It's a good day to be a chemist - a new, super-heavy element has been added to the periodic table...

Heribert Illig, one of the theory's supporters. The phantom time hypothesis is a conspiracy theory developed in the 1980s and...

It's perhaps the most enigmatic and intriguing thing on the internet, which promises an "epiphany" when you solve it. No one...

© Daniel D’Auria. Finalist - Natural world. Smithsonian has just announced the 60 finalists for their 11th Annual Photo Contest. They selected...

Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist who focuses on photographing the oldest living things in the world. As part of...

Scrap tires, which are very problematic to dispose of and can cause many problems, can now be used to lower road...

A Bark Beetle infestation are killing millions of trees in the Rocky Mountains, up to the point where the quality...

A study has concluded that if obesity is thought of as a disease instead as a problem related to diet/lack...

In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built—they're grown. Photo by...

A geological study has revealed that the massive ice sheet has fixed the landscape in place, rather than destroying it. Image...

Credits: X-RAY: NASA/CXC/UNIV OF MICHIGAN/R.C.REIS ET AL; OPTICAL: NASA/STSCI About half of the Universe's lifetime ago, it was feasting time...

A technique developed by MIT researchers reveals the motion of energy-carrying quasiparticles (excitons) in solid material. Let's work that out in...

A cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged using the natural microphone of the middle ear rather than a skull-mounted sensor...

You just gotta love European engineers! They're about to blast away the top of a Chilean mountain to create a site...

According to a new study, spending time online can make drastically reduce depression rates in retirees, especially the ones who...

Over the last few months, we've written a lot about some fantastic 3D designs which can be very useful in...

While there's nothing wrong in getting involved in Facebook campaigns... there's nothing inherently good either. According to a new study, viral...

The Grand Canyon is a favorite for tourists all over the world - but if you think it's cool to...

For people who become paralyzed after a spinal cord injury, the result is usually a life sentence of paralysis. However,...

A female insect has developed a spiky penis which it uses to get in charge . It's a role reversal, basically:...

Artist's rendition of Kepler-186f - just 10% larger than Earth. Remember a few days ago, when I was telling you...

Shiveluch Remote, cold, rugged, and fiedy - that's the Kamceatka Peninsula for you! Out of all the 1,550 volcanoes that have erupted...

A while ago, we were telling you about the Iranian man who lives alone in the desert and hasn't washed...

In this incredible capture taken on 30 September 1994, we see a major eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka as seen by the astronauts...

Toyota has officially announced that it will launch a hydrogen fuel cell-powered car in 2015, but said sales volumes would be...

Credits: JJ Harrison. Australian brush turkeys incubate their eggs in places most animals would stay clear of: moist piles of rotting...

Prostitution may or may not be the oldest job in the world, but rigging goes a long way too. Researchers...

MOGS gene, via Wikipedia. A new study on which a swarm of scientists worked on showed that two children (an...

Photo: Mike Baird, via Flickr. Sea otters have entered a select, but unfortunate club: they joined the ranks of ducks, chickens, pigs,...

Scientists have shown that trauma can leave epigenetic marks - chemical changes that affect how DNA is expressed without altering its...

It's a truly terrifying story, and a truly terrifying disease. The flesh-eating culprit in question is called GAS, or Group A...

NASA will host a news teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, April 17, to announce a new...

Oligarchy vs Democracy Not so funny when it's real - America is controlled by a small elite, Princeton study shows....

Three French students transformed a 3-D printer — a MarkerBot Replicator 3D printer, to be exact, into a tattoo machine!...

A few months ago we were telling you about the researchers from Transylvania, Romania, who developed artificial blood. Now, the production...

I feel like a broken record - graphene is awesome at this, graphene is awesome at that... graphene is just...

It's something that puzzled me for years now: consider a pair of identical twins; say, one gets a job as an...

They not only look awesome, but they may actually save a lot of power. Light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings have replaced streetlights...

I don't really use Bing all that often, but I think that they do some things significantly better than the...

Last week we described a study which concluded that homeopathy is nothing more than a placebo effect -- it was just...

If you've ever looked at a pond and thought "Well, not much really going on here", you couldn't have been...

Many parasites affect their hosts' behavior, up to the point where the host can sacrifice itself for the wellbeing of...

Rhinopithecus strykeri, also known as the Myanmar Snub-Nosed Monkey or Sneezing Monkey was discovered just a few years ago, in...

Homeopathy is bust, it doesn't really do anything, it's just a make-believe treatment. Why do I have to write another...

While documenting leopard seals in Antarctica for a 2006 National Geographic magazine story, photographer Paul Nicklen had a truly fantastic...

The future is here. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as...

Video games have been getting more and more attention, partly due the fact that more and more children (and adults)...

It seems like ever since the first caveman opened up the first popup barter-based kiosk people have been trying to...

Although things are starting to change, video games still get a ton of bad rep - and for good reason,...

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen - a famous Norwegian explorer, the first man to ever reach the South Pole. He used...