SCIENCE

The most likely locations for microbes on Mars to grow were under the surface in wet environments warmed by hydrothermal activity, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.

Three additions have been made to the existing 109 officially named chemical elements in the periodic table. Elements 110, 111, and 112 have been named darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg), and copernicium (Cn), respectively.

NASA scientists are monitoring an iceberg the size of New York or Berlin forming over a vulnerable Antarctic glacier which is about to break off.

Six volunteers have spent 520 days in isolation locked in steel tubes to simulate a mission to the Red Planet.

A widely-used treatment for a rare disease could help scientists slow down the ageing process on older people, researchers believe.

NASA has begun funding research into "tractor beams" in order to gather samples for analysis in future missions.

Researchers at the Uppsala University founds that people in East Asia share genetic material with Denisovans, who were named from the cave in Siberia where they were first found.

NASA has won a GreenGov Presidential Award from the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The GreenGov awards celebrate exceptional efforts to promote sustainability in federal agency operations.

Man's ancestors mated with Neanderthals and other related hominids during evolution, according to new research.

Ministers, tech executives and internet activists from around the world have gathered in London for a Conference on Cyberspace, to discuss how to tackle security threats and crime on the Internet without stifling economic opportunities or freedom of speech.

The results of a study published in the journal Nature shows that giant sauropod dinosaurs such as Camarasaurus had seasonal migratory tendencies.

New York has been covered in snow following rare October storms.

China is set to launch an unmanned spacecraft on Monday, taking its next step towards its goal of building its first space station by 2020.

According to media reports, both India and the Philippines have welcomed what they claim is the world's seven billionth person.

A report to be revealed next month says that two different US government satellites were hijacked by hackers on four different occasions between 2007 and 2008.

NASA is tracking the path of an asteroid as it flies past the Earth closer than the moon's orbit on Nov 8.

Scottish sky watchers must have had a wonderful surprise when the "northern lights" lit up the sky on Tuesday, said experts in a BBC report. Scientists at the UK-based AuroraWatch spotted the lights in the skies over Durness, Highland on Tuesday. The phenomenon is expected to light up the skies on Wednesday too.

There can be no doubt of the bitter disappointment that Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, must have felt when the consortium led by Scottish Power walked away from the chance of establishing and operating Britain's first power plant with Carbon Capture (CCS) and reported by the media on 19 October 2011. The consortium led by Scottish Power, a subsidiary of Spanish utility firm Iberdrola though its headquarters is in Glasgow, also included National Grid and Shell...

A 14-day-old new born has miraculously survived after being trapped for 46hours in debris after the 7.2 earthquake hit Turkey on Sunday.

The passenger plane of the future could be solar powered and travel at five times the speed of sound, but only if the British government act quickly.

Thailand has approved a five-day holiday for its residents and urged them to protect their homes, assess and look after their property and evacuate to safer places Tuesday.

A critically endangered species of rhino has been poached to extinction in Vietnam, with the last Javan rhino found dead with its horn cut off.

Residents of quake-affected areas spent their second night out, in freezing temperatures, after Turkish towns were rattled by several aftershocks from a massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake that has, so far, killed more than 270 people and wounded another 1,000.

Turkey is pursuing non-stop rescue operations in a desperate attempt to search for missing people who are believed to be trapped under debris in the aftermath of a massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake.

The defunct German research satellite ROSAT finally fell back to Earth somewhere in Asia over the weekend, but its exact whereabouts remain a mystery.

It took the earthquake in Turkey to last 29 seconds. But, it was the aftermath which has paralyzed the nation. For some, their prayers were answered when the rescue efforts turned out to be successful. But, not everyone has had that luck.

More than 200 have been killed and 1.000 injured in eastern Turkey as a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the area on Sunday.

The 29-second earthquake which struck Turkey has killed at least 138 people. The country continues to reel in hundreds of aftershocks, received in less than ten hours, one of which was at 6.0 magnitude strong enough to create more damages.

The defunct German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) re-entered the Earth's atmosphere either late Saturday or early Sunday, depending on one's location.