SCIENCE

The 2013 Lyrids Meteor Shower was at its best peak from April 21 to the early morning hours of April 22. Viewers who were not able to experience the spectacle can still catch the rare phenomenon with NASA’s live stream coverage shared on Space.com beginning at 8:30 p.m. EDT (0030 GMT).

The 2013 Lyrids Meteor Shower is at its peak between Sunday night and the early hours of Monday morning but viewers can still see the spectacle until April 25. The bright moon may be an obstacle for the sky watchers but there are still some tips on how to best view the celestial display.

About one-third of men fake orgasms and the reason why they act is out of love, kindness and sexual insecurity, said an American urologist who just released a book on male sexual health.

U.S. scientists have successfully grown in a laboratory for the first time a whole functioning kidney by removing kidney cells from a donor rat kidney and injecting the mixture of rate kidney and blood-vessel cells into a tough collagen scaffold which grew the entire body organ in culture.

The Star Wars Saga became influential when it comes to science and technology, and now some of innovations which appeared inside the film slowly being seen for real. Androids, holograms, mechanical arms and force field are among being developed. Fifteen Star Wars technologies now embracing today's digital age.

The Mayans were both right and wrong about Dec 21, 2012, scientists who used carbon dating said over the weekend.

India's federal government is planning to commission at least four studies to aid the country achieve its carbon emission reduction cuts as a prelude to the new global climate agreement expected to be signed in 2015.

China's financial centre Shanghai has confirmed it will start its carbon emissions trading this coming month of June. Although no specific date was provided, it made sure the system will be up and running before the month ends.

Even if the Australian federal government launched on Tuesday its first national space policy, the country would neither send astronauts to Mars or other celestial destinations.

In the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database, an unnamed witness reported spotting "very large triangle-shaped mass of lights moving very swiftly from southeast to northeast in a straight line" in Houston, Texas on Sunday, April 7. The witness revealed the UFO sighting occurred at around 3:33 a.m. in the backyard.

Charges of bribery and illegal entry await the 12 Chinese fishers on board a fishing vessel that ran aground in the Philippines' Tubbataha Reef Natural Park, the latest mishap in a span of just two months, even as park rangers admitted its monitoring radar was off at the time of the accident.

Cancer has become the leading cause of deaths in China's Beijing, and by 2020, from 2.5 million annually, the cancer-related deaths in the world's second-largest economy will balloon to 3 million per year.

China's Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone, will start its carbon emissions trading on June 17, its Mayor Qin Xu said in an interview with a local newspaper.

The University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) and Lowell Observatory astronomers utilized NASA’s Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) to observe the 2013 Comet C/2012 S1 ISON’s near-Earth approaching movement and composition. The Swift UVOT managed to capture an image of the comet which the space agency released to the public two days ago.

The water quality at South Australia's Adelaide beaches is now being questioned and might be subjected to quality testing following the surge of carcasses of dolphins, fish and penguins that have washed ashore in the recent days.

A very "fast-moving" band of rain has brought an unexpected large amount of rainfall, submerging Sydney's CBD in panic-gripping flash floods on Wednesday morning.

The numbers tell a story of China's growing air pollution menace. Claiming 1.2 million lives so far, the data from a new scientific study looking into the leading causes of death worldwide, China's latest figure accounted for 40 per cent of the world's total number of deaths.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that their most viewed public record file is the 1950 UFO Memo that recounts the odd story of a witness about three flying saucers spotted in New Mexico. The UFO Memo or also known as the “Hottel Memo” has been viewed almost 1 million times since 2011 after FBI launched its online public records database called “Vault.”

An international team led by Australian scientists tracked the Antarctic blue whale, the world's biggest animal, through the mammal's songs, using acoustic tracking techniques.

Contributions led by emerging Asian economies such as Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey and China have catapulted Asia to become the leader in cutting carbon emissions for better environmental conditions. However, on a per country level, Australia listed way down below.

The scourge of oil spill will bedevil humanity. In last years, we have witnessed many oils spills. Some of them where small, some of them were bigger, but undoubtedly all of them had enormous impact on the environment.

A book on dinosaurs about to be released gives a clue how the extinct creature had sex given their physical feature such as spiky tails and bony armours.

Scientists warned over the weekend not only of hotter days ahead but even solar flares amid forecasts that the Sun will wake up from its slumber and start solar flare activities sometime in 2013.

Crews of Queensland Rail are working overtime to clean up some 147 tonnes of zinc concentrate that toppled on the rail over the weekend before it causes further damage to the rail and to the immediate environment.

No, it was not another end-of-the world scenario. Meteor streaks witnessed by millions of Americans living in the East Coast and two Canadian provinces turned out to be a yard-long rock that entered the Earth's atmosphere on Friday evening at about 8 p.m.

Dr Ed Lu, a physicist and former NASA astronaut, said there is a 30 per cent chance that a near-Earth asteroid would hit the planet within this century. He estimated the hit would have a five-mega tonne impact.

Residents of Alaska were treated on Monday, March 18, to the awesome sight of the Northern Lights. The Aurora Borealis was seen from the Interior to South East and parts of South-Central, which includes Anchorage, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.

A video on YouTube of penguins at the Aquarium of the Pacific has become viral with more than 100,000 hits so far.

A highly resistant strain of bacteria contaminated hand-washing sinks in the intensive care unit at Melbourne's Dandenong Hospital, causing 10 patients to become ill. The bacteria, known as Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE, has also killed people overseas.