SCIENCE

Three astronauts who will join the International Space Station crew were launched into orbit at 0415 GMT Momday morning from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and are expected to arrive at the orbiting outpost Wednesday.

Residents in Thailand's Don Mueang district have defied the orders of authorities when they destroyed flood barriers made of sand bags to create a way for boats and access the flooded 20 housing estates.

Vitamin C is popularly known for boosting the immune system as well as helping people heal from wounds and keeping the gums healthy. But the vitamin might be good for the heart as well.

Has the elusive Ogopogo, the Canadian version of Scotland's famous Loch Ness Monster, finally been caught on video?

Pollution has always been a part of man's life what with even the smallest of choices made. Now, pollution is a head ache that the world faces, and to some degree, is a neglected problem because of the changes associated to reducing it.There are a lot of negative effects that come with pollution, and according to a new study led by a group of researchers from the University of Maryland, there is another reason why pollution should be reduced.

One moment they're there and the next, they're completely gone. That's what researchers have discovered in some species of deep ocean squid and octopus that can switch from becoming transparent to becoming deep red to blend into their environment.

Tumors have always been feared for they are often linked with cancer. With tumors disturbing the body's cell division, it's about time that modern medicine has found a way to stop the troublemaker without invasive surgery but with a drug.

Amid continued debate over Australia's carbon tax, the country's greenhouse gas emission rose by 3.8 per cent in October, according to the Emissions Insights report of RepuTex carbon analytics for the last month.

Breast cancer is a battle that some of the women face every day. Full of stress, fatigue, and other mixed emotions, a fight with the disease is taxing. Unfortunately, even if the battle has been won, for some, the way may not be over as cancer is known to reoccur.

In the near-future, delivery trucks will land on soccer fields to deliver goods and services to hard-to-reach places.

Experts have allayed the fears of many believers that a gigantic “killer solar flare” could destroy Earth in 2012, when the solar activity ramps up its standard 11-year cycle, noting that the sun does not have enough energy to send a killer flare 93 million miles to destroy Earth.

A global climate change affecting Earth for about 150,000 years could have happened 56 million years ago due to the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate that was frozen under the seafloor.

Hospitals in Australia now have lower superbug infection rates due to the National Hand Hygiene program that encourages health workers to wash their hands before and after interacting with patients.

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust’s Sanger Institute have now found the weak spot of malaria and are optimistic at the possibility of developing an efficient and effective vaccine against the dreaded disease.

Researchers from the RMIT University have created the first ever ‘clean and green’ truck in Australia. The revolutionary truck is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and is bound to be a promising addition to the environmental efforts for finding sustainable technologies. The researchers were able to demonstrate that it is possible for transportation to be made clean, environment friendly and quiet.

The solar system may have had five giant planets instead of four but ejected one, thus sparing the Earth.

Sixty nine young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation were recently uncovered by NASA’s Hubble Telescope.

Today’s date is written as 11/11/11 numerically, and many believers have put meanings to these numerical phenomenon.

Each of us is inherently an "animal rights person" to some degree, whether we realize it or not. Take the recent case of the Charleston, West Virginia, Daily Mail blogger who wrote about having a mouse in her house.

Thai irrigation officials said flood waters in Bangkok will be gone in 11 days as it continues to drain into the sea at a rate of 400 million cubic metres per day.

The brain controls most of the chemical processes in the body such as blood pressure, emotions, fight or flight reactions. A group of researchers from the Weizmann Institute, led by Dr. Gil Levkowitz, looked into the structure and the mechanism of the brain by which biochemical commands are transferred from the brain cells into the bloodstream and to other parts of the body. With this, the 'hormone of love' was discovered to have a crucial role in directing this process.

Breast cancer is one of the major concerns of women all over the world with it afflicting almost anyone. In fact, according to the National Cancer Institute, 230,480 women are estimated to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, with 39,520 of them dying from the disease.

An animal conservation group has declared the black rhinoceros as extinct and warned that two other subspecies of the animal may also be lost forever due to poaching.

The International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo paraded the latest in robotic advancement with nearly 300 companies taking part.

Russian space officials are still hopeful that the Phobos-Grunt mission could still reach the Martian moon Phobos, even as it said that if the spacecraft can no longer be salvaged, it could come crashing back to earth in two weeks.

A proposed mission, called the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is in the works that would unveil the dark heart of a neutron star. NICER was selected by the NASA for study as a potential Explorer Mission of Opportunity in September this year and thus will receive $250,000 to conduct an 11-month implementation concept study.

The facts are these: the Earth's magnetic field is produced by the planet's spinning solid core that generates the magnetic field, the moon is too small and cold to have that magnetic field generating core. So how did magnetized rocks appear on the surface of the moon if it doesn't have a global magnetic field?

In vitro fertilization treatment has increased by 50 percent among women in Australia and New Zealand, but only a few of the older women are able to deliver a baby.

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.