SCIENCE

Researchers have found a strong association between computer and Internet use in adolescents and engagement in multiple-risk behaviours (MRB), including illicit drug use, drunkenness and unprotected sex.

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Upton, N.Y., has found the heaviest atom of antimatter ever, a bit of anti-helium.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attend the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, of which her husband is commander.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon use HTML5 based browser technology to create a hyperactive time-lapse high-resolution video and image sequencing feature.

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland set a record for the most intense beam of particles ever fired and come a step closer to confirming the Higgs boson, otherwise known as the God particle.

An team of researchers has discovered a way to make a polymer that heals itself, which could revolutionize coatings.

Army goes to Android to create tactical specific applications; which can communicate across a spectrum of devices.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found a giant buried deposit of dry ice, which could be evidence that Mars once had a thicker atmosphere and was able to have more water on its surface.

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks tomorrow night, though it starts tonight (April 21) between midnight and dawn. The time for the most activity will be during the day, at 7 p.m. Greenwich time on April 22, but for people watching from the U.S. the best time is probably the early morning hours of April 22 and 23.

A report from German scientists has refuelled apprehensions over the carcinogenic implications of energy saving devices, bulbs in particular.

The ice that lies in the Canadian Arctic may play a larger role in sea level rise than anyone thought.

To celebrate Hubble Telescope's astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore pointed Hubble's eye at a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.

There are many people who think the Fukushima nuclear crisis has signaled the demise of the nuclear power industry, or at least that it will soon run into a ditch. But certain facts speak otherwise. Rising scepticism about the industry's future, especially in Europe, notwithstanding, the nuclear power sector is more likely to thrive than not.

For the first time in 27 years, clinical diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease dementia have been revised, and research guidelines for earlier stages of the disease have been characterized to reflect a deeper understanding of the disorder. The National Institute on Aging/Alzheimer's Association Diagnostic Guidelines for Alzheimer's Disease outline some new approaches

A supernova remnant may be evidence that a star visible in daylight coincided with the birth of King Charles II of England.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates Japan's damaged nuclear plant at Fukushima, said on Sunday that radiation level at the plant will be brought down to a downward trend within three months. The following is the latest update from TEPCO about the status of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant:

NASA has released spectacular never-seen-before space images captured by its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

Some of the pharmaceuticals intended to treat minor illnesses of astronauts in space may have shorter shelf-life than they do on Earth, finds a new study.

A seismologist at the University of Tokyo is blasting Japanese officialdom for building seismic hazard maps based on the idea that some earthquakes could be predicted, and called on the government to admit that they can't.

Catherine Zeta-Jones follows several celebrities including Ben Stiller and Sting into treatment for Bipolar Disorder. The actress was reportedly hit by the stress of husband Michael Douglas' throat cancer battle.

A byproduct of the paper industry and crab shells may soon be used to take radioactive contaminants out of water.

Space shuttles will head to Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Orlando.

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft assessment of the potential health effects associated with formaldehyde exposure needs substantial revision, says a new report from the National Research Council, which recommends improvements for EPA's final assessment.

University of Utah geophysicists have made the first large-scale image of the electrical conductivity of the plume that powers the Yellowstone supervolcanp, and found it looks bigger than anyone thought it was.

NASA is celebrating Yuri Gagarin's famous flight in space all week long.

News organizations across the world were taken in -- once again -- by a hoax that was perpetrated more than 50 years ago.

A research report from The National Center for Atmospheric Research says climate control will damage cities in undeveloped countries.

Many of the world's fast-growing urban areas, especially in developing countries, will likely suffer disproportionately from the impacts of changing climate, a new study said.

In what would have been a scary repetition of the tragedy that unfolded after the quake-tsunami last month, two out of three power lines to Japan's Onagawa nuclear plant were knocked out in the fresh aftershock that occurred in Japan's north-east on Thursday night.