Luisa Crisostomo

By 2013, a new super painkiller containing highly addictive pure hydrocodone may be on the market.

The La Niña in 2011 (reported to be one of the strongest to occur in recent years) was a major factor in several natural disasters that occurred all around the globe.

Google has been awarded the US patent for driverless cars or for technology related to transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode.

Technological gadgets like mobile phones and computers are not to blame for sleep decline, according to a study published in The Medical Journal of Australia.

Using MRI brain scans, researchers in Britain discovered that cab drivers had increased the grey matter in their posterior hippocampus after over three years of intensive training to memorize London's numerous street routes.

Children subjected to physical abuse or exposed to domestic violence have been found to have similar brain patterns as soldiers fighting in dangerous combat situations.

A molecular virologist at Erasmus University in the Netherlands has engineered a new H5N1 bird flu virus so lethal that it would kill 59 percent of those infected.

The popularity of the Internet and gaming has led children and adults alike to exhibit the same behaviors as those addicted to drugs, alcohol, or other substances.

The end of the job-for-life tradition in Japan has led the new generation to search for what they really want to do and for some, this has led them back to farming and a life their grandparents once had.

Jacob French began his long trek from Perth (with an ultimate goal of reaching Sydney) to raise $50,000 for the Starlight Foundation, a charitable organization which helps children with serious or life-threatening illnesses.

As more and more users divulge personal information on the Internet, the lines between the real world and cyberspace start to blur.

Professor Sean Davison, who fulfilled his mother's wish for voluntary euthanasia, was recently sentenced to five months home detention.

The brain of Albert Einstein, widely regarded as the father of modern physics, is currently featured in an exhibit at the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

American balloonist and former hang-glider pilot Kent Couch and Iraqi pilot Captain Fareed Abdul-Zahra al-Saadi have planned to be airborne using helium-filled party balloons and lawn chairs in March 2012. As to how long will they keep themselves suspended in mid-air is the big question and thrill for the two.

Nisio Gomes, a 59-year-old Indian chief and shaman of the Guarani Kaiowa tribe, was murdered by a group of heavily armed men in front of his community last Friday.

It seems that the Australian government will most likely win the legal battle filed against it by Philip Morris as experts predict they have the legal edge because intellectual property rights agreements give governments the right to pass laws to protect public health, reports said.

Climate scientists are studying the underlying causes of previous mass extinction events to gain a better understanding of what may happen as greenhouse gas emissions raise global temperatures.

Felicity Aston, a 33-year old British adventurer, is attempting to become the first woman to do a successful solo crossing of Antarctica.

Oceana recently called on the 48 fishing member countries of the ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) to protect endangered sharks, tuna and swordfish.

As a cost-cutting measure, New York-based Citigroup Inc. recently revealed plans to lay off some 3000 or more employees from their global workforce.

Eighteen preschool children, their teacher and their bus driver were killed in the Chinese province of Gansu when the school bus they were riding on had a head-on collision with a truck at 9:40 a.m. on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) proposed that Britain's cheapest meal was none other than the toast sandwich.

Despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo to receive medical treatment abroad, the Philippine government prevented her from leaving NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) in Manila.

If energy-efficiency policies, price reforms, new emissions-free infrastructures and increased renewable energy subsidies aren't firmly in place by 2017 then it might become too late to turn back the tide against the effects of climate change, according to the recently released World Energy Outlook by the IEA (International Energy Agency).

The life of eight-month-old Iyaad Syed has been saved by donor liver cells implanted through a technique that was the first of its kind in the world, said his medical team.

The near-meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March and the subsequent release of radioactive materials in Japan has led researchers to study its lingering impact on farming.

The beautiful African antelope known as Beatragus hunteri or hirola is now on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of critically endangered species.

Pompeii, widely known as the ancient Roman city that was devastated by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption hundreds of years ago, is now on the verge of collapse.