According to research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the University of Helsinki, plants release temperature-suppressing gases that send sunlight back into space, thereby causing atmospheric cooling.
A Korean-American tourist sitting in jail since last year will stand trial for accusations he was "committing crimes" in an attempt to bring down the North's government, Pyongyang announced over the weekend.
The test, conducted by teams from Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, marked the start of the spaceline's final phase of vehicle testing before launching its commercial service from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
An American woman, who would stop at nothing in order to have a fourth child, is now serving a five year sentence in prison in the United Kingdom. The desperate woman forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using syringes of donor sperm and has been charged with child cruelty
More than 600 applications from folks living in China have been received by the Dutch aerospace project Mars One, which plans to send people to settle Mars by 2023. Mars One is ultimately expecting tens of thousands worldwide to apply.
10 members of the popular Mexican ban La Reyna de Monterrey have been killed in a horrific car crash in northern Mexico, between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey.
Is a cure for HIV in 2013 a possibility? A group of Danish scientists say that it is.
Apparently, being deported has done Omar Borkan Al Gala more good than bad. The self-proclaimed fashion photographer, model, actor and poet has zoomed into superstardom after his encounter with the religious police of Saudi Arabia earlier this month.
New scientific research suggests that really big earthquakes can permanently deform the crust in the planet.
Along Misquamicut State Beach in Rhode Island, a twenty-eight foot-long dead basking shark settled on the sandy coastline.
Thirteen people were killed and some 65 injured in a prison riot on Saturday in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, local officials said.
Mexican authorities said on Saturday they detained 108 undocumented immigrants along highways, at bus stations and on a cargo train route that thousands of Central Americans use every year to cross Mexico and enter the United States illegally.
A recent study from scientists at France's CEA research agency reveals that the Earth's core is as hot as the Sun's surface. According to the study, the temperature of the Earth's core is measured at 6,000 Celsius, a range on par with the temperature with the Sun's surface.
Recent studies reveal that a new parasite genome has shown resistance to the front-line malaria treatment artemisinin. Parasite carriers are discovered in South-East Asian countries Thailand and Myanmar. Further studies are being undertaken to ascertain whether the new strain poses global concern.
The Third Review Conference of the State Parties of the Chemical Weapons Convention took place earlier this month at Hague, Netherlands. However, participants of the April 8 to 19 affair voice out disappointments due to continuing ambiguity in some of the most important matters concerning the convention, including the use of riot-control agents (RCA).
