SCIENCE

Finding could help understand why children of smokers face risk of bronchial diseases.

Resveratrol in red wine could help improve mobility and prevent life-threatening falls among older people.

Study finds that binge drinking is tied to higher status - causing students down the social pecking order to drink heavily in the hope of greater popularity.

University of Liverpool scientists find that one strain of E.coli carries a toxin that causes DNA mutations and cancer.

Scientists have developed a substance that absorbs CO2 based on molecules present in urine.

What happened to Amelia Earhart? Plane fragments could finally solve one of aviation's most enduring mysteries.

New owls called the Camiguin Hawk-owl and the Cebu Hawk-owl because of their distinctive singing.

Harmful effects of maternal smoking on the fetal respiratory system begin early in pregnancy.

Deadly hantavirus pulmonary syndrome kills Curry Village campsite tourist but second victim expected to recover.

Oxide mullite reduces pollution up to 45 percent compared to platinum crystals that are now used in diesel vehicles.

International team of scientists discover unique galaxy cluster, SPT-CLJ2344-4243 or the Phoenix cluster, that churns out 740 new stars every year.

Newborns whose mothers undergo chemotherapy have lower birth weight, but there are no other effects.

Egg yolk found to increase plaque in heart's arterial walls, leading to coronary artery disease.

University of Southern California and Cancer Prevention Institute of California researchers find that eating red meat cooked in pan at a high temperatures increases prostate cancer risk.

New research warns that epidemic of global tobacco use is still huge despite several years of control efforts.

China's basketball titan Yao Ming lends his stature to campaign against ivory smuggling with visit to Africa.

Researchers in Florida have captured a "monstrous" python measuring five metres in length and carrying 87 eggs

One million Nazi racoons are a plague in Germany and about to move to the UK.

US Air Force, Boeing and Nasa to test engine that can travel five times speed of sound.

With the Mars rover Curiosity revealing the phenomenal scientific and technological feats that humans can achieve, physicist Donald Sinclair slams naysayers and explains why the monumental expedition is worth every single penny

In one of Nasa's most ambitious missions, Curiosity rover makes touchdown on the Red Planet.

Sarah, a 11 year old female cheetah living at the Cincinnati Zoo in the US, is now the proud owner of the new world land speed record for mammals

New therapy for leg ulcers could soon provide a viable alternative to available treatments, say scientists.

With cliches and misconceptions dominating science journalism, Donald Sinclair looks at his top pet peeves.

People of Newport in Sydney find humpback whale that washed up dead in a beach side swimming pool.

Study claims that commercial suborbital space travel will realise between £385m and £1.03bn over its first ten years

Natural carbon "sinks" including oceans and lands have almost doubled their uptake of greenhouse gases in the last 50 years.

Romidepsin and decitabine activate a tumor suppressor gene that makes the tumor cells to stop growing eventually leading to the death of the cells.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers have found that obesity increases the risk of developing sexual and urinary dysfunction in men.