Nine-year-old Kieran Sorkin was born without ears, but now, doctors made him a pair of ears from his own ribs....

Eric Standley is an usual artist who makes some of the most dazzling Islamic and Gothic inspired art out there. However, hile...

Marijuana has a lot of medical potential, but it can also have some negative effects, especially if taken regularly. A...

Scientists have managed to make the coloring of a butterfly species evolve from brown to purple in just six generations....

In 2004, anthropologists and archaeologists working in Indonesia uncovered what was named "the biggest anthropological finding for 100 years" -...

A study suggests that humanity's transition to civilization coincided with a drop in testosterone. Less of the hormone is associated...

They received almost 20.000 entries and had to select the very best ones - but ultimately, a photograph of a...

Ionic liquids (IL) are basically liquid salts with very low melting points, that are extensively used in industry. It's only...

Our memories are plastic and as such are constantly updated and refreshed every time we recall a past event. In...

Curled lip, keen checkbone, take your pick! These all count and together shape a first impression of how we're perceived...

There is very little evidence that anti-bacterial ingredients used in common soaps actually do anything in the long run to...

Michael Rohan, a physicist at McLean Hospital’s Brain Imaging Center, demonstrated the low-field magnetic stimulation (LFMS) device he developed. Promising...

Photo: discoveryeducation.com Deepika Kurup, a 14 year-old girl who was awarded the  $25,000 prize in The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist...

Photo credit: ICD University of Stuttgart’s Institute for Computational Design (ICD) is a state of the art research facility that...

At the turn of the 1990s, scholarly publishers were increasingly concerned about what had become known as the serials crisis....

Schematic illustration of Earth's magnetic field. Over the past six months, the Earth's magnetic field - the bubble that protects...

Image: Sergey Kryazhimskiy Giant whirlpools or mesoscale eddies, as described in scientific literature, can grow between 100 km and 500 km...

Illustration: niemer.deviantart.com Here's a weird study. A group of psychologists at University of Virginia introduced men and women alone in a...

Texas Professor Katharine Hayhoe is among the American Geophysical Union's 2014 award-winners for science communication, announced on July 3. This is...

For cockroaches, it seems, collaboration comes naturally: when 50 cockroaches are presented with 3 shelters which can only host 40...

Photo: ALAMY One of the most popular urban myths speaks of Bigfoot - an 8-foot tall creature, covered in thick,...

Facebook being unethical - again I think at this point it's safe to say that ethics isn't necessarily one of...

An ancient burial stash containing chariots, gold artifacts and potentially human sacrifices was unearthed in the country of Georgia, in...

Heavily decorated classroom (bottom) disrupt attention and lead to smaller learning gains than when the decorations were removed (top image)....

Most people would be surprised to find out that you don't only hear with your ears - you can also...

Are you a convinced climate change denier? Wanna make a quick buck? This is the thing for you! A physics professor...

A new, inexpensive and easy to use vaccine developed in Vietnam worked very well during a cholera outbreak in Africa, Doctors...

Chinese doctors have grafted a man's hand onto his food in order to preserve it until they could transplant it...

The new NASA-funded study showed that if the icy surface of Pluto’s giant moon Charon is cracked, analyzing the fractures...

The former popular landscape was an expanse of warped shapes, out of which some were as tall as a Manhattan...

ven if you’re not necessarily a big fan of photography, Benjamin Von Wong, a very popular photographer from Montreal, managed...

Electric vehicles started to rise in popularity, but we’re clearly not ready to make such a huge change at once,...

Physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna Zytkow proposed a new theoretical class of stars back in 1975, but it was...

A rocky world weighing 17 more than the Earth was discovered, and because it’s not only way much bigger than...

For 11 episodes now, the groundbreaking Fox and National Geographic Channel series Cosmos has taken a deep look at some of...

Most people would are surprised when they hear that 768 million people don't have access to clean water. That's twice...

The Arctic ocean likely holds trillions of pieces of plastic in ice; as global warming starts to tick in and...

China has officially joined the international movement to make research papers free to read. The National Natural Science Foundation of...

Rising temperatures could provide a short term boost in the numbers of turtle populations (as hotter water stimulates the growth...

Photo: worldwidewhiskers.wordpress.com If you look back, you'll find that some of your most treasured memories are linked to powerful emotions,...

In what is quite an exciting study, a mixed team of researchers and cave divers announced the discovery of a...

The problem with many sources of clean energy is the limited conditions which they can use to produce energy -...

If you're trying to hold on to old memories, then some new, fresh brain cells may be the last thing...

Self driving cars are hitting the road in Sweden! Volvo Car Group’s “Drive Me” project involving 100 cars is now being tested...

Nobody really knows how middle names came to be - but it probably came from the aristocrats. They had lots...

Humans and squids are not exactly close relatives - as a matter of fact, we're really different from squids, so...

An imbalance in chloride ions during a fetus’s development is one of the factors for autism, study shows. Some children...

A new stretchable and transparent electrical conductor has been created at last, one that could finally allow entirely foldable tech to...

Human embryonic stem cells can be induced into forming a developing brain tissue. The brain development process represents one of...

The result of a new study of University of Georgia shows up that the same type of impulsive behavior that...