Asteroid 2012 DA14 close flyby today, meanwhile unrelated meteorite blazes over Russia
Tonight a historical event is about to occur after an asteroid half the size of a football field, called "2012...
North Korean nukes are getting bigger, geology finds
The site of North Korea’s three underground detonations, While the world was asleep, a few days ago North Korea made...
Rare supernova leftovers might have produced the youngest black hole in the Milky Way
This highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The composite...
Silicon robot hops 30 times its own height using combustion
Researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have developed a three-legged silicon robot that uses chemical reactions to help it leap...
Earth-like planets closer than previously thought. Nearest one might lie 13 light-years away
After researchers surveyed data from the Kepler mission tasked with identifying possibly habitable planets outside our solar system they found...
Curiosity drills Martian rock in most complicated maneuver yet
Recently, Curiosity rover made its most complex maneuver since it landed on Mars after it drilled a promising rock, offering...
Asteroid ‘2012 DA14’ set for closest flyby in modern history
That's what NASA officials have been telling the press recently, at least. If you haven't heard yet, a football field-sized...
Minor oil spills are underreported most of the time by oil companies
Oil spills, especially the big ones, can cause irremediable damage to the local ecosystem. Unfortunately once in a while, there's...
Cheap cotton-polymer material absorbs mist water by night, releases it by day. Could help irrigate deserts
A novel fabric primarily made out of cotton with a special polymer coating can absorb water from mist moisture during...
Genetics might predict how long you’ll live. Trauma might shorten life span
Researchers at Duke University studied the telomeres - the tip of chromosomes that protect them - in a group of...
Superomniphobic material can avoid any stain – repels almost any liquid
Scientists have developed a new surface, which they call "superomniphobic", that can repel virtually any liquid, even the most troublesome like...
Mississippi river might become unnavigable blocking vital shipping route
(c)Seth Perlman/AP Portions of the longest river in America, the Mississippi, are at risk of becoming unnavigable, spelling serious economic...
As we age learning is hampered because our brains can’t filter useless information as before
Children are veritable knowledge sponges that can appropriate an intense amount of skills in a short amount of time. As...
Antibiotic resistant gonorrhea arrives in North America too. STD might become “incurable”
Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world. It's been a real pest for centuries,...
Drinking hot chocolate from an orange or creme colored cup makes it taste better
A group of researchers from Polytechnic University of Valencia and Oxford University asked study participants to sample hot chocolate contained in...
The year in science: breakthrough moments of 2012
It's been quite the year, ladies and gentlemen - many discoveries, many studies and inventions; from the tiniest of particles...
Doomsday part 6: asteroid strike
You've seen it on the news, so you know it's true. Your 8 o'clock special news report showcases in a...
Doomsday part 4: Solar flares
A solar flare will breach Earth's magnetic field that typically shelters our planet's surface from such hazards. The ensuing onslaught...
Massive database of of 1,500 stem cell lines derived from diseased cells set to aid drug development
The StemBANCC project, developed as a joint effort between the European Union and Europe’s pharmaceutical industry, is set to culture 1,500 pluripotent stem...
Meet SPAUN – the most complex artificial human brain yet
A screen capture from a simulation movie of Spaun in action shows the input image on the right. The output...
Scientists change the colour of gold and other metals using nanotech
The tiny patterns are formed on the gold surface using a process called ion beam milling (the focused ion beam...
New ESA planet-hunter space telescope slated for 2017
The European Space Agency has officially announced that it will launch a new space telescope tasked with the primary objective...
What are the mechanics of trustworthiness? You need to ask a robot, ironically
Trust is in your genes. Humans are social beings, and from the dawn of the first community humans had to...
Saturn’s moon Titan most likely harbors a subsurface ocean of water
Last year, we reported on this incredible study from NASA scientists, where the possibility of a vast ocean of water beneath the...
Devastating disease spread by Varroa mite infection causes honeybee massacre
Honeybees are one of the most crucial members of the ecosystem, pollinating crops and plant cultures all around the world. Various studies...
Seagrass on ocean coasts can store twice as much carbon as tropical rainforests, yet face destruction
A new research from a team of international marine geoscientists has found that seagrass meadows, found in coastal regions, can...
Superflares 10,000 times more powerful than those in our solar system, observed on sun-like stars
Some stars, most often during their early life, exhibit an intense and energetic behavior, much greater than that of our...
Supermassive black hole caught devouring a star
In a distant galaxy, 2.7 billion light years away, a supermassive black hole, thousands of times more massive than our...
H5N1 controversial paper shows that bird flu is only a genetic mutation away from mammal flu
At the end of last year, controversy sparked among the medical scientific community when an unprecedented event occurred. Two separate and independent...
Sensing technology destined for robots adapted to help the blind navigate
One of the most sophisticated parts of a robot is its navigation system, why requires precise sensing and processing of...
New Yellowstone study suggests volcanic activity is more frequent than previously thought
The Yellowstone super volcano, which basically outlines the whole Yellowstone National Park, is part of one of the most active...
Diversity is what helped mammals survive through deep time
After the great dinosaur extinction some 65 million years ago, mammals finally had their big shot as numerous niches became...
Synthetic DNA and RNA that mimics chemistry of life can encode genetic information and evolve
Scientists at UK Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology have successfully managed to create an artificial version of both DNA...
Scientists devise computer using swarms of soldier crabs
Computing using unconventional methods found in nature has become an important branch of computer science, which might aid scientists construct more robust...
NASA turns to engineering crowd source for Mars mission in 2018
NASA is equivalent to innovation and cutting edge technology, and this was made possible by the creative flow of whole...
It really is rocket science, North Korea. In the wake of the nation’s failed launch
The whole world had its eyes on North Korea yesterday, when the nation proceeded on its third attempt to launch...
Holding a gun makes you look bigger and stronger, study finds
Part of a study which sought to see how deeply rooted is our psychological projection inherited from our ancestors when faced with a...
First-ever working quantum network lays foundation for the future’s quantum internet
Quantum technology is the future, no doubt. The impact of computing devices based on quantum effects finally entering service would...
Niceness is in your genes: scientists find pro-social behavior is influenced by genetics
A study performed last year observed that identical twins, who share 100% of the same genetic material and had the...
Printable 3-D robots might pave the way for massive home-made production
It seems 3-D printing is growing into a phenomenon, and rightfully so. We've seen jaw bones perfectly reconstructed and used...
The Human brain might be organized a whole lot simpler than previously thought. Imaging reveals 3-D grid structure
The most complex object on Earth is the human brain. However, even though it's intertwined by billions of nerve fibers...
Bio-mechanical hybrid robot might detect diseases from inside your body
Scientists at Newcastle University are currently developing a tiny bio-inspired robot, just one centimeter in length, which in less than...
Raindrops fossil 2.7-billion-year-old reveals secrets from Earth’s early atmosphere
Billions of years ago, the Earth was unrecognizable from the life supporting paradise it is today. Fossilized raindrops from some...
New hominid species that lived alongside the famous Lucy was mostly a climber, not a walker
Africa proves yet again that it's the cradle of the hominid family, and in consequence the human species. Scientists have...
Toy-inspired “Buckliball” paves the way towards a new class of engineering structures
Scientists at MIT and Harvard University teamed up to figure out what would be the simplest 3-D structure capable of...
Astronomically aligned ancient stone monolith marked the seasons 4,000 years ago
A 4,000-year-old monolith located at a ridge called Gardom's Edge in the Peak District National Park near Manchester, which most...
Thermal cloaking renders heat invisible
Cloaking has turned into a subject of great interest for scientists in the past decade, most likely because of its...
Ultra-speed camera developed at MIT can “see” around corners
Researchers at MIT have developed a new revolutionary technique, in which they re-purposed the trillion frames/second camera we told you...
Astronomers paint a clearer picture of how supernovae are born
Supernovae are one of the most energetic and brightest events in the cosmos, often so powerful they outshine whole galaxies....
New MRI technique allows 3-D imaging of non-living material
Researchers at Yale University have successfully mange to utilize a novel MRI technique to 3-D image the insides of hard...