China has set up an ambitious goal of getting 5 million or more electric cars on the streets, and this...

Hurricane Joaquin is an active tropical cyclone that severely impacted large parts of the Bahamas and is currently threatening Bermuda,...

Over a period of 50 days of monitoring,  researchers found 2,625 different plant species for sale on eBay. 510 were...

A few days ago, we were telling you about a potentially groundbreaking study which found a rather surprising correlation between...

Yesterday, we wrote about how the Chinese will be selling genetically engineered micro-pigs as pets; the pigs, which were originally...

Publication bias strikes again: because only positive results are published in scientific journals, medical literature greatly overstates the benefits of...

After the recent Volkswagen fiasco which revealed that their cars emit much more than they should (and claimed), a new...

Further increasing their conservation efforts, New Zealand will develop the world's largest oceanic sanctuary - twice as big as their...

Many researchers have expressed concerns about using such advanced techniques for such frivolous purposes, and personally, I feel like this...

Paleontologists believe they have found the oldest evidence of the bubonic plague, embedded in a flea trapped in amber for...

Italy is home to some of the world's most interesting volcanoes.

A rosy, star-forming nebula thousands of light years away from Earth is "blossoming" in a dazzling cosmic spectacle. Messier 17,...

University of Washington researchers have created the first telepathic link between two humans. Their technique didn't rely on supernatural powers,...

Enamel, the hard, mineralized substance that covers your teeth originated on tough fish scales and then migrated to the teeth,...

Image via Wikipedia. Scientific publishing is a competitive environment, under heavy scrutiny from reviewers, editor and peers. Over the years,...

For the first time, Japanese researchers have successfully grown a pair of kidneys in a lab and then transplanted them...

Scientists working at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have created a very specific type of material from over 1 billion...

A group of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has managed to successfully transfer information...

For the first time, National Geographic magazine is inviting its readers to submit their photos on the Your Shot section and decide...

Trilobites were some of the most dominant creatures on the face of the planet, thriving from the mid Cambrian 521...

Drones are often feared as instruments of destruction, and as John Oliver pointed out, in some parts of the world,...

Researchers from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) have developed a computer software that...

The Øresund bridge is a wonder of engineering, and one of the coolest engineering accomplishments on the planet.

Middle Age Europe was a place ruled by superstition and mythical beliefs - at least some parts of it were....

About 260 million years ago, this pre-reptile might not have looked like much. With its knobby face and about as...

The tallest structure ever built by mankind on Earth is actually an oil rig - Troll A.

The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has finalized a transition date from Frequency Modulation (FM) radio to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)...

Fourteen years ago, a leading drug maker conducted a study which concluded that Paxil, an antidepressant, was effective and safe...

The world is at an extremely dangerous crossroads: if we keep using non-renewable hydrocarbons and coal the way we have,...

It's the science that makes you laugh, and then makes you think. It's a tradition not nearly as established as...

The Arctic is overrun with giant mosquitoes: larger, furrier versions of the mosquitoes we all know and hate. As temperatures...

Regular soap is really good at killing bacteria, but most people feel that antibacterial soaps are even better. After all,...

A research team has demonstrated the effectiveness of a 3-antibiotic cocktail that kills methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in all...

Scientists have discovered the longest chain of continental volcanoes in the world, stretching almost 2000 km (1200 miles) on Australia's...

An experiment has found that domestic dogs have lost some of their problem solving abilities, and wolves currently do a...

A massive 8.3 magnitude Earthquake struck the northern coast of Chile on Wednesday night, killing at least five people and...

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...