There are a number of factors that lead to obesity, the most obvious of which is of course eating too...

General Motors has always invested in technology which goes beyond the automotive applications for which the company is primarily known,...

If you happen to be on the East Coast tonight, preferably between North Carolina and New Jersey, you'll be in...

The human brain is wired to see all kinds of patterns in various shapes. The most common one is that...

In what's arguable the most important physics discovery ever to come out of China, and a perfect example of "by...

Antarctica is home to one of harshest environments in the world, but exactly because of this it exhibit a unique...

Around 1843, on the night sky all of a sudden a new luminous star made its appearance. That luminous star,...

The dragonfly is capable of flying and hovering very precisely, even in conditions of instability like very strong winds. Scientists...

While there are still a lot of climate change skeptics out there that argue that the human influence exerted upon...

The origins of life is one of the biggest mysteries scientists have been trying to unravel for a very long...

Last year NASA permanently retired the iconic shuttle program, since it became obsolete, too expensive, difficult to maintain and no...

Current unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly referred to as drones, are packed with state of the art technology, but despite...

There's no bigger drag on a busy Monday morning than finding your car under a heap of snow in the...

Off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, dwells the Thaumoctopus mimicus commonly refered to as the mimic octopus, a remarkable animal...

Antarctica is the most the arid place on Earth. Its climate is so rough, so hazardous that no permanent human populace can...

We at ZME Science love futuristic designs, but above all we love innovative energy efficient solutions. The latest avantgarde lighting...

There's a lot going on today, besides rabid shopping sprees. This Friday (Nov. 24), a partial solar eclipse will occur...

According to a new report released online by researchers of University of Minnesota, the world's food demand is expected to double...

Europa, the icy satellite of Jupiter, is covered in a thick crust of scarred and cross-hatched ice. Missions to Europa,...

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial of exciting properties, which will allow for the computer of the...

The black plague, or black death as it's also referenced, is a deadly infectious disease which killed off more than...

A  map of the moon composed of superimposed observations in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths  has revealed an amazing treasure - hordes...

In 1993 Michael Zasloff, of the Georgetown University Medical Center, discovered an incredible compound inside the tissue dogfish sharks (Squalus acanthus),...

The orange goo that collected on the shores of Alaska and baffled scientists at first was believed to be a...

More than just a SciFi dream, Paypal founder and billionaire Elon Musk wants to make "man on Mars" a reality....

As previously reported, SETI, the international organization which handles the search for electromagnetic transmissions from civilizations on distant planets, will...

Aphrodisiacs  have been used to improvement sexual performance and desire for thousands of years now, but which of them are...

In a time when a thing called the space race was in full swing, technological advance and cocky egos made...

As reported earlier on Thursday morning, the Messenger NASA spacecraft was scheduled for an evening jump into Mercury's orbit through...

After a six year journey in which it traveled over 6 billion miles, the Messenger spacecraft is finally anticipated to...

While gene-therapy is still regarded as a very innovative practice, it seems like the procedure might take traction as of...

A lot of critics are raving towards the end of the space exploration age, as aerospace budgets get ever thinner,...

In its wake, the Japan 8.9 Richter scale devastating earthquake and the huge tsunami that was produced by it left...

If you're looking for an easy to understand scientific explanation about the formation of the devastating quake and tsunami that...

The recent tsunami wave that hit the Japanese coast this Friday simply devastated the countries costal areas. Besides the actual...

In the wake of Japan's most devastating recorded earthquake to date, the nation of the rising sun is still left...

It's ignorance like this that never sees to baffle me. Steve Pop is an overnight notorious psychotherapist who, like most...

Some animals in the wild are so elusive and hard to glimpse that they're almost impossible to capture with a...

Pictured on the left is Eden Sawczenko, an autistic four year girl from Stevenage, that has had a lot of...

Yesterday night, the IBM developed supercomputer "Watson" won in a two-round Jeopardy contest, aired in three episodes,  against the two...

Earlier today Obama's administration budget plan for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was proposed to $18.7 billion, at the...

Roses are red. Violets are blue. That cockroach is named After you... Valentine's Day is just a few days away,...

A research published earlier today in Stem Cells relates how stem cells scientists in Australia have managed to show that...

While in a bar, sipping a nice refreshing brew, it is not uncommon for people to engage in all sorts...

A week before the UN Copenhagen climate summit, a disheartening new study conducted by scientists from University of Exeter in...