North Carolina to jail anyone who discloses fracking chemicals
As hydraulic fracking starts to spread over more and more states from the US, the legislation starts to adapt too...
New way to make affordable high efficiency stacked solar cells
A typical multi junction solar cell. Photo: treehugger.ocm Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report they've devised a...
Tiny plastic timebomb: how cosmetic microbeads are killing the fish in the oceans
People using cosmetics are indirectly pouring hundreds of tons of tiny plastic beads into the oceans every year. These beads...
Astronomers find the sun’s first sibling: a star made of the same stuff
A star like our Sun is shown with an orbiting planet in the foreground in this artist's impression. Image credit:...
Dusty rovers and weather on Mars
Mark Lemmon is an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University and a camera operator for numerous Mars missions,...
Researchers create a remarkably accurate model of our Universe and its evolution
The Illustris project took 5 years of software development and 3 months running on 8000 processors - but it sure was...
Why birds survived the dinosaur apocalypse: they were small enough
Photo: Julius Csotonyi Some 65 million years ago an asteroid impact caused countless species of land, marine and plant life...
Voluntary Temple Slavery in Ancient Egypt 2200 years ago
In the excavations near the ancient temple of Tebtunis archaeologists found a big number of papyri in a garbage...
A Better Glipse of “Doomsday-asteroid” Apophis as seen by Herschel
Due to a "closer" approach of asteroid Apophis this month of just 40 Earth-Moon distances, astronomers were able to get...
The El Niño turns out to be more chaotic than previously thought
Why would the El Niño be important for the rest of us that don't live in the western part of...
National Geographic 2012 Photography Competition winning images
" More than 22,000 entries were submitted from over 150 countries, with professional photographers and amateur photo enthusiasts across the globe participating....
Amazing high energy, relativistic plasma jets coming out of the Hercules A Galaxy
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... at about 2 billion light years away from Earth lies...
Vegetative patients can now communicate with the outside world through fMRI and EEG
As amazing as it sounds, communicating with a person in a vegetative state is no longer something we see in...
The Mystery of Namibian Fairy Circles
Fairy circles, or fairy rings as they have sometimes been called, are known to many cultures around the world and...
The island that did not exist
Who doesn't dream of a deserted tropical island..sandy beaches made of coral sand, with crystal clear water, blue like the sky...
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A primitive form of parenting possibly found in 540 million years old paleodictyon patterns
Paleodictyon is a mysterious fossil pattern found mainly in marine sediments thought to be specific of a certain paleo-depth range; it...
Drought caused by global warming puts many forests around the world at risk
Around the globe, local climates are changing. Maybe you haven't noticed it yet, because in most regions this is a slow...
Closest rogue planet discovered is just 100 light-years away
Like in a scene from a Sci-fi novel, about 100 light years away, somewhere in the constellation Doradus, a planet...