Founder of Paypal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Elon Musk has gained the reputation of a brilliant entrepreneur and engineer. By...

Prototype tactile recording and display system for real-time reproduction of touch (credit: UCSD) Since touch screen interfaces have been introduced...

We all know that CO2 dumped in the atmosphere (consequences in the ocean, where the most carbon winds up actually...

The Hawthorne effect (commonly referred to as the observer effect) is a form of reactivity whereby subjects improve or modify...

The fat-tailed dwarf lemur, native to the marvelous isolated ecosystem of Madagascar, is the closest human relative known to hibernate....

Honeybees are exquisite and majestic beings, which have always caught the imagination of people. Bees are typically associated with feminine...

Regenerative medicine has come a long way, and while important strides forward have been made, scientists are still toiling with...

Many months later after scientists isolated thousands of samples taken from different bat species found close to the home of the...

There's an extremely fine line between delusion and grand vision - it's enough just to take a look back in...

Conodonts - Greek for “having cone-shaped teeth” - are extinct chordates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. These are some...

Some 300 million cases of malaria are reported each year in Africa, the continent where the disease is still running...

This is a typical camera used for shooting 3-D images and movies. The equipment is very expensive and thus accessible...

A while ago, ZME Science reported on some mind blowing research in which dogs were trained to literally sniff lung...

A interesting, yet controversial discussion, among climate scientists is set around the runaway greenhouse effect. Basically, past a certain threshold...

How many times did you apply for a job or to enter a graduate program in some school somewhere only...

Most people don't know this but helium -- the familiar inert gas we all use to inflate party balloons --...

The subtleties in these computer-generated images of translucent materials are important. Texture, color, contrast, and sharpness combine to create a...

(c) Geoff Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory We all appreciate and love the sun's gaze in the morning, but truth...

On the left, ISON comet sows a tail of fine rocky dust. On the right, a neutral gas atmosphere surrounding...

Studying death in humans has always been precarious. I mean, it's not like anyone would volunteer to be live dissected...

Most smokers fall prey to the poisonous grasp of cigarettes because they became seduced by the simple act itself, not...

(c) Employees inspect solar panels at a factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Photograph: Lang Lang/Reuters The largest fossil fuel burning...

An US astronomer recently reported that he and his team have discovered a new moon orbiting the eighth and farthest...

image via www.meaningfulwomen.com A recent study released by the  Yale Rudd Center found that billions of food and beverage related ads that...

An electronic component where a graphene layer has been placed on the hotspots (credit: Chalmers University of Technology) In the...

“Feeding nine billion people in a truly sustainable way will be one of the greatest challenges our civilization has ever faced,”...

A number of human-like unique limb features, like the thumb, can be witnessed from the earliest most stages of development....

This weekend, one of the most curious and utopian conferences took place in New York City, where some of the...

It's rather clear that social-economic factors have a huge part to play in the development of an individual, but when...

NTU Asst Prof Wang Qijie, 34, and lead author PhD student Liu Tao, 29, looking at their newly designed nanostructured...

Hydrogen fuel has been eyeballed by scientists, as well as governments and energy corporations, for many years now as a...

In April, the Russian space agency launched the Bion-M craft which carried quite a few mice, gerbils, newts, snails and...

A rather debatable theory in psychology says  the brain detects grammar errors even when we don't consciously pay attention to them,...

Renowned physicist, famous for his study of black holes, galaxies and for authoring a popular book on the origin of the...

The gelade make strange sounds that biologists keenly describe as being similar to those produced during human speech. (c) Thore...

Researchers at  University of California, Davis have shown for the first time how whole cells and fragments orient and move in...

An often overlooked aspect of climate change is the migration of the traditionally-viewed climate line that separates the Northern and...

Since Einstein first postulated his theories of general relativity, physicists have constructed models describing the Universe that mainly revolve around...

A crewman sprays water over a recovered injector plate. (c) Bezos Expeditions Jeff Bezos is an extraordinary individual whom I...

You might be used to seeing birds peck grains as soon as you throw the food in front of them,...

Artist impression of the Curiosity rover trekking through the red planet. The rover is tasked with assessing Mars' ability to...

Chances are some of you have experienced a heartburn at some point in your lives - that sudden burning sensation...

Honeybees are extraordinary animals, and for years scientists have looked at them for inspiration to develop new technologies from artificial...

Altai dog fossil skull. (c) PLos ONE New DNA analysis of an ancient dog tooth sample found in Siberia suggests...

For more than two centuries physicians have been using general anesthetics to perform surgeries, however even now in the 21st...

A vortex loop begins to form a knot during a demonstration in the physics laboratory of Asst. Prof. William Irvine....

A group of researchers assessed seven individual climate models and found that in each case common open water vessels will...

As light goes through a birefringent crystal the horizontally and vertically polarized components of light spread out in space, but...

Image Credit: Zoological Society of London Earlier today I wrote about some recent findings that suggest humans have evolved unique...

There are millions of species on Earth, and naturally understanding the mechanics of evolution is of great importance for understanding...