Drug resistant bacteria (immune to almost all antibiotics) are dreaded by patients and physicians alike. Finding them in hospitals is...

It's surprising to me that this has to be said, but ... oh well. If you are obese, you're unhealthy....

Greening the urban environment is not only pleasant to look at - it's a necessity! But as cool as planting...

The United States is spewing 50 percent more methane than the official federal government estimates, a new study concludes. The...

The pitch of male koalas' mating calls is about 20 times lower than it should be, judging by their size...

Brigham Young University (BYU) engineers have teamed up with one of the world's leading experts in origami to solve one...

It's been previously shown that the jellyfish are the world's most efficient swimmers, and researchers wanted to see if they...

Two distinct groups of crocodilians have been reported to use tools for hunting They balance sticks on their snouts, baiting...

Neural map of a typical man's brain. Credits: National Academy of Sciences/PA A new study which involved the analysis of...

So there's this thing on Twitter (it's been going on for a while now). So, is this the best science...

Generosity and fairness photo credit: tochis As shoppers all around got more or less advantageous deals on Black Friday, researchers...

  Schools in the US are failing on teaching children civic involvement Simply learning facts about democracy (for example) is...

War is horrific. It's not what you see on TV, it's not what you hear about in the news -...

Google Glass is a hands-free technology, with potential applications in a myriad of fields Surgeons have recently started performing surgeries...

Aside from being really cool and enabling wicked video game graphics, 3D imaging is also extremely useful in research, entering...

A still from the game participants played. They made deliveries to stores, then were asked to recall what they had...

Apparently, there's no limit to what you can develop via 3D printing. Researchers at the University of Liverpool are currently...

© Pimpin Nagawan. Magnificent view in Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia in the morning. National Geographic invites photographers from all...

Photons and molecules Mikhail Lukin - image via Harvard. Scientists managed to 'trick' photons (the elementary particles of light and...

The wonder material Graphene - a one atom thick layer of carbon. photo credit: CORE-Materials Graphene, the new wonder material...

Invasive (or alien species) are non-indigenous species that adversely affect the habitats they invade China currently has 550 invasive species,...

  Mice in the control group refused to drink alcohol When a certain gene was deactivated, they started preferring alcohol...

Japanese researchers showed that cats are able to recognize their owners' voices from other voices, but because they domesticated themselves,...

The Permian extinction was the biggest extinction ever, killing 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates Possible...

Chernobyl is still one of the most radioactive places on the face of the Earth, and authorities are working on...

photo credit: Mukumbura Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and India’s Viswanathan Anand are duking it out in the world championship, apparently, without...

Despite all the related problems which contribute to obesity such as stress , the main cause is... eating too much....

  Seahorses are some of the most awful swimmers, but they're still very efficient hunters. 90% of their hunt attempts...

Researchers have developed a camera that can capture translucent objects in 3D The camera is very cheap, at only $500...

Trees planted along a city street could screen residents from sun and noise - but more importantly, they can also...

By now, hopefully, most people understand the huge problems caused by global warming - but most people probably don't understand...

Researchers have found that a very small portion of your brain plays a key role in decision making. A University...

When herbivorous dinosaurs went to sleep, they had bad dreams about Tyrannosaurs. But what where Tyrannosaurs afraid of? If you're...

As much as we here at ZME Science love promoting science, we really hate it when the media misinterprets research...

Chesapeake Bay is one of the few oceanic impact craters on Earth When the huge impact took place ~35 million...

  Researchers have found obsidian spearheads dated 85.000 years ago before the development of Homo Sapiens (280.000 years ago). This...

Among the many laudable initiatives for which Bill Gates is donating a lot of money (including HIV and malaria vaccine...

  An iceberg the size of Singapore has separated from Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier This kind of detachment is not...

A team from Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Mechanical Engineering Professor James Hone and Electrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard has...

Men have noses 10 cm longer than women (on average), even with the same body size This happens because men...

  Most fossils are very fragile, difficult to handle and transport Researchers conducted CT scans on fossils still trapped in...

The climate crisis we are facing right now (which for one reason or another many people choose to ignore) has...

There's quite a common belief that if you provide welfare and lots of financial support to the jobless, they will...

The new drug is the most promising since morphine was introduced - it is 100 times more potent than existing...

A new genome analysis study suggests that interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and a mysterious archaic population was way...

Global warming is real, it's affecting us all, and it's gonna get worse - and we have nobody to blame...

An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, from the University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of Earth's atmosphere...

Geologists have now found the most compelling evidence of granites on Mars - something which prompts more complex theories about...

Credit: Alexine Keuroghlian/WCS In quite an interesting discovery, Wildlife Conservation Society biologists have discovered cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers between...

To say that finding evidence of how life on Earth was 3.5 billion years ago is hard would be an...