Most spiral galaxies in the Universe have a bar structure in their centre.

Now, new image taken by Hubble Space Telescope has offered a particularly clear view of one of these.

The telescope has...

Iran plans to establish a national satellite launch base in the southeast of the country, adjacent to the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean, Press TV reported.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has...

Myanmar will draft a media law with help from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the official media reported Saturday.

The information ministry is drafting the law in...

That's why we must never downplay active parenting. It's not the teacher's responsibility to teach our children about money, sex, relationships, or even instil discipline. It is a...

Most of us diet sometime or other - and we want fast results. But that rarely works. Lose weight quickly and it's usually all back, plus a bit more, within three...

Students at the University of Alberta won the Guinness World Record for the most players in a dodgeball game. They had 4,979 people partcipate. (University of Alberta/HO) That's a lot of balls. ...

The remains of Fribjon Bjornson in found in a vacant home on the Nak'azdli reserve in B.C. Friday. (RCMP/HO) Police in B.C. have identified the human remains found in a vacant home on the...

Bjork told a journalist recently that she'd always wanted to be a music teacher. And so she was, in her own dazzling style, during the first show of a six-night residency at the New York Hall of...

This southeast Asian mystery bird is atypical amongst those species with similar habits. Can you tell me in what way it is atypical? Can you identify this mystery bird's taxonomic family and...

Nasa has released the first ever moving images of the dark side of the Moon, the side never visible from Earth, filmed by the spacecraft GRAIL. . Report...

Russia 's space agency and training center for cosmonauts is launching a campaign to choose a new team of cosmonauts to train for a special mission, most likely for the moon this...

Suncor's tailings reduction operation (TRO) site in Fort McMurray: The oilsands industry is footing the bill for a new pollution monitoring program that has some...

(File Photo) Canadian police departments should collect race-based crime data, two Ontario criminologists say. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre...

CUPE Local 416 president Mark Ferguson speaks to the media. (DON PEAT/QMI Agency) TORONTO -- Take it now, CUPE Local 416 or live with it starting Sunday. ...

The new SpringHouse Ministry Center is planning an open house Saturday, Feb. 4, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in south Minneapolis. This is a beautiful renovated church at 610 W. 25th Street in the former...

), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the hedge sparrow, the shuffle-wing, or as the dunnock accentor, the European dunnock or, most famously (especially in Britain), just as the dunnock, photographed...

Bjork performed on Friday evening at the New York Hall of Science, she sang: "Octagon polygon/pipes of an organ/sonic branches/murmuring drone." Video screens above the in-the-round stage,...

more precious . The metal packs as much of a punch against cancer cells as a leading chemotherapy drug, and could reduce the negative side effects that accompany such...

The trouble with this lifestyle is that it consumes a lot of power. If everyone in the world started living like wealthy Americans, we'd need to generate more than 10 times as much energy each...

YOU'RE running late for work and you can't find your keys. What's really annoying is that in your frantic search, you pick up and move them without realising. This may be because the...

The United Steelworkers (USW) has slammed the federal and Ontario governments for failing to support working families by allowing Caterpillar to shut down the Electro-Motive plant in London. The...

The Tolonews website runs a story on its front page reporting about the news of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in Kabulin this May 23, 2011, file photo. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood/Files...

Workers in protective hazmat suits clear the belongings of protesters from the Occupy DC protest movement at the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square, Washington Feb. 4, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan...

It was probably a rather small step for LEGO but it was certainly one giant leap for a LEGO man when he was launched into space by a couple of Canadian teens recently. The mission was the result of...

They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that "bat flies" have been doing...

Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA...

. When natural gas is cooled (to -160 C) it becomes a clear, colourless, odourless liquid.Because LNG weighs less than half the weight of water, it floats if spilled on water.. Much of the...

ELECTRONS can orbit the nucleus of an atom in the same way a class of asteroids orbits the sun. The work could allow for new levels of control over chemical...

Taliban 'poised to retake Afghanistan' KABUL - - More than 3,000 civilians were killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2011, the fifth year in a row the number has risen, the United Nations...

NASA has released a rare video of the far side of the moon, captured by one of the two GRAIL probes that are orbiting the moon to map its gravitational field. The US space agency...

Jellyfish have become the subject of what resembles a modern myth, some say. The story goes like this: Around the world, more and more massive blooms of the gelatinous creatures are cropping up,...

Teacher Mary Felber troubleshoots a problem with a robot with sophomore Sarah Kane at Mojave High School Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. Senior Marco Garcia is at...

Here's an astronomy video about cats, just in time for our Caturday morning video smile! This video is a chat with (a man whose name will delight birdwatchers everywhere) Brant Widgeon, who is...

The bitterly cold weather sweeping Britain and the rest of Europe has been linked by scientists with the ice-free seas of the Arctic, where global warming is exerting its greatest...

reported on Thursday. One whole face of the Moon can never be seen from Earth because it constantly faces away from our planet. But now one of the twin GRAIL spacecraft launched...

Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous theoretical physicists in the world, just celebrated his 70th birthday, despite suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease that has rendered him wheel...

BEIJING, Jan. 09 (Xinhuanet) -- Among all the fields of international research on giant pandas, breeding is the most prominent, experts said. Since cooperative research started in 1994, the Chengdu...

In science, it's not enough to think something is so. Researchers must show that what we believe to be true is in fact true, proven through statistically significant and reproducible results....

Specialist Michael Wagnon is seen in this undated handout. The U.S. Army dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face court-martial in the murder of unarmed Afghan civilians,...

The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories - the Chandra X-ray Observatory [blue], the Hubble Space...

Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist and biochemist, will become chair of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health's Scientific Advisory Board, the clinic...

In first of three letters written by Albert Einstein, the father of relativity tells 'Friends of the Truth' it was right not to accept Jews into the organization because it would weaken...

The Russian space agency has announced it is to boost cooperation with its partners in the US and the European Union, and has called for the creation of a permanent base on the...

Dmitry Medvedev . Rogozin had previously proposed consolidating all the related defense-industry enterprises into a single entity to work on projects for the Aerospace Defense System, the unified...

-- if not for a stray pair of late-20th century sneakers. Renowned fashion photographer Arthur Elgort, now 72, actually created these images for the December 1999 issue of...

LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of...