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...

In 1906, British scientist George Parker Bidder released more than 1,000 bottles in an attempt to study oceanic currents. The bottles were...

To say that Nestle is an unethical company would be an understatement - the company's history is riddled with practices...

I'm not a big fan of selfies, but when you're on Mars, you can take all the selfies you want!...

Image: Raymond Lam With the recent sighting of a fire rainbow in South Carolina, there seems to be a sudden...

China - the world's most populous country and the world's top polluter has a lot of responsibility on its shoulders....

Staring straight into someone's eyes can be pretty intense, and is usually avoided by most people. But a team of...

Television has perpetuated the already classic image of a violent, psychotic criminal, up to the point where we basically associate...

Using and understanding the intricacies of sarcasm is a fine art; one does not simply "become" sarcastic - you must...

Anthropologists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a bone resembling that of humans; the 1.85 million year old bone is...

Whether you're religious or not, there's a good chance this chapel will catch your eye - completed last year, the 7-square-meter...

A research group has come up with an innovative way of dealing with blood clots through nanotechnology. This technology has...

A large intact specimen of the fossil, Montsechia. Usually only small fragmentary pieces of the fossil are found. Credit: David...

Finding insects, plants or even dinosaur feathers trapped in amber s rare and exciting. But finding a fossil salamander in...

Russian archaeologists have unearthed a trove of warrior jewelry of historical significance: the tomb of a Sarmatian woman warrior who...

If you're looking for a home away from home, if you're setting up the perfect workplace, or if you're simply...

We all know that pollution and smog in China is pretty bad, but China has only recently published their air...

Religion affects our lives, directly and indirectly, in many ways. A new study published in the Journal of Homosexuality has investigated how...

Every year, over 30,000 elephants are murdered, slaughtered for their tusks. Ivory is an extremely valuable commodity, and many people...

Taking a page from the oil industry "sponsorship" philosophy, Coca Cola spent millions funding scientists to say that soft drinks...

The mystery of the octopus genome has finally been solved, and this will allow researchers to answer some intriguing questions:...

We've written a lot about how 3D printing can (and has already started to) change our world - but food...

Hydro-energy is clean, cheap and reliable - in many ways, it's every man's dream: you get the reliability of fossil...

The Arctic isn't only for frozen ice and polar bears, it can be also relaxing. With that in mind, a giant...

American Amber Ale Well, microscopic drinks are not really a thing, aren't they? Not in the clubs where I go,...

The loving embrace of a mother and her child lasts for 4,000 years, Chinese archaeologists reported after finding their interlocked...

A new highly infectious diseases has been observed in tadpoles from three continents, threatening global populations. The disease, which was...

Did you know that vaccines are dangerous? Or that eating whole lemons (or eggs) prevents cancer? Or that evil doctors kill people...

Society has changed a lot in 2,000 years, but you know what hasn't really changed? Cats. Cats don't really care...

As a geologist, I'm not into gemstones and "pretty rocks" - but every once in a while, I see a...