Reporting in PLOS Medicine, researchers found that for every 1000 children who received the vaccine, 800 malaria cases can be...

Babies can learn what to fear from the first days of life simply by smelling their distressed mothers, a new...

The geysers on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus have been counted and mapped, strengthening theories that Enceladus is one...

British researchers from the University of Bradford have developed what can potentially become a universal blood test for cancer. The...

A couple of weeks ago we were telling you about a study which showed that not only do fish feel...

Look at this image - what's the first word you see? According to some (unscientific) sources, 9 out of 10...

For 50 years, Raju the elephant was abused. He was shackled, held in spiked chains, his spirit and his body...

We're always in contact with microbes, but we're not always happy about it. However, I have a feeling that these...

This is a reconstruction of the world's largest-ever flying bird, Pelagornis sandersi, identified by Daniel Ksepka, Curator of Science at...

This year, Oklahoma already had over 230 earthquakes with a magnitude of over 3. In 2008, the average number was...

The piglet squid measures only a few centimeters across, and it's one of the cutest animals out there! It can...

Humans tend to "see" patterns in winning and losing streaks in situations which are actually random. A new study has...

Penguins are amazing creatures, living in some of the harshest conditions in the world. They have an extremely sociable behavior...

If you look at this drawing, it seems like a normal (maybe a bit old school) depiction of a shipwreck....

The blanket octopus is truly a remarkable creature. It exhibits extreme sexual dimorphism - while the males are only a...

Ilha da Queimada Grande. Or as most people call it, Snake Island. Snake Island - or as it's known by...

Defects in fracked oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania much more likely to leak methane in shale wells throughout the state, a...

Mima mounds. The Mima mounds are low, flattened, domelike, natural mounds covered with vegetation, covering the landscape in an apparent pattern;...

It's a trend that has taken a chimp group by storm: a blade of grass dangling from an ear. All the...

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

What we're seeing here is an ammonite fossil. Ammonites are an extinct group of marine invertebrate animals which were basically ubiquitous...

These reefs were built by Cloudina ~548 million years ago, from the Nama Group, Namibia. Credit: Fred Bowyer Corals have...

The Moon and sleep For centuries, people have thought that the Moon affects sleep patterns. But does it really? Many...

Chimps prefer silence to all types of Western music(even classical music), but that doesn't mean they don't like music at...

Researchers have detected the smallest force ever recorded - 42 yoctonewtons - using a system of super-cooled atoms. Yocto-what? Newton's...

A new study has shown that neurotoxic pesticides blamed for the huge drop in bee numbers are also equally affecting butterflies,...

A while ago, we were telling you about the discovery of a huge exoplanet - a gas giant, found just 155...

When theoretical chemists are potrayed in the media, it's usually not for their musical experiences - but that's exactly what...

Grüner See (Green Lake) is a lake in Styria, Austria in a village named Tragöß. During the winter, Grüner lake is...

Using fMRI machines to peer into the brains of artists is not really a new idea, we've even done it...

Last month, the Niels Bugge Cartoon Award asked illustrators and cartoonists from around the world to submit drawings based on...

With the finger or a force measurement instrument, no information is obtained about the bottom side of the material. Credit:...

Taking food away from C. elegans in larval stages suspends their development; while they still wiggle around and look for food, they are...

Titan's Ligeia Mare. Image via NASA. Astronomers have discovered a previously unspotted geological feature on Saturn's moon, Titan. Pictures taken...

A month ago, on May 25, a large mudslide rushed down a Colorado mountain near the town of Collbran covering an...

Paul Barton, a 50 year old pianist fulfilled his dream, as he sat behind his piano just a few metres away...

Source: NASA's Flickr. We were telling you a while ago about NASA growing vegetables in space, on the International Space...

The energy industry simply isn't keeping up with what Elon Musk wants to do. Musk, chairman of the solar installer...

Recent swarms of tiny earthquakes inside Hawaii's Mauna Loa signal that the volcano may be coming back to life. But...

How do you act when you're at a job interview? Do you just go and be yourself, showing your true...

There's been a lot of discussion regarding the warm or cold blooded nature of dinosaurs. The traditional belief was that...

Today, Elon Must, the founder and owner of Tesla Motors announced that they were releasing all the patents they own,...

A class of drugs currently used to treat leukemia has been found to have some severe side effects - positive...

Whenever you're eating a fish or some other marine creature, think just for a moment that it may actually be...

When you think about 'gamers', pretty unpleasant stereotypes usually pop to mind. You'll likely think about young kids without many...

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...