SCIENCE

Because of Egyptians' belief in certain deities, there are some anomalies surrounding the mummification of King Tutankhamun which a new study links to Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld.

Australia’s science agency is apologising to the nation for failing to invent dragons. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has promised to accelerate their dragon R&D program after a seven-year-old girl asked the scientists if they could make a dragon for her.

A mysterious shipwreck discovered off the coast of New Zealand may be the key to rewriting the island nation's history. Scraps of wood taken from the site may have probably come from a Dutch ship in the early 1700s, according to the results of carbon dating tests and research reports.

Until recently, news from China about its environmental concerns and problems were highly censored. But because it can no longer literally put a lid to control its spreading and unmanageable air pollution, China has admitted the smog haze situation in the country has already claimed thousands of lives.

Some suburban areas of Christchurch may be under the water within 100 years due to rising sea levels. In a Taylor & Tonkin report, experts have warned that South Shore, South New Brighton, Summer and Brooklands could sink if current sea levels continue to rise. The city council is making plans to prepare for a worst case scenario of a great change on Canterbury's coastline due to melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland, storm surges and warming seas.

Canada's prevailing bitter cold temperature conditions has created a massive travel chaos all over the country, with air and road travel pretty much suspended on Tuesday. The freezing weather has likewise given birth to "frost quakes," giving off panic and tension to already anxious residents.

Even with the major setback in the quest for functional cure against HIV/AIDS, world-renowned AIDS researcher Dr Robert Gallo sees effective cure versus the deadly disease possible - going realistic is the only way to achieve such goal.

Canada's cloaked in a massive, deep and bitter cold weather conditions that has frozen everything it has touched with. It has disrupted flight plans of major airliners, prompted school bus service cancellations and yielded power outages. The prevailing weather condition is likewise threatening oil drilling and fracking operations.

A magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Adelaide before 8:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 6, after an earthquake rattled nearby Flinders Ranges in South Australia (SA) at 4:31 a.m. on the same day.

Russia has barred some 132 used Japanese cars from entering the country due to radioactive pollution concerns.

H1N1 and HIV have joined forces in 2014 pandemic convergence infecting lives without any guaranteed cure. The outbreak has been declared in Canada as H1N1 is continuously spreading, making HIV patients vulnerable. Here are six facts you should be aware of why both are related to each other.

The year 2013 has been recorded as New Zealand's second hottest year, according to Auckland University climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger on Monday.

Officials have warned residents in Western Australia, particularly Perth, to take necessary precautions against the smog haze currently enveloping the state. The smoke emanated from a bushfire that started on Friday. Authorities have issued a corresponding alert versus life and property.

Inland Australia continues to deal with rising temperatures as the Bureau of Meteorology declares 2013 the hottest year on record with average temperatures at 1.20 degrees Celsius higher than the long term average of 21.8C. According to the bureau's Neil Plummer, the statistics point to a warming trend in Australia. He added it is not only in Australia where rising temperatures have been recorded but in other parts of the world as well.

HIV relapsed on two Boston patients motivate scientists to look for better treatment methods and ways to create a functional cure against the virus. The unfortunate event revealed several important factors on how to stop HIV/AIDS for good.

30 Hurricane Katrina homes that were built by Brad Pitt's Make It Right charity in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana (LA) are now reportedly rotting from the inside out.

In Sweden, some people have their own way of welcoming the New Year like lighting up Thai-style rice lanterns in the sky. However, the Swedish UFO experts are expecting a flow of UFO sighting reports during teh start of 2014 with the appearance of the rice lanterns in the dark, particularly on New Year's Eve.

Sex dolls could withstand high altitudes, deep freezing temperatures and high winds, according to an experiment made in mid-December by CNB.com, a California-based adult toy maker.

Due to more Australian women having the perception that their private parts have abnormal appearance, labiaplasties have increased by 5-fold in the country Down Under since 2001.

What a better way to greet the New Year from space? NASA astronauts will be welcoming 2014 from space and revelers at the New York’s Time Square will have the rare chance to watch the greetings from space.

The sun’s north and south poles have changed places said NASA, completing its field reversal at the end of 2013.

As the end of 2013 comes, people will witness the delicate waning crescent moon as the sun rises on December 30. Although winter is really thick on the northern half of the globe, people there will still be able to take a glimpse of the December 30 moon.

Australia's State of Victoria Department of Justice (DOJ) has just unveiled its new FireReady mobile phone app in early Dec. 2013 but some critics say that its performance is poor and not at par with their expectations. It reportedly had a lot issues that hindered it from working properly.

A professor from Iowa State University's Department of Biomedical Services who faked an AIDS cure research resigned from his post. The professor admits faking the cure to get part of $19 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health.

As the year 2014 enters, five supermoon dates are expected and the first one will be on January 1. January 1 will have the first new moon of the month before another one, which will be on January 30 making January 2014 the only month with two supermoons until January 2018 according to EarthSky.

Plastic surgeries don’t help people who obsessively believe themselves to be ugly, according to a study by a Melbourne researcher. Using a new imaging technique, researcher Ben Buchanan uncovers a weak link in the brain of people with body dysmorphic disorder, which forces people to constantly think their physical appearance needs improvement.

HIV research and development achieved several discoveries in 2013 - from drug therapy to unconventional and risky methods to eliminate the virus. Some of them found new things about HIV and plans to put them into trial. Here are some of notable anti-HIV results for this year to know what we can expect for 2014.

An amazing nano-scale microscopic muscle with more than 1000x the strength of humans was reportedly created by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) researchers using the vanadium dioxide inorganic compound.

At least 70 swimmers were injured in a river in Argentina when a school of carnivorous fish believed to be the piranha's cousins attacked on Christmas Day.