Winegard et al, 2014. When it feels threatened, the hagfish produces a slime which is only 12 nanometers wide, but 15 centimeters long...

Factories in China. Image via Wiki Commons. Despite significant steps towards a more sustainable future, China is still the world's...

The two skeletons had been holding hands for 700 years. Some relationships last a lifetime - but some last even...

An ancient Egyptian woman who lived 3300 years ago was found to have no less than 70 hair extensions. This...

We talk a lot about science and research, but we don’t spend enough time talking about the people who actually...

Imgur user anthroteus documented, step by step (with pictures, of course) how he reconstructs dinosaurs from fossils. Here's his process, as...

Marasmius haematocephalus Panus fasciatus Cup mushroom These truly wonderful photographs were taken by Steve Axford. Let's leave Steve describe himself: I...

An extremely thorough, unbiased and eye opening analysis on complementary and alternative medicine.

Catfish Photographer Suren Manevlyan is back with a new set of magnificent images of animal eyes. I say 'back' because...

Ernest Hemingway woke at dawn. Benjamin Franklin sat naked each morning. Beethoven counted sixty coffee beans. Everyone has their own...

Image via Medscape. In many cases, doctors prescribe antibiotics to children, but most of the time, those viruses don't even...

Europa, Jupiter's icy moon is the only body in the Solar System found to have plate tectonics (besides Earth). A...

Image via Yu el al, 2014. A mixed team of scientists and engineers developed a thin, flexible 4-layer material that autonomously...

NASA astronauts will once again travel from the Earth to the International Space Station - under groundbreaking contracts announced today....

Dark snows, dark tides. Image via Dark Snow. Everyone knows that Greenland isn't exactly green - it's covered in snow,...

Cloth embroidered by a schizophrenia sufferer. Image via Wiki Commons A new study concluded that schizophrenia isn't a single disease,...

Felix Salazar is a very talented photographer currently working in Los Angeles -- doubling as a guitarist and composer. Among...

According to the EPA, Americans waste some 30-40 percent of all the food they use. Even not considering the poorest...

Ionic Liquids could become instrumental in treating wound infections or any surfaces affected by biofilms. Image via Wiki Commons. As...

Image credits: Araci et al. Stanford Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stephen Quake, and Head of the Ophthalmic Science...

Researchers were able to grow sheets of retinal tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells, and have now implanted them for...

Magnetic nanobeads in the 'biospleen' device bind to Escherichia coli (left) and Staphylococcus aureus (right) and remove them from blood....

Take a walk along any shore line - the odds are you'll see at least a few rocks with a...

This year has been full of encouraging news from China - apparently, they're committed to their war on pollution, and...

Archaeologists are intrigued by the discovery of a complete and well preserved warrior armor made from bones. This highly valuable...

A Chinese woman has shocked doctors when it was revealed that she reached 24 years without having a cerebellum. It is...

Image via NASA. It's been a while since we've talked about the Curiosity rover, but that doesn't mean that it...

A federal judge has called major oil company BP (British Petroleum) "reckless", and Transocean and Halliburton "negligent" following the major oil...

Image credits: Jennifer Hall. A newly found superdinosaur Dreadnoughtus schrani, is the largest known land animal for which mass can be...

A new study analyzed the data from nearly 50 trials including about 7,300 individuals. Significant weight loss was reported with every...

Olesen et al, 2014. A team of scietists from the University of Copenhagen have found a mushroom shaped animal which...

A new study concluded that there's about a 1 in 100,000 chance that the global warming in the past 60...

The Advertising Standards Authority banned an ad which promoted fracking in the UK - this ad is really something else....

It's the first period in human history when the rich are thing, and the poor are fat - and this...

Image via Umea University. A group of researchers has shown that neurons in the human skin perform advanced calculations. It...

Credits: Thinkstock. For most people, it would seem clear that humans are the smartest creatures on the face of the...

Scientists were surprised when they unexpectedly stumbled upon a relatively simple vaccine which blocks infection with SIV - the monkey...

Researchers from Stanford have found a way to split water into oxygen and hydrogen using very little energy; the hydrogen...

Researchers have pinpointed the source of a huge environmental threat for AIDS patients - the source of a fungal infection...

A while ago, we were telling you about the infamous "zombie ant fungus" - a parasitic fungus that reproduces by manipulating...

A team of researchers from the Aarhus University in Denmark and CalTech has developed an origami-inspired method of organizing molecules on...

Bacteria living in obscure environments use an extremely rare process to harvest energy and produce oxygen from sunlight - but they...

Bardarbunga volcano. Image source. Seismic activity is continuing at the Bárðarbunga volcano and an eruption may still take place, scientists said...

Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. The people onboard the International Space Station have been spoiling us with a lot of...

A whole functional organ has been successfully grown in animals for the first time; a group of Scottish researchers created...

A sonar image of a new methane plume discovered off the US east coast. A worrying report states that over 500...

The physical properties of the ultra-white scales on certain species of beetle could inspire researchers to make better, whiter paper,...

We talk a lot about science and research, but we don’t spend enough time talking about the people who actually...

Graphene, the wonder material shows its potential once again: now, using graphene and rubber bands, engineers have created a flexible...