SCIENCE

Anyone who's ever flown knows the drill before take-off. Seatbelts on and turn off all electronic devices. However according to a study conducted by U.S.A Today more people are refusing to turn off their electronic devices even during take-off, flight and landing. What are the effects of these electronic devices to a plane? Will they really cause a plane to drop out of the sky?

Great news for coffee lovers, research suggests that your daily dose of caffeine could help reduce the risk of developing endometrial cancer by as much as 25 percent.

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has granted Natcore a license to develop its patented black silicon technology. Natcore expects to deliver the first commercial black silicon product in 2012.

A brainless amoeboid yellow slime could be the key to figuring out human intelligence and help Japanese researchers build future bio-computers.

Food allergies can strike anyone, at any age, and anywhere when it is triggered. And since it can be fatal, properly identifying if a person has one is critical. However, new findings are stirring up clinicians as diagnosing people through some basic tests alone aren’t enough to identify these food allergies.

Religion and medicine, for some, somehow do not mix. Viewing it only as a matter of faith, some shrug off spiritual belief aside and focus on what is concrete. But having a religion and a belief in God offers more than just hope and a sense of faith, it brings with it, unexpectedly, health benefits.

The “alien-esque” looking metallic ball that fell from the sky and was discovered mid-November in a remote grassland in Namibia is not so mysterious after all.

A new chapter in ocean exploration will soon begin with the use of futuristic robots, the sensorbots, which are equipped with biogeochemical sensors.

2011 was a memorable year as far as space exploration is concerned, but 2012 also promises to be as exciting. Even with the end of NASA’s space shuttle program, there are other space projects that will be highly anticipated by space enthusiasts.

Feeling a little bloated from your Christmas dinner? Then you should eat more sugary sweets to battle those overeating pangs.

Two spacecrafts are set to enter orbit around Earth’s moon over the New Year’s weekend, in the latest lunar mission to measure the uneven gravity field and determine what lies beneath the moon’ core.

Researchers said that the public, using close-up photographs of the moon from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, should be allowed to participate in the search for alien life in the moon.

Many beaches in Sydney will remain closed until Wednesday as waves of up to four meters created by ex-tropical cyclone Fina hit the coast.

Children's absenteeism may be far more problematic than missing out on class as new research finds it may be linked to their mental health.

The rapid pace of exoplanet discoveries suggests that the first Earth twin will be found relatively soon, according to researchers, adding that the first true “alien Earth” could be found in 2012.

Pluto’s surface could contain complex hydrocarbon and nitrile molecules which may be responsible for giving the planet its ruddy color, according to the findings of Hubble Space Telescope’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph.

Research findings show that a second temporary moon is the norm in our planet, noting that what looked like a spent rocket stage which was seen orbiting the Earth in 2006 was in fact asteroid 2006 RH120, a natural satellite like the moon.

A “space ball” measuring 35 centimeters (14 inches) in diameter and weighing six kilograms (13 pounds) has been discovered mid-November in a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting authorities to contact NASA and European Space Agency.

A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana has created a new material called "solar paint" which could pave the way for cheaper solar cell technology.

Here's another amazing video of the comet Lovejoy from the International Space Station. The images were captured by NASA astronaut Daniel Burbank, who is currently commander of the International Space Station.

Could you soon learn new skills while you sleep? According to American scientists people can use dreaming as a tool to learn.

CERN physicists made its first new particle discovery at the Large Hadron Collider, known as Chi_b (3P), that will help scientists better understand the forces that hold matter together.

Want to know which moons and planets have the highest probability of hosting extra-terrestrial life?

The decimated number of the rare white kiwi in New Zealand got much-needed boost this week as a second chick was reportedly hatched in the country's wildlife sanctuary, officials of the centre revealed on Friday.

The Perth Magistrates Court fined Barrick Gold on Thursday $140,000 for the death of miner Daniel Williams in August 2009. Mr Williams fell into an ore chute at the underground mine of Barrick's Kanowna Belle gold mine near Kalgoorlie.

Fans of the popular Japanese animated series, Gundam will be happy to note that there will soon be a real life 13 foot tall robot complete with a cockpit.

Farmers in 10 of Murray-Darling Basin's 23 communities would allow the flooding of their lands' easement covering more than 1 million hectares.

Heavy rains and flooding since Tuesday have killed 23 people in Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam prompting President Jakaya Kikwete to call on residents in affected valleys and lowland areas to evacuate.

A former whaling captain warned that Japan's annual whale hunt in Antarctica could hurt Australia's $300-million-a-year whale-watch industry.