For most people, brains are pretty similar - our connections follow the same pattern, and while there are certainly exceptions,...

What is it like to see for the first time? Most of us can't even imagine that, because it happened...

Some fires are big enough to see from outer space, others burn for a very long time, but from what...

Aboriginals around what is today Melbourne have been telling a story for thousands of generations - a tale of waters...

The harbor in Hong Kong sparkled with an eerie blue glow, creating a surprising and beautiful picture. But few people...

In the video above, you can see PhD student Mason Bretan from the Robot Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech in the...

Piotr Naskrecki, a Harvard biologist, did what few people would have the courage to do - he let maggots grow...

Divers off the coast of Norfolk have discovered a submerged prehistoric forest, hidden underwater for 10,000 years. The forest was...

The states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais are running out of water. According to a Brazilian...

The big news in climate is that 2014 is the hottest year on record - but the bigger picture is...

A team of researchers has managed to make metallic glasses from pure, monoatomic metals. These metals are amorphous like glass,...

“The Oldest Living Things in the World” By Rachel Sussman University Of Chicago Press, 304pp | Buy on Amazon When...

“Colliding Worlds” By Arthur Miller W. W. Norton & Company, 352pp | Buy on Amazon Scientists are logical, calculated and rational,...

For the first time, scientists have developed a treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) that actually reverses the disability. Dr. Richard...

The Permian was a geologic period that ended some 250 million years ago, with the largest extinction our planet has...

It's a remarkable day for NASA and space observations: the Solar Dynamics Observatory has taken its 100,000,000th photo! The mission,...

Based on latest evidence and calculations, our entire galaxy, the Milky Way, might be a a huge wormhole, stable and...

It's hilarious and sad at the same time: the US Senate had to vote whether or not climate change is...

If you find it hard to focus, you're feeling a lack of enthusiasm or simply are stressed, a walk during...

The magnetic field of asteroids lasted for a surprisingly long time, a new research has found. According to it, it...

Changing bad habits into good ones can be quite a challenge, but having a partner that does the same goes...

There are millions of dollars in gold and other metals in the sewage sludge in major cities. A new study...

Recently, a video published on Vine by Logan Gendizzle went viral. The video claims to show what the guitar strings...

I recently came across this really great infographic with the space events of 2015. This list is of course not...

Using a new X-Ray technique, archaeologists may be able to read the words from the charred, rolled up scrolls that...

After a continuous decline in numbers, tigers are finally getting some good news. Indian authorities have announced that the number...

Even crippled, NASA's Kepler telescope makes awesome findings: using data acquired previously, the telescope discovered three planets just a little bigger...

What do you do if you need to catch your own food... but you're just not fast enough? That's the...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is getting closer to Ceres - the largest object from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter....

We like big butts and I know why: because it helps babies develop their brains properly. Researchers have found that...

Inspired from mud daubers (a species of wasp), designer Massimo Moretti managed to develop a new 3D printing technology for...

In 2014, Germany installed 543 offshore wind turbines, reaching a capacity of 2.35 gigawatts (GW), getting closer to their plans...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way to enlarge and map brain samples. This inexpensive...

Scientists have observed a massive burst of radio waves, helping them narrow down the potential sources of these huge bursts...

To scale, the Earth's crust is thinner than an apple's skin.

German researchers have designed shoe devices which harvest power as you walk. The technology could be used to power wearable...

Curiosity is preparing for its second drill on Mars - its eyeing a rock which may have a salty story...

A recent study has shown that no matter the culture, circumcised boys have a significantly larger chance of developing autism...

Astronomers hunting for habitable Earth-like planets now believe that the best place to look is not around stars like our...

In 2009, photographer Jimmy Nelson set out on a journey to document the ‘world’s last indigenous cultures’. He took a...

3D printing is just as cool as it is useful - as designed John Edmark. These spinning sculptures only become animated...

Forget potato clocks - this is the real deal. Plant-e, a start-up company in the Netherlands created promising new technology...

For decades, astronomers have believed that meteorites are the building blocks of our solar system - the lego blocks for...

Most kids believe that human and animal characteristics are innate - that is, looks, personality and language are intrinsic, inherited,...

Three public parks will cover an Autobahn (highway) that passes through the city of Hamburg, in Germany. The 8,000-mile road network...

China's has reached a new milestone in its space program - its latest spacecraft service module has entered orbit around the...

Having a smart strategy doesn't require a brain, a new study has shown. Researchers found an insect-eating plant from Borneo...

The people in charge of funding for NASA and environmental research, Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Inhofe, have a...

America's young scientists are constantly losing the battle to receive more funding. They're losing research dollars, leaving research altogether and...

While this study may seem hilariously obvious at first, it was actually necessary. When Mormon religion meets homosexuality, the results...