EARTH

Radioactive decay of uranium, thorium and potassium is responsible for about 50% of the heat coming from the Earth's internal area, a study published in Nature Geoscience has found.

With no improvement in the overall food security conditions expected before early 2012, about a million of children in drought-ridden Horn of Africa are at the risk of dying from malnourishment.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Saturday has entered orbit around Asteroid Vesta to begin a year-long study of the second-most-massive object in the asteroid belt after the dwarf planet Ceres.

Astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis captured an amazing view of green Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights on Thursday, while they passed west of Australia.

A National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration revealed that a strong EL Nino in future could imperil the US east coast with rising sea levels and more destructive storm surges.

Snow leopards are listed as globally threatened

Researchers at the US Geological Survey (USGS) has concluded that last year's seasonal El Nino was responsible for severe erosion along the West Coast during the winter and could be an indicator of things to come.

The United States and the European Union slammed China's partial easing of export control of the rare earth minerals on Thursday.

The General Assembly of the United Nations gave the green light to the candidacy of South Sudan as the 193rd member state after declaring its independence from Sudan on July 9th.

Bastille Day 2011 celebrations are under way in France as Parisians take to the Champs-Élysées to celebrate Fête Nationale

China eased export curbs for rare earths on Thursday, restoring it to near-2010 levels in a bid to appease its trading partners, but the European Union said the measure did not go far enough to address concerns of stable supplies.

A mysterious long X-ray tail spanning more than 4 light years across may be stretching away from a spinning neutron star, or pulsar, according to astronomers who discovered the event using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

South Sudan declared its independence and became the newest country in the world. This move isn't much of a surprise because it's part of a treaty signed six years ago to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.

The U.S. registered its 19th driest and 26th warmest June on record, according to scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

According to a research published online on July 10 in the journal Natural Geoscience, an ancient 56 million-year-old landscape has been found submerged beneath the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Orkney-Shetland Islands and is being likened to the mysterious lost city of Atlantis.

The hacker has built his own iPad 3 by combining old laptop parts and a touchscreen.

Chinese most senior military commander has criticized the U.S. for its excessive spending on defense and also blamed Washington for rising tensions in the South China Sea.

The skull of one of the largest sea monsters ever found on earth has been unveiled to the public on Friday. Scientists described the creature, which is called pliosaur, as the most fearsome predator ever unearthed.

Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed off its seaside launch pad on Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the final flight of the U.S. space shuttle program.

Space shuttle Atlantis thundered off its seaside launch pad Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the final flight of the U.S. space shuttle program.

The death throes of massive stars that have gone supernova are the answer to the long-standing puzzle of what supplied our early universe with dust, according to a new study.