Two different Philae instruments, known as Ptolemy and COSAC (Cometary Sampling and Composition), hunted for organic compounds— the building blocks...

A team of students from the University of Stuttgart just designed, built and raced what could be the fastest accelerating...

"Skypunch" is the colloquial name of a phenomenon known as a Fallstreak hole - a large circular or elliptical gap...

The Golden Records were the recordings NASA sent into space to represent our planet's life and culture, ranging from the...

The metric system is due for a mass makeover, as scientists are preparing to redefine four basic units by the...

Who, where and when "invented" farming? A new study pushes back the advent of farming by a couple of thousand...

This rare flower's petals are usually white, but turn translucent (their "skeleton" form) when exposed to water. Being completely clear...

New research shows that wastewater discharged from wastewater treatment plants in the Grand River watershed of southern Ontario has the...

The first humans to reach the Americas came from Siberia in a single group some 23,000 years ago, at the...

This week space fanatics were teeming with excitement after it was announced that Stephen Hawking had teamed up with Russian...

What drives us to create these intricate systems of tales, beliefs and myths, who starts them and why do they...

Just as today -or a little less often, as we tend to abuse our teeth quite a bit nowadyas –...

The soaring ice mountains of Pluto are accompanied by wide plains and mysterious deep troughs, show photographs received from NASA's...

Japan’s Twittersphere has just rediscovered (and is loosing its collective mind over) what is probably the cutest sea slug ever...

The unexpectedly delicious new creation is actually a new strain of red marine algae named dulse. It's packed full of...

It is similar to the asteroid belt, in that it contains many small bodies, all remnants from the Solar System’s...

Three startups – Carbon Engineering, Global Thermostat and Climeworks – are making machines capable of managing the buildup of carbon...

Mice with genetic hearing loss could sense and respond to noises after receiving working copies of their faulty genes, researchers...

After taking a short break in activity to be upgraded, the biggest atom smasher currently in use, CERN's Large Hadron...

In the most comprehensive study ever conducted of the impacts of climate change on critical pollinators, scientists have discovered that...

An email recently unearthed by one of the their own scientists casts the blame on ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil...

Earlier this month, Megabots Inc issued a video challenge on Youtube to Suidobashi Heavy Industries, to pit the company's' biggest,...

A Montana family came perilously close to a grizzly bear near Yellowstone Park in the US when it jumped on...

Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency. Along with Philae, its lander module,...

The Great Barrier Reef, which stretches 2,000km (1,200 miles) along the coast, is the world's largest living ecosystem. Environmental groups...

The Apollo program returned 380.05 kg of lunar rocks and soil, and most of the samples are stored at the...

A study conducted by assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick, surveyed almost 7,000 people about their viewing of cat videos and...

The team looked at 15-years worth of data on California's grasslands, and documented declining plant diversity from 2000 to 2014...

Geological evidence indicates that our planet has seen five mass extinction cycles since life first appeared on the planet. While...

A research group working at the Australian Grains Free Air CO₂ Enrichment facility (AgFace) in Victoria is studying the effect...

Research based on recent observations of a nearby gamma-ray burst, GRB 130603B, help explain how gold, silver and other heavy...

As the ISS hurtles in orbit around the Earth, an eternal freefall at 17,100 mph, its cameras, and the astronauts...

A new project started by Green Energy Africa in September 2014 has brought solar energy to 2,000 homes in Naiputa...

Known to feed mainly on seals, the images Jon Aars at the Norwegian Polar Institute captured of a polar bear...

The development of a method that would allow for metals to be used in 3D printing would open up a...

A recent study involving a Papua New Guinea tribe that practiced cannibalistic funeral customs sheds new light on prion-related conditions...

Converting the power infrastructure to rely on clean, renewable energy seems like a daunting, expensive and some would say, unachievable...

Here at ZME Science we aren't very fond of war, but I think tanks are really awesome.

Seven miniature species of frogs living on seven different mountain tops sounds like the premise for the next Kung Fu...

The island country is preparing to launch a new energy policy, seeking to curb costs and promote the use of...

Edward White, in the EVA over a cloud-covered Pacific Ocean, the maneuvering gun is visible in White’s right hand. The...

In the beginning, the Earth's surface was a lifeless, hot, but chemically rich place. In these harsh conditions, the first...

Created by John B. Sparks and first printed by Rand McNally, the Histomap started selling in 1931 for the price...

A team of researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University has developed a method for making...

Researchers at MIT have now identified a neural circuit that they believe underpins decision-making in situations such as this, and...

We tend to think of the planets as static, enduring, and never changing. With the average human life spanning only...

Tasmania's Derwent River has put on a garb of surreal blue these past few nights as blooms of bioluminescent plankton...

A new clinical trial from the UK brings exciting results as a modified strain of the herpes virus has been...

With the Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. signing a deal to build the first test track in California, Elon Musk's "fifth...