Researchers from the Australian National University have discovered the reason why Australia keeps recording droughts, while Antarctica remains colder. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, found that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were strengthening the winds in the Southern Ocean which usually bring rain to Southern Australia. However, the carbon dioxide has pushed the winds closer to Antarctica.
The possibility of a magnitude 9 earthquake happening in the Pacific Ocean will be studied as GNS Science will begin placing seismometers or quake warning devices on New Zealand's most threatening faults.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released videos of their astronauts training underwater for their upcoming asteroid mission in Houston. On Friday, May 9, astronauts Stan Love and Steven Bowen can be seen in the videos testing the new suit and numerous tools in an underwater asteroid drilling practice at the space agency’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at the Johnson Space Centre.
Monoamniotic twins or often referred to as "Mono Mono" are identical twins who share both a placenta and an amniotic sac, but have separate umbilical cords.
After magnitude 5.8 earthquake has cracked some of its granite and marble stones in August 2011, the Washington Monument will reopen anew to the public.
Saudi Arabia has recently registered three new cases and three new deaths from the potentially fatal Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection.
A remote-controlled research submarine that costs a whopping $8 million has gone missing off the coast of New Zealand.
On Friday, May 9, 2014, Ohio woman Sarah Thistlethwaite gave birth to identical twins. She delivered rare “mono mono” twins just two days before Mother’s Day who are doing well. Could it be more beautiful?
Transport operators of planes, trains and passenger ships in Canada have been ordered to guarantee the safety of the clean water they offer to their passengers by making sure they adhere to the latest industry or scientific standards.
A viral video of dead mermaid making the rounds of social networking sites is likely another hoax story on the Internet that netizens would still be interested in despite all signs the carcass is an art work only.
Fourteen new species of “dancing frogs” have been discovered in India. Scientists fear that the species found in the south Indian jungle-mountains may become extinct soon.
In what could be a historical milestone related to the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown in March 2011, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) has been slapped with a lawsuit by no other than a worker who used to work in the crippled facility.
According to researchers, the Bow City crater – the ancient ring-shaped structure situated in southern Alberta in Canada was likely to have been formed after a meteorite hit the Earth.
Not only will climate change affect the temperaments of weather patterns, it elevates sea levels and hampers crop production, the rising levels of carbon dioxide are also bound to affect the nutritional value and content of basic foods.
East Antarctica, largely receiving small attention before, has now become the focus of a study where if it succumbs to global warming and melts could push sea levels to rise by 10-13 feet high, enough to drown coastal cities from Tokyo to Mumbai to New York.
A powerful earthquake that measured 6.4 magnitude hit Mexico on Thursday. It was so strong that it sent office workers scrambling outside of their buildings and destroyed a bridge in the south.
Colin Pillinger, the British planetary scientist who was best known for the Beagle 2 Mars mission in 2003, passed away at 70.
An unidentified flying object has reportedly attacked a Taliban camp.
While the big bang theory mentioned about the sun bursting into pieces with one enormous thud, NASA's recent satellite video of the huge explosion on the sun's surface revealed that the sun is just dancing and twisting as it should be. The amazing video was recorded using the state-of-the-art instruments aboard the NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Recently, "WATERisLife" foundation, and researchers from Carnegie Mellon at the University of Virginia invented the first ever water filtration system that comes in the form of a book, called the "Drinkable Book." The "Book" aims to solve the problem of contaminated drinking water that causes diseases in impoverished areas around the globe.
Experts from the Bureau of Meteorology has raised the El Niño-Southern Oscillation tracker to heightened alert level indicating there is 70 percent probability of El Niño occurrence starting by early July.
Australia's weather bureau has issued an alert for a "strong" El Niño in July. Climate researchers have been seeing the start of what is described as the "most powerful El Niño" event since 1997 and 1998. What happens in an El Niño?
A new meteor shower is anticipated to put on a sky display after the 2014 Eta Aquarids meteor shower peak last May 5 and 6. Astronomers claimed that Earth should be plowing through the Comet 209P/LINEAR debris and the new meteor storm from the comet illuminate the night skies on May 23 and 24.
From mere speculation, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed the high probability of an emerging El Niño at 70 per cent and that it will begin to be felt as early as July.
Chinese terrorist attacks are getting rampant.
At least four more officials of the sunken South Ferry passenger ferry Sewol have been arrested on charges of overloading the ship with cargo. Retrieval operations, meantime, continued even as divers rallied on despite the death of a civilian colleague.
In May, 2014 skywatchers can take a view of the ringed planet Saturn. In one of the most spectacular astronomical events of May, 2014, planet Saturn will come closest to the Earth.
NASA scientists have recently announced the largest moon in outer space may have ice and liquid oceans "stacked up" in several layers like the popular club sandwich and apparently can support life.
Climate scientists have detected a spike in sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. The sudden rise in temperature has sparked fears of an incoming "strong El Niño" event. El Niño is a phenomenon that affects wind patterns and can cause both drought and floods. Although previous research has claimed that extreme El Niño events might happen later in 2014 but according to experts, the recent spike in temperature hints that the El Niño phenomenon will be more likely to be "significant" t...
After a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern Thailand's Chiang Rai Province on Monday evening, one person died and at least 23 others were reportedly injured.
