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A group of biochemical engineers in the US have managed to give a volunteer complete night vision, allowing him to...

Repeat photography (or rephotography) is a technique in which photographs are taken repeatedly at a site to see how it...

China is the largest polluter in the world at the moment, and they're also reaping what they sew. But you...

There's good news, and bad news. The good news is that an extremely rare bunny has been observed for the...

Finland, one of the educational hotspots of the world, is committed to a revolution in education: by 2020, they will...

A chance discovery has provided experimental evidence that stars may generate sound. While he was examining the interaction of an...

A group of leading scientists and non-profit organizations are urging museums of science and natural history to break their ties...

A shocking image went viral a few days ago, with an 11th-century French abbey completely surrounded by water following a...

Australian researchers have uncovered what might be the biggest impact asteroid impact zone in the world - at over 400...

It might look cool, but this genetic condition can cause some very serious health problems.

In December 1994, three explorers made a surprising discovery in southern France - a rumble of stones blocking the entrance...

Paris authorities have put in place 24-hour emergency measures to limit the number of cars in traffic as part of...

Mustafah Abdulaziz (USA), First prize winner   Syngenta Photography Award aims to draw attention on pressing social and environmental issues,...

For her MA degree project at the University of West Hungary, Budapest-based graphic designer Barbara Bernát came up with these beautiful...

This is it - the pinnacle of technological development, the result of countless research hours; yes, it's a tree.

It's about as unusual and heartwarming as it gets - Jia Haixia is completely blind and his best friend, Jia...

Physics on your feet is basically a collection of physics problems (with solutions at the end), presented in an illustrated...

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When James Lovelock came up with the Gaia hypothesis, today also commonly referred to as Gaia theory, he likely didn't...

Designer Thomas Heatherwick just completed construction on a cluster of 12 parsnip tornado-shaped towers for the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The building,...

Some 17 million years ago, a beaked whale took a wrong turn up an African river, something which ultimately proved...

A rather surprising study found that graphene's imperfections can actually be used to improve fuel cell efficiency. Researchers from Northwestern...

In 2005 Chris ‘Brolga’ Barns set up a baby kangaroo rescue centre in central Australia’s Alice Springs. The main goal...

According to Danish and Australian researchers, there are billions of the stars in the Milky Way located in the "habitable...

Leading climate change denier U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has had enough of NASA studying our planet: he wants NASA...

A year ago, Oxford University professor of human genetics Bryan Sykes and his colleagues took some unusual hair samples found...

Researchers from NASA, Imperial College in London and Texas University have discovered two seafloor troughs that allow warm ocean water...

Researchers at Brown University have found a cheaper and easier way to create hybrid perovskites, enabling engineers to develop more...

As we go around our daily lives with wireless internet and satellite smartphones, it's easy to forget that at the...

I've had this book on my desk for longer than I'd care to admit... but not because I didn't want...

There are still many things we have yet to discover about plants, a new study has highlighted. The research team...

When the University of Amsterdam decided to close down several language studies, students reacted; but they didn't protest or used...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Obama administration and California lawmakers have announced a doubling of the size of the Cordell...

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has lost years of development progress following the devastating effects of Cyclone Pam. Widely...

The Moon's geologic past was much more interesting and active than previously thought, results from the Chinese lunar rover indicate....

It's awesome when engineers can take inspiration from nature and design something truly spectacular - now, a Berkeley team has...

For centuries, arsenic was the go-to poison in the high circles of Europe, either to knock out political foes or...

Deep inside the Earth, in the gigantic Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam, there lies a completely unique and mostly unknown...

Watch the video all to the end - it starts off a bit slow, but it gets pretty rad towards...

If you've ever visited the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, then you've likely had a surprise. The cold, frigid white...

Extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got a lot more likely: NASA has found convincing evidence that Ganymede and...

It is generally accepted that our galaxy has a diameter of nearly 100,000 light-years. However, findings of a new research, published...

Recent archaeological and anthropological research showed that Neanderthals weren't the mindless brutes we once thought they were - they were...

As more and more researchers are starting to highlight the potential benefits of Psychedelic substances, one recent Norwegian campaign is aiming...

An eruption from an underwater volcano in the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' caused a 1-km wide island to form.

It may be the dawn of a new age for particle physics - scientists and engineers are working together to...