An earthquake in New Zealand has twisted the tracks of one of the country's railways.

An orbiting spacecraft has discovered a key mineral in bedrock on the surface of Mars that suggests the planet might once have had an environment hospitable to life, scientists reported today.

SCIENTISTS in the US are deadlocked over the severity of the next sunspot cycle, which could produce powerful solar storms that can disrupt communication systems on Earth.

Scientists in the US are deadlocked over the severity of the next sunspot cycle, which could produce powerful solar storms that can disrupt communication systems on Earth.

It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever.

Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast of Ethiopia that could be the “birth of a new ocean basin”, scientists said.

THE rate of ice melting in the Arctic is leading to an ocean ice-free in summer and researchers see no natural process likely to change that trend.

The Northern Hemisphere has been getting greener, according to researchers studying satellite data.

Earthquake experts believe that a double set of earth tremors was responsible for the sinking of the Kursk.