As a new investigation showed today, the scientists of the biggest oil company in the world, Exxon Mobil knew about...

According to a new report by the WWF, we're very close to losing fish species that are not only important...

Scientists have genetically modified yeast to produce the main psychoactive substance in marijuana, THC. Responsible for most of weed's effects...

Researchers at Purdue University in the US have developed a new tool for Android users that could increase your battery...

A 28-year old who has been paralyzed for more than a decade following a spinal cord injury has become the first person...

Leafcutter ants in South America grow fungus as crops, this has been known for quite a while. But their crops...

They say that if you want to conquer a woman's heart, you first have to make her laugh, and the...

An English historian has come across the "F word" in a court case dating back to 1310, making it the...

According to a new study published in Nature Climate Change, the snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains has reached the...

Temari (手まり?) balls are an ancient form of art that originated in China and got was introduced to Japan around...

The world is heating up, that's no longer up for debate, but there are many ways through which we can...

Motivated by the love for their native lands and armed with bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous...

The gargantuan cluster is 9.8 billion light years away from us, houses at least 27 galaxies and has a combined...

The Antarctic Ocean has been sucking more and more carbon dioxide - and this is both good news and bad...

German researchers from the University of Tubingen have devised an algorithm that analyzes a painting and then applies that style of...

Three different ways to breathe: Mammals, birds and insects breathe in different ways, as exemplified above. Humans, as mammals, inhale...

Almost 30 delegates were rushed to a hospital in Germany, suffering from hallucinations and cramps. The "alternative medicine conference" went...

A new study shows that evolution's burden is distinctly visible on our shoulders - literally. Our shoulders are surprisingly similar...

Today's Spain was close to Greenland, Tibet and Australia were neighbors, and Africa and South America were closely hugging -...

We all have a hobby. Reddit user's -rico hobby is collecting factory GIFs. You know, the 'How it's Made' kind of GIFs,...

It's one of those things that sounds almost too surreal to be true: for more than a decade, a broken...

Lawmakers from the state of California have passed a law banning the sale of all ivory and rhinoceros horn products in...

When life gives you wara (rice straw), make... wara dinosaurs!

We see this too often - loads and loads of discarded books in storage rooms, on the sidewalk, even in...

Image via Wikipedia. These brownish hills are actually limestone mounds in Bohol province in the Philippines. They are normally covered by...

Recently, we wrote an article about the biggest tree census ever conducted, and the results were pretty grim. Sure, there...

There are so many scientific journals out there, it's almost impossible for a newcomer to draw attention; but this one...

An intriguing signal reported at the LHC might signal some "cracks" in the Standard Model - the theory which describes...

Calm and calculated - a chimp at a Dutch zoo took down a drone, squashing it with a tree branch....

As soon as the phone starts ringing, these ants have a military-like reaction, forming a circle around the device. But...

A new studied explore the possibility of unprecedented catastrophic storms - storms so bad that there's no recorded precedent in the...

Today, the Earth has approximately 3 trillion trees left standing - about 422 per person - but we've already cut...

Recently, I've become quite a fan of vertical farms. The principle is simple: instead of growing things in fields, you cultivate plant...

Scientists from the Smithsonian have a surprising fossil dating about 6 million years old. The fossil seems to have been...

It happens to all of us. You're in the supermarket, you're buying vegetables and produce, and you're faced with the...

The Dutch want clean energy, and they've made that abundantly clear when 886 citizens sued their government to reduce CO2 emissions;...

It's been a while, but we're back with one of our favorite features - This Week in Science! If you've...

A city like no other will be built deep in the New Mexico desert. The brand new city will feature...

For the first time, aggressive breast, lung and bladder cancer have been neutralized and turned back to normal cells, prevented...

Robotics has developed tremendously in recent years, and will almost surely continue to do so in the future. We have...

Picking a mate is one of the most important decisions anyone (human or animal) makes in a lifetime, so it's...

Although we've yet to discover life forms on any other planet, astronomers are confident that not only we'll be able...

Numerous academic journals often post intriguing and challenging psychological studies - but according to a new, massive review, we should take...

For millennia, they've been the uncontested kings of the mountains, hunting prey up to three times bigger than them.

Scientists have reported the break of a huge part of Jakobshavn Glacier, one of the largest ones in Greenland. A...

The officials of Lake Havasu have taken a laudable measure: they're offering free mussel decontamination for boats, in an attempt...

Mate Tea is one of the more uncommon and special teas you can have. Not exactly a tea, it's been...

Image via Houston Museum of Naturel Science. This is a fossilized in-ground Stegosaurus currently exposed at the Houston Museum of Natural...

Inventions are at the very core of human development, and quite often, the scope of the invention is not easy...

Spotting wildlife, especially species as elusive as the blue whale, can be extremely time consuming and at times frustrating. But...