What's the most common mineral on Earth? Is it quartz, limestone? Maybe olivine? Well, if you take into consideration the...

The 65 year-old iconic Turing Test was passed for the very first time by a supercomputer program named Eugene Goostman. Eugene...

Intense light from a huge explosion (a gamma ray burst) that took place shortly after the birth of the Universe...

A spacecraft from Earth is about to do something no other spacecraft has done before: take off, orbit a comet,...

We've probably all experimented it: you don't have anything useful or even fun to do, but you don't want to...

When we think of CO2 emissions, we generally tend to think of air pollution and global warming; we tend to...

Astronomers operating the Hubble telescope have captured the most comprehensive (and most colorful) picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe. This...

An international team of astronomers reported the discovery of two new planets orbiting a very old and nearby star to the...

Would you believe me if I told you that under this rusty, abandoned metal cap there lies the deepest hole...

With the football (soccer) World Cup in sight, many are worried about the negative environmental impact the competition will have,...

Dr. Rainer Krähenmann is a Project Leader at the Neuropsycho-pharmacology and Brain Imaging Department of Psychiatry at the University Hospital...

The British summer has always been a subject of fascination and annoyance, for its fickle, rainy nature. But a new...

Via SMBC20 Optimists make the most of life? A new study has shown that cynics are much more likely to...

Researchers have erased and then reactivated memories in rats, profoundly impacting the animals' reaction to past events. This is the...

When I read this, I initially thought it was a joke - but sadly, that's not the case. While the...

A new study reports that almost 30 percent of the world's population (2.1 billion people) is now obese or overweight. The...

OK, we've heard of tornadoes plenty in the last years. As if that wasn't enough, we've even seen water tornadoes...

OK, wasps are nothing to joke around with. They are the scumbags of the animal kingdom - they're always up...

Extinction and emergence of species are natural phenomena - but the rate at which extinction is happening now is anything...

Blue lava? Not quite It's a volcano, but not the kind of volcano we're used to seeing. This is called...

I like it when people talk about climate change. I even like it when they speak against climate change -...

It's time for another featore on ZME Science! We always present you the latest and most interesting research, but we...

We've already written about the damage done to the Antarctic ice sheet, and how sadly, its collapse seems irreversible. A...

A small island, unique wildlife 1100 km off the coast of Mexico, there lies a small chunk of rock called...

Researchers have discovered the earliest evidence of a bird pollinator visiting flowers, presumably to feed on the nectar - if...

The world has been toying with the idea of driverless cars for years now, but California is really taking it...

Butterflies and dragonflies with lighter colors are bettering their darker counterparts in the face of global warming. Butterfly on lavender.Credit:...

The impact of the first World War is felt everywhere - on a social level, an economic level, and even...

Five hundred million tweets are tweeted each day - with so many details about the location, interests and behaviors of...

The falling cost of renewable energy shouldn't surprise anyone by now - all we're waiting for is the tipping point...

Carbon dioxide levels throughout the northern hemisphere hit 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history...

The genocide had major consequences for the entire planet.

Plants can communicate with each other, signaling a potential incoming attack through an underground network of fungi, researchers found. Instances of...

For the first time, researchers have modified HIV virus particles so that they can simultaneously, as it were, ‘cut and paste’...

The Kawasaki disease, a strange and highly dangerous disease first identified in Japan has been traced to the croplands in...

Growing vegetables in outer space - something which science fiction readers are very familiar with, but in the real world,...

Things are not always as they seem.

I've seen a lot of strange Chinese ideas, but this one is definitely something else - the Chinese government is bent...

While being taller has been correlated with success in life, being short also has its perks: a team of researchers...

Having a small obstruction barring an emergency exit can actually increase its efficiency and limit stampede damage caused by chaos...

Writing on walls is one of the oldest things humans did - people drew on walls in the stone age,...

French researchers say they are close to developing seismic ‘invisibility cloaks’ which would cancel out potentially hazardous earthquake shockwaves, protecting key...

Scientists from the Philippines have discovered a new plant with an unusual lifestyle - it eats nickel for a living....

Researchers working in the Greek island of Crete have developed the world’s most powerful atom laser – fully seven times stronger...

A Harvard study shows insecticides with neonicotionoids are devastating honeybee colonies, triggering colony collapse disorder. Image via Wired. Recently, we've written a...

A world where even minor infections can kill you, where almost no antibiotics are viable, with superbugs and drug-resistant strains...

The entire living world is "written" with just four DNA bases: A = adenine C = cytosine G = guanine T = thymine However,...

The Oh-My-God particle was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (most likely a proton) detected on the evening of 15 October 1991...

A new type of Tyrannosaur with a very long "nose" has been nicknamed "Pinocchio rex" - but this dinosaur was nothing...

Dogs and puppies are really good at interpreting human vocal and visual cues, with previous studies already showing they can...