The fastest accelerating electric vehicle in the world hits the 100km(62miles)/h mark in under 1.8 seconds
A team of students from the University of Stuttgart just designed, built and raced what could be the fastest accelerating...
The Skypunch – not a fancy anime combat move, but just as awesome
"Skypunch" is the colloquial name of a phenomenon known as a Fallstreak hole - a large circular or elliptical gap...
The sounds of Earth – listen to the Golden Records we sent in space on the 1977 Voyager mission
The Golden Records were the recordings NASA sent into space to represent our planet's life and culture, ranging from the...
What is mass? Baby don’t weigh me – revamping the metrology of mass
The metric system is due for a mass makeover, as scientists are preparing to redefine four basic units by the...
And then I threw it on the ground: first signs of farming come from the middle east, some 23,000 years ago
Who, where and when "invented" farming? A new study pushes back the advent of farming by a couple of thousand...
Skeleton flower turns translucent when it comes in contact with water
This rare flower's petals are usually white, but turn translucent (their "skeleton" form) when exposed to water. Being completely clear...
Canadian fish know how to party: getting high on cocaine
New research shows that wastewater discharged from wastewater treatment plants in the Grand River watershed of southern Ontario has the...
The first Americans came from Russia’s frozen expanse, Siberia, some 23,000 years ago
The first humans to reach the Americas came from Siberia in a single group some 23,000 years ago, at the...
Your smartphone can help Stephen Hawking discover alien life
This week space fanatics were teeming with excitement after it was announced that Stephen Hawking had teamed up with Russian...
The world’s religions: an overview
What drives us to create these intricate systems of tales, beliefs and myths, who starts them and why do they...
14,000-year-old molar gives us oldest proof of dentistry, and will make you love your dentist’s drill
Just as today -or a little less often, as we tend to abuse our teeth quite a bit nowadyas –...
New Horizons images of Pluto hold big surprises for scientists
The soaring ice mountains of Pluto are accompanied by wide plains and mysterious deep troughs, show photographs received from NASA's...
Tiny fluffy sea slugs have Japan’s netizens going crazy, and they’ll give you our cute-dose for the day
Japan’s Twittersphere has just rediscovered (and is loosing its collective mind over) what is probably the cutest sea slug ever...
Science delivers: new seaweed tastes like bacon, healthier than kale
The unexpectedly delicious new creation is actually a new strain of red marine algae named dulse. It's packed full of...
Pluto’s so yesterday! New Horizons buckles up to study the Kuiper Belt
It is similar to the asteroid belt, in that it contains many small bodies, all remnants from the Solar System’s...
New carbon capture technologies promise to remedy climate change
Three startups – Carbon Engineering, Global Thermostat and Climeworks – are making machines capable of managing the buildup of carbon...
Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf mice, paving the way for human treatment
Mice with genetic hearing loss could sense and respond to noises after receiving working copies of their faulty genes, researchers...
Pentaquark particle discovered by CERN scientists
After taking a short break in activity to be upgraded, the biggest atom smasher currently in use, CERN's Large Hadron...
Bumblebees in Europe and North America bumble away from the equator as habitats shrink due to climate change
In the most comprehensive study ever conducted of the impacts of climate change on critical pollinators, scientists have discovered that...
Exxon had evidence of climate change since 1981 – funded deniers for 27 years
An email recently unearthed by one of the their own scientists casts the blame on ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil...
Suidobashi Heavy Industries accepts US’s Megabot Inc challenge for a giant robot duel
Earlier this month, Megabots Inc issued a video challenge on Youtube to Suidobashi Heavy Industries, to pit the company's' biggest,...
The great Pan-Pacific Robot Duel
USA's MegaBots Inc issued a challenge to Suidobashi Heavy Industry, Japanese robotics manufacturer, to a giant, epic, ROBOT DUEL (hype...
So you’ve come face to face with a bear; what should you do to bear through this?
A Montana family came perilously close to a grizzly bear near Yellowstone Park in the US when it jumped on...
Rosetta spacecraft finds huge sinkholes on comet’s surface
Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency. Along with Philae, its lander module,...
The Great Barrier Reef left out of UNESCO “in danger” list, environmental group films turtle-back video to raise awareness of the area’s fragility
The Great Barrier Reef, which stretches 2,000km (1,200 miles) along the coast, is the world's largest living ecosystem. Environmental groups...
This is how the Moon looks under the microscope!
The Apollo program returned 380.05 kg of lunar rocks and soil, and most of the samples are stored at the...
Pause the cat video and read this article: or keep watching cat videos, science says it’s awesome
A study conducted by assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick, surveyed almost 7,000 people about their viewing of cat videos and...
California’s grasslands suffer from drought, reducing wildflower diversity
The team looked at 15-years worth of data on California's grasslands, and documented declining plant diversity from 2000 to 2014...
Some models no longer available: Earth enters its 6th mass extinction phase, humans accelerate the losses
Geological evidence indicates that our planet has seen five mass extinction cycles since life first appeared on the planet. While...
Rising oceans and sinking bread: how climate change might ruin loaves
A research group working at the Australian Grains Free Air CO₂ Enrichment facility (AgFace) in Victoria is studying the effect...
Gold doesn’t fall out of the sky – but it’s created in the heavens
Research based on recent observations of a nearby gamma-ray burst, GRB 130603B, help explain how gold, silver and other heavy...
NASA releases 4K timelapse of photos taken from the ISS – artists create epic videos
As the ISS hurtles in orbit around the Earth, an eternal freefall at 17,100 mph, its cameras, and the astronauts...
Maasai women bring (solar powered) light to fend off predators lurking in the night
A new project started by Green Energy Africa in September 2014 has brought solar energy to 2,000 homes in Naiputa...
Arctic warms, polar bears switch diet: dolphins now on the menu
Known to feed mainly on seals, the images Jon Aars at the Norwegian Polar Institute captured of a polar bear...
Three dimensional printing goes metal: University of Twente researchers print copper and gold
The development of a method that would allow for metals to be used in 3D printing would open up a...
Study shakes answers out of the shaking disease: human prion immunity gene isolated
A recent study involving a Papua New Guinea tribe that practiced cannibalistic funeral customs sheds new light on prion-related conditions...
Green America: how to turn the power grid 100% eco friendly by 2050
Converting the power infrastructure to rely on clean, renewable energy seems like a daunting, expensive and some would say, unachievable...
Tanktastic: a brief overview of the modern-day knight in shining armour
Here at ZME Science we aren't very fond of war, but I think tanks are really awesome.
Seven new species of frogs discovered – they’re tiny, and they’re adorable
Seven miniature species of frogs living on seven different mountain tops sounds like the premise for the next Kung Fu...
Radio(attr)active: Japan to raise its nuclear power ratio to 20% by 2030
The island country is preparing to launch a new energy policy, seeking to curb costs and promote the use of...
Spacewalking in the 60’s: Edward White’s EVA mission.
Edward White, in the EVA over a cloud-covered Pacific Ocean, the maneuvering gun is visible in White’s right hand. The...
Key findings help unravel journey from inanimate chemistry to life
In the beginning, the Earth's surface was a lifeless, hot, but chemically rich place. In these harsh conditions, the first...
4000 years of human civilizations charted, the Histomap
Created by John B. Sparks and first printed by Rand McNally, the Histomap started selling in 1931 for the price...
Soft, squishy and powerful: The Royal Institute of Technology creates batteries from trees
A team of researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University has developed a method for making...
Risky brain, safe brain: MIT charts neural pathways involved in decision-making
Researchers at MIT have now identified a neural circuit that they believe underpins decision-making in situations such as this, and...
Volcanic twins of the Red Sea: Sholan and Jadid
We tend to think of the planets as static, enduring, and never changing. With the average human life spanning only...
Global warming has never looked so beautiful: Glowing plankton in Tasmania
Tasmania's Derwent River has put on a garb of surreal blue these past few nights as blooms of bioluminescent plankton...
Modified herpes virus used to treat skin cancer
A new clinical trial from the UK brings exciting results as a modified strain of the herpes virus has been...
First Hyperloop ever will be built in California
With the Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. signing a deal to build the first test track in California, Elon Musk's "fifth...
Wearable FES-robot hybrid eases stroke recovery
Hong Kong PolyU has designed a new FES (functional electrical stimulation)-robot hybrid that promises to ease recovery of mobility in...