Climate change and droughts have gone hand in hand for quite some time now, as climate change causes more droughts that affect the land significantly. But what most people may not know is that drought is actually exacerbating climate change.
NASA will try to find out if the Red Planet ever had life and what made it “hostile” for life with two new missions, one that will roam the surface and another that will orbit the planet and dip briefly into its upper atmosphere.
Man will receive further information about Mars once NASA’s rover Curiosity reaches the so-called red planet in August next year, by which time Australia will celebrate a new milestone in Astronomy.
Australian children suffering from systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (sJIA) now have access to Actemra, a biologic treatment recently approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
To some, global warming is still a myth - something that has been concocted to scare people into reducing their emissions. However for scientists, global warming is true, and warns that if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced or stopped, global warming's 2 degree-Celsius increase will be inevitable.
It was the eve of the deer hunting season in Michigan when Deputy Ryan Swartz responded to a call that a car had hit a deer.
From robot snakes to breathable mattresses designed after honeycombs, more innovative designs are using the art and science of biomimicry. The field of biomimicry has already given consumers hundreds of products and devices that are based on nature.
China arches its enormous muscles and get ready to join the big nations. China sent a person to space in 2003, and finished its first spacewalk in the year 2008.
A study published by Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology claims that the very first tooth most likely belong to an ancient fish. Thevery first pearly whites might have been a set of very sharp scales on a fish's face.
Magnetic fields play an important role in the formation of dense molecular clouds which sets the stage for the birth of stars and planetary systems like our own.
After saying goodbye to the space shuttle program, NASA is also ditching its big, bulky space suits for something slimmer.
The Gamburtsev Mountains have long baffled geologists. Discovered by a Soviet geophysicist of the same name in 1958, the year of the first International Polar Year exploration, their origins have been a matter of obscurity in the geological field.
Here is a list of just a few of the animals under threat or on the verge of extinction, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and the WWF.
An event scientists call the Great Dying, 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Era, killed off more than three-quarters of life forms on Earth.
A recent study has found that zircons, considered as the Earth’s “time capsules” being one of the oldest bits of minerals, are not as pure as geologists thought them to be and that research data drawn from them could be doubtful.
Rabbits are, arguably, one of the cutest, most harmless animals in the world. That is why people were shocked when they saw splashed across news agencies a case of a disease known as rabbit fever.
A research technician and mission planner for the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University offered an explanation for such lines. Jonathon Hill has said that they are spy satellite calibration targets and are not surprising given that China is known to operate spy satellites and the United States have also operated a number of spy satellites themselves.
Do you get up to do something, walk into another room and then don't remember what you were going to do? Don't worry you're not going senile yet because it's actually the door's fault.
Heart attacks run rampant across the world. In fact, according to the Women's Heart Foundation, 1.5 million heart attacks occur in the United States yearly with one-third of the figure leading to deaths. But what people don't know is that deaths from a heart attack maybe caused by the heart itself.
Authorities counted six people killed by tornadoes that struck Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina on Wednesday.
Researchers from Sydney University reported on Thursday that they have discovered the submerged islands some 1600 kilometres from the western coastline of Australia, further cementing assertions that the country should count Gondwana as its mother continent.
It is a common fact that people love looking at beautiful sceneries. Whether it's the simple sight of trees or the calming landscape of plants, people adore a green environment. Not only adore, but according to a new survey, people love greenery so much that they are even willing to pay more for a greener place to live in.
The stretch of Gamburtsev mountain ranges have long amazed scientists who single out the East Antarctica icy rock formations for their apparent youthfulness that surprisingly defied million-years of natural onslaught by elements.
Maintenance workers have found a live carpet shark inside the seawater intake tank of the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant in Binningup, according to Water Corporation, operator of the plant.
Three new flight engineers who will compose Expedition 30 arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday for a four-month stay on the orbiting complex. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, were delivered by Soyuz TMA-22 which blasted off from Kazakhstan on Monday.
The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, known as “Alps under the ice, are the least understood tectonic feature on Earth, because they are completely hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. But scientists have finally discovered how the mountains, which are buried three km below the East Antartic Ice Sheet, were formed 250 million years ago.
China’s unmanned Shenzhou 8 which executed the nation’s first in-space docking has departed from the prototype space lab module Tiangong and is expected to return to Earth today.
About 6,000 to 8,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was actually a thriving ecosystem with rivers and abundant rainfall. Around 4,500 year ago, the region turned into the arid wasteland of today. Now a Dutch artist wants to turn this vast desert into a fertile oasis by conjuring ice from thin air.
The Leonids are known to be a bright annual meteor shower with visible meteorites that can be seen by the naked eye. Although this year would be less visible than previous years because of the moon being in it's third quarter and other factors such as light pollution. The shower itself lasts for weeks but its peak is tonight and tomorrow Nov. 18 from midnight until 3 a.m. If you can't get yourself to stay awake you could get to see a glimpse of the shower before moonrise if you are lucky.
The 27-member countries of the European Union will start using millimeter-wave scanners after the EU announced the ban on the use of X-ray body scanners in all European airports due to health and safety reasons.
