reptile in Australia in Gippsland.

One of the highlights of a tour of New Zealand's Parliament building in Wellington, more popularly called the Beehive, is a short video clip on the building being earthquake-proof.

Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969 and nearly 600 million television viewers watched the historical event live across the world, including a five-year-old Jeff Bezos, now the CEO of Amazon. A day before the 44th anniversary, Bezos disclosed that the two rocket engines that his team had found from the depths of the Atlantic are from Apollo 11.

Medical researchers have found a new way fight HIV/AIDS by using bone marrow treatment and cell engineering. The so-called Berlin patient opened a new hope towards possible cure and end the war against a worldwide epidemic.

A 12-year old boy with HIV and leukaemia died after a historic cell transplant at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital aimed to get the same result of three men cured of HIV and blood cancers.

Two separate men "cured" from HIV after a surprising side-effect from cancer treatments and encouraged researchers and medical experts to look into possible potential method as HIV/AIDS treatment.

A strange horned dinosaur from the Cretaceous period was discovered in Utah that is believed to have evolved in North America. Meanwhile in Florida, a tooth of the Tyrannosaurus rex was found in a tail of a plant-eating dinosaur

Sun observers will be treated to some spectacular solar effects in the coming days as waves of particles from an enormous coronal mass ejection (CME) would pass Earth within three days. The solar phenomenon is called a geomagnetic storm, which is a normal event and would not directly harm humans.

Research scientist and sex expert Debby Herbenick is working on a new project, “What do you like about your Vulva and Vagina?”

Scientists rejoiced at the phenomenal discovery of fossils that are possibly millions of years old in the northern part of Brisbane. The scientific discovery at a work site was hailed as the world's first to include a rare collection of 50-million-year-old fossils, including crocodiles, fish, frogs and plants.

A survey from The Australian Academy of Science found that Aussies did not know if humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs

GPS (global positioning systems) signals messed up during storms are indeed tricky and risky for drivers and pilots. But undependable they may be during weather disturbances, this very same haywire activity could prove useful to NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Scientists from both institutions have discovered that the wind speeds and wind strength of tropical cyclone storms can actually be predicted by just how messed up the actual GPS satellite signals are.

Google may be to blame for the young Australians' lack of basic scientific knowledge. Today's Generation Y depends on the popular search engine rather than own brains. Experts say this reliance on the Internet is a factor in the lack of scientific knowledge.

At the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology yearly conference last week, fertility experts were divided if there is a global sperm crisis looming amid an observation of declining sperm count in the past 10 years.

The photo of a carcass that looked like an alien became viral in the Internet. The picture, taken by a 17-year-old son of a national park ranger in South Africa, showed a thin corpse with gnarled teeth and shrunken head.

Scientist and medical researchers are moving forward in the never-ending battle against HIV. Studies not only present new discoveries but also saved lives treating AIDS and revealing secrets how to use the virus to treat other diseases.

Italian scientists found a way to harness gene therapy vectors from HIV to cure two severe and rare genetic diseases - metachromatic leukodystrophy and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.

Today marks the start of the newest addition to become one of Japan’s popular skin treatment, the Snail Slime Facial treatment

Eight more cities in China want to limit the purchases of private cars in order to fight and manage the growing double whammy air pollution as well as traffic congestion menace in the country. The eight include Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin and Wuhan.

Viagra could help improve the survival and health of unborn babies. The world's first clinical trial in Australia and New Zealand are underway to test if the male virility drug can save the lives of the unborn.

Fukushima's highly radioactive groundwater could already be spreading out to the Pacific Ocean, Japan's nuclear watchdog, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said on Wednesday.

Better understanding of the sexual attraction between the male and female stingray could possibly be tapped to help prevent shark attacks on people, a University of Western Australia study said.

According to a Calgary study, more than 50% of babies have flattened spots on the back of their heads by the time they are two months. This is attributed to sleeping on the back of the head, a step taken to reduce sudden infant death syndrome.

Travel plans of thousands of passengers were disrupted for several days after four more U.S. air carriers canceled at least 10 flights from Mexico City as the country's Popocatepetl Volcano continued its activity.

Some areas of Australia's cities will be up to 3.7 degrees hotter by 2050 due to the growth of urbanisation according to new research data Australia will experience the "urban heat island effect" in which temperatures will rise in built-up areas with more asphalt and concrete. Researchers from the University of NSW say the rising temperatures will enhance the effects of climate change.

Wildfires have emerged in Northern and Southern Nevada due to the continuous heat wave engulfing the Western United States

An international study has confirmed the all too obvious - that the air pollution wrought by the excessive coal burning in China's north has affected the life expectancy of the people there, reducing it by as much as five years.

Google decided to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident in a fun way with the creation of an interactive Google Doodle. The black-and-white Google Doodle video game allows the Internet users to aid an alien search for the missing parts of his spaceship.