SCIENCE

The Australian Nuclear Science and technology Organisation uses Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S2 to test the credibility of a radiation detector app

Residents in Canada's southern Alberta have been warned to brace for massive rainfall and subsequent floods between Monday and Wednesday.

While headache remains one of the most common disorders of the nervous system, there is no surefire way to permanently rid of it, with people resorting to medication or expensive treatments.

Natal, the Brazilian host city of this year's 2014 World Cup, has issued a flood alert after it received a whopping amount of water from two days of non-stop rains.

Twin quakes of almost 6-magnitude struck Japan's eastern coast near Fukushima early Monday.

Residents in Perth and the South West are being advised to take necessary precautions as the area could receive as much as 15-25mm of rain by midday today. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Severe Weather warning following a cold front that could bring in strong winds and high tides.

Many people who harbor fear of the dentist carry their phobia into their adult years because of the extreme pain caused by the dentist's drill, which they experienced during childhood visits to the tooth doctor.

New Zealand scientists will be deploying deep-sea monitors to the ocean floor to find out more about global climate change.

Ice-penetrating radar technology inserted aboard Nasa survey flights has discovered frozen forms of ice blocks at the very bottom of the Greenland ice sheet which are as tall as city skyscrapers and as wide as the island of Manhattan.

Big Head, the Loggerhead Turtle, proved over the weekend that it is a likely good replacement for Paul, the Octopus, as the oracle of the World Cup.

A U.S. teenager caught a giant fish in Canada while he was fishing with his father.

As the world awaits for the potential impacts of a looming El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, countries around the Indonesian archipelago have been advised to brace for more devastating Indian Ocean weather events that could bring more and severe drought, bushfires and floods to affected countries, Australia included.

While most of the dangerous gases that had built up in the atmosphere over the years may have come from countries in the Earth's northern hemisphere, it is the countries however in the south that will bear the impact of the planet's global warming and climate change, a report released by ratings agency Standard & Poor's said.

It is Friday, the 13th, today and along with the creepy combination of that day and date mix long associated with horror and macabre events is the threat of a solar flare that could affect GPS and communication signals.

A second baby has died from the contaminated hospital drip scandal that has ripped the United Kingdom. A total of 22 babies are believed to have developed blood poisoning various at neonatal intensive care units across England.

Witnesses reported about their UFO sighting experience that happened on Wednesday, June 4. One witness recounted seeing the bright, disc-like object over Dee Why beach on early Wednesday morning while the other claimed spotting the bright light at the same day and time on the Central Coast.

Model and marine conservationist Hannah Fraser danced with man-eating tiger sharks to show her protest against worldwide killing of the species, and to prove that sharks could not be that "scary".

Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco have created modified white cells with HIV resistance by editing genomes of stem cells which replicates the CCR5 delta 32 mutation found in small number of people in Europe.

Australia on Wednesday lowered its 2014-15 wheat production forecast by one per cent due to the looming El Niño weather phenomenon.

The watercress topped the list of powerhouse fruits and veggies in a new study by U.S. researchers that ranked the fresh produce based on their nutritional value.

A rare phenomenon is set to take place on Friday, June 13. Superstitious people already consider Friday the 13th as an unlucky day but they may become more wary on June 13 because a Full Moon is set to rise.

Students falling in love and having sex with their teachers is quite commonplace. However, a BBC documentary to be shown next week features a male dolphin named Peter falling in love with his human female teacher who was tasked to teach the mammal to speak English.

A new study released by researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has said the release of carbon dioxide emissions by the world's oceans is being heightened up by the continued rise of global warming temperatures.

Paranormal investigator Gavin Davies spotted a cluster of lights over Haverfordwest in Wales last Thursday night, June 5. The UFO sighting had the witness launching an appeal on social networking site Facebook for other witnesses to share their experience or any information on the unidentified cluster of lights spotted over Wales.

U.S.-based nuclear waste management company Kurion Inc announced on Monday it had been chosen by Tokyo Electric Power to treat the contaminated radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

China has literally moved to tearing down and flattening 700 mountains to provide land for its growing population.

Global warming this time has affected even the bodies of the dead from World War II. The foreign minister of the Marshall Islands disclosed over the weekend that rising sea water levels have washed the remains of Japanese World War II soldiers from their graves.

Northern Territory Police appears to have found on Sunday the 62-year-old Australian man who was grabbed by a crocodile while cruising with his family along Kakadu National Park.

A crocodile snatched an Australian man from a boat at the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory on Saturday afternoon.