It's not just teenagers who let hormones get the best of them, stock brokers do it all the time, according...

A new extensive report carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found approximately 1 in 8...

Meet Matthew, a bright eyes, chubby cheeked baby. On the outside he looks and behaves like any regular baby his...

Thousands of lightning bolts strike the Earth's surface roughly every couple of seconds, but despite their ubiquity this phenomena is...

The Moon doesn't have an atmosphere, but it is surrounded by a thick dust cloud; the dust constantly falls down...

It's no secret that many animals can sense the Earth's magnetic field, but until now, researchers didn't know exactly how...

Later last year, ZME Science revealed that one of Elon Musk's top priorities in the future is deploying a massive...

After placing no less than 225 camera traps, a group of researchers has collected a massive database of 1.2 million...

Around 80,000 people around the world answered a questionnaire that gauged what they valued most in life. Their responses were...

At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) conference, a team from MIT, in collaboration wit the Technische Universitat...

It's striking how a company like Research in Motion (RIM) went under the radar so fast, considering it used to...

Researchers have long theorized that the superior temporal sulcus (STS) is involved in processing speech rhythms, but it's only recently...

There's a growing body of evidence suggesting Vitamin D plays an important role in regulating serotonin. This means it could...

MIT researchers deployed intricate contraptions, including cables that run to the sea floor and an autonomous submarine, to measure internal...

One of the most famous NSA whistleblowers (or the 'original NSA whistleblower'),  William Binney, said the agency is collecting stupendous...

While searching for the remains of an ancient human ancestor, archaeologists came across a lot more than their bargained for:...

Just like Pluto, the iconic dinosaur genus was demoted decades ago and classified under another sauropod genus. But a more...

Eight colonies of common ants were shipped to the International Space Station last December to study how microgravity might affect...

Ironically enough, one male researcher from England used tampons to detect grey water contamination, or laundry system run off, that...

A team at Stanford and MIT has devised a novel configuration that combines silicon - the leading solar cell semiconductor...

Time to get a bit geeky with Dmitriy Morozov latest contraption: an 8 bit camera that prints photos on a...

A new company called Carbon3D, founded by a team of physicists and chemists, were inspired by the iconic Terminator villein,...

About two dozen University of Texas students gathered on Saturday at the entrance to the SXSW tech and entertainment festival...

The central American republic of Nicaragua is nothing short of a renewable energy paradise: great winds, a scorching tropical sun...

Octopus species that live in ice-cold Antarctic waters employ an unique strategy to transport oxygen to its tissue and survive,...

Since 2000, the number of deaths from heroin overdose have quadrupled. At the same time, the profile of the average...

The UK boasts 650,000 solar installations across homes, offices, schools, churches, warehouses, farms, police stations, train stations and even a...

The link between climate change and violent conflict has been thrown about often, but a recent study is the first...

The US government approved a genetically modified apple that doesn't turn brown when bruised or sliced. While most genetic alterations...

Millions of years before rock and roll, LSD and the new age movement, dinosaurs were having a blast in the...

The next Mars exploration rover will likely feature a helicopter drone, which is expected to act as scouting drone to...

Most spiders weave sticky, wet webs to trap their prey, but the feather-legged lace weaver spider, Uloborus plumipes, employs a...

Two teams of researchers from the US recoded the genome of the E. coli bacteria such that it dies when...

Based on fossil evidence and genome analysis, scientists know that the two groups diverged from a common ancestor around 420...

Right now the US is struggling with bone numbing chill, so it might be hard to digest this latest news:...

Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently demonstrated a new technique for building complex and...

Since it was first launched in 2009, the $600 Kepler mission has discovered more than 1,000 alien worlds. Arguably it's...

For the very first time, engineers have used the DNA origami assembly method to build  complex DNA-based mechanism that performs...

The introduction of mobile phones coupled with internet made for a huge leap in communication, making people connect with each...

Using a pulse of infrared light, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have...

The Nanoflare technology uses a genetic-based approach to detect and image live cancer cells present in the blood stream, well...

While the LHC at CERN is gearing up for its long-awaited restart, following an overhaul, scientists aren't standing idle. After...

Researchers from the  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a model that projects how...

There's an immense body of evidence that proves that meditation has significant beneficial effects for mental health, but it's only...

Researchers at Baycrest Health Sciences’ Rotman Research Institute have found that patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who also show anxiety...

One of the most fundamental question evolutionary biologists are trying to answer is how did multicellular life evolve from single celled...

Following the genome sequence of the oldest modern human remains outside of Africa using the most refined DNA analysis to...

After exactly 674 days in orbit, the Air Force's top secret spaceplane landed in California on Friday. There's very little anyone...