To prevent natural disasters from becoming catastrophic in terms of the critical civil infrastructure or life losses and property damages, a project is undertaken at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Auroop Ganguly of Oak Ridge`s...

Fluorescent green pigs! Chinese scientists have successfully bred pigs that are partially green! These lab-bred pigs may one day help in boosting stem cell research, according to the Xinhua news agency. The three transgenic pigs were injected...

Brazilian rainforest need to be fertilized by dust, more than half of which is supplied by a valley in northern Chad -- Bodele Valley. The scientists are amazed by these unique features of the valley that might be responsible for making it such suitable..

A part of an island south of the North Pole has collapsed free! A giant ice shelf -- the size of 11,000 football fields -- has snapped free from the island. Using satellite imagery, the scientists have spotted this phenomenon, which within one hour...

After the Bush admininistration's proposal for the polar bears protection, it is now the turn for the North Pacific right whale. To keep the world's most endangered whale from going extinct, a conservation group is pressuring the U.S. government to...

China may face severe natural disasters and water shortages soon! And, none other than the global warming is to be blamed for it! Irrespective of its seeking to tame energy consumption, global warming is threatening to drive down the country's food...

Witness the brilliant combination of natural instinct and modern technology, China has come up with! Two days after two quakes struck off neighboring Taiwan, China has come up with an earthquake prediction system. This is not like any conventional...

With UK coming up with its first deep-diving, remote-controlled robot for proving mysteries 6.5km (four miles) deep down the Antarctica, University of Kansas in Lawrence researchers have also come up with a prototype pilotless aircraft that will be...

The invasive knapweed is considered as one of the most-destructive noxious weeds in the West. It notoriously crowd-out nutritious forage for their livestock! To combat an invasive weed, a University of Idaho researcher is harnessing the power of tiny.

About 450 years ago, the North Atlantic Ocean was found to be going through periodic warming. And it was during these time, extended periods of major wildfires occurred in the West. This finding has led scientists conclude that there lies a link...