SCIENCE

In what could be considered an irony, Juma, a tiger at the Queensland zoo bit the hand of its handler on Tuesday, which is International Tiger Day.

Dogs exhibit streaks of jealousy when their owners showered more affection or attention to another dog or human, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

On Saturday, July 26, puzzled North York witnesses took to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube their UFO sighting experience. Mysterious bright lights were spotted flashing over the Yonge St. and Sheppard Ave. neighborhood in Toronto, Canada.

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Health officials in New Zealand have pleaded for action from the Ministry of Health to ensure that there is no epidemic of skin cancer. According to experts, thousands could be affected with non-melanoma skin cancers.

The north Toronto city on Saturday night had a UFO experience with the social media abuzz with speculations by people spotting strange, flashing lights over the city, reported Guardian LV. North York residents tweeted that they saw colourful lights moving in sky at Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue. The Toronto Police also confirmed having got calls from the public informing of pink, green and white lights in a single diagonal line.

The United Kingdom is giving green and renewable energy a bigger push by converting three former coal mining land into solar farms in the East Midlands.

The 2014 Delta Aquarids meteor shower, which is set to peak on July 28-29, promises a good viewing experience for the interested observers due to the absence of a bright Moon in the night sky. As the Delta Aquarids peak, the Perseid meteor shower begins after the NASA cameras in New Mexico spotted a couple of Perseid fireballs on Sunday, July 27, after Earth entered the stream of debris that the Comet Swift-Tuttle left behind.

Russian Foton-M4, launched on July 19, suddenly lost contact with a satellite that was carrying a pack of geckos and a webcam a week after its launch.

Timber Wolf, a male koala, being considered Australia's luckiest koala, was hit by a car on the Bruce Highway on July 25 and then hung on to the car grille for a span of 80 kilometres and survived.

The largest living animal that walks the earth has also overtaken the dogs in the animal kingdom when it comes to olfactory capabilities. Elephants have been found to have 10,000 genes devoted to recognising odour, which is the largest ever to be discovered in the animal kingdom. That amount of genes that they posses with regard to smell is twice as that of dogs and five times more than that of humans.

A new tablet Truvada, made by Pharmaceutical Company Gilead Sciences, can prevent transmission of HIV virus, according to a study published in Lancet, a medical journal. The participants in 2014’s International AIDS Conference rejoiced and welcomed the new pill that is said to prevent transmission of HIV Virus.

American senior citizens are found to be suffering lesser strokes, irrespective of their sex or race, reveals a study conducted by Dr. Josef Coresh from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore.

A 13-year-old sixth-grade student, Lauren Arrington, who rose to fame with her science fair project about the invasive potential of lion fish, has been accused of stealing the Lionfish Research by former ecology grad student Zack Jud.

Condoms are the only known preventive measures against sexually transmitted infections. While young adults are aware of what condoms are, they are totally oblivious to female condoms which is one of the only two barrier protective methods, a new study by two UT Arlington researchers have found

Birds possess a high intellectual dexterity than known before. The study aimed at discovering the casual cognition of the bird with the use of a water displacement paradigm. Lead author Logan said that the study discovered and demonstrated the crows' ability to differentiate between varying volumes of water, a test that 7 to 10 year olds passed successfully. She said, "We provide the strongest evidence so far that the birds attend to cause-and-effect relationships by choosing options that ...

Salicylic acid, modified into acetylsalicylic acid, and used as Aspirin can cure breast cancer, reveals a study conducted by Dr. Michelle Holmes from Harvard University.

Opinions often differ when it comes to surveys, not to mention the high cost and effort of conducting one. That is, scientists are beginning to consider other ways to measure occurrences such as illicit drug abuse.

People who get less than six hours’ sleep in the night are at a higher risk of suffering from a stroke, developing type 2 diabetes and high BP, say researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Charlotte Ponce had lost her ear and other parts of her face when she was a baby. Her birth parents' pet raccoon bit her right ear off, her nose and parts of her mouth when she was just three months old. But a plastic surgeon at Beaumont Children's Hospital, Dr. Kongkrit Chaiyasate whom Charlotte's adopted mother Sharon says has been a godsend, will conduct a surgery to transplant the ear that has been growing under her skin on her right arm to her right ear.

At least 32,000 people in Taiwan were left without power supply after typhoon Matmo pummeled the east Asian country. Matmo has likewise made landfall in China, the country's second weather disturbance within a week.

Australia and the United States may have been connected long ago. A new study from the University of Tasmania researchers analysed old sedimentary rocks on the island and those from the American states of Idaho, Montana and some parts of British Columbia.

Opioid abuse more or less results in more than half a million years of life lost per year, a report by PsychCentral said.

Hospitals in Auckland had to postpone elective surgeries to meet the growing needs of beds in hospitals as people taking to bed with severe flu or influenza is on the rise.

British parents, in hundreds, are traveling to the U.S. for In Vitro Fertilization treatment to select a baby girl. Eight in ten British couple want a baby girl through IVF. Since sex selection is banned in the United Kingdom, more and more British parents are traveling to America to have IVF treatment in order to select the gender of their unborn baby.

Peter Lynagh from Melbourne gave up sex for one whole year to raise £50,000 for charity. Lynagh has donated the entire money to Australian charity, Free to Shine, an organisation which focuses on educating and saving young Cambodian girls from the sex trade.

A five-minute session of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps reduce pain by at least 60 per cent, said scientists at the University of Reading. Studies reveal that positive thinking can relieve an individual of pain by changing the way it is "experienced."

Antiviral VivaGel in Ansell condoms, which is capable of inactivating 99.9 per cent of HIV virus, will be available in the Australian market within few months. The special technology has been designed by Australian biotechnology firm Starpharma.

HIV researchers hope for an effective and functional cure may have a little setback called "long-term remission" instead of full annihilation of the virus. The status means that someone can still have detectable levels of the virus but not active enough to require further treatment.