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...

Music isn't only restricted to humans - music skills evolved at least 30 million years ago in the common ancestor...

As part of a great campaign to make the people from Moscow healthier, riders who buy the ticket at Vystavochnaya...

This is a part of an opalized tree, and the rings you see are actually tree rings; or at least...

A strange evolutionary alliance between trees and the ants that guard them has a sinister explanation, a new study suggests,...

The past 12 months have been 0.22 degrees Celsius warmer than any other equivalent period prior to 2013, and Australia...

Dogs are slaughtered and skinned in public during an ancient festival in the streets of Qianxi township. However, China has...

A study published earlier this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy correlated 93 small earthquakes in Texas (near...

Pictures via Hövding. You know what sucks about riding a bike? Except for, you know, all the traffic and all...

Everybody was expecting it to be bad, but it's just so incredibly bad: of the most powerful storms ever recorded...

A laudable, ambitious initiative is nearing fruition: the US$90-million Transportable Array, a moveable grid of seismometers that blankets America. Since...

The world is spending half a trillion dollars on fossil fuel subsidies every year, according to a new report released...

Black holes, the most massive objects in the Universe that we know of, which exert a gravitational force so big...

© A>T The fastest way to get from any point A to any point B is through a straight line...

Why the US is against GM labeling is beyond me. In the European Union, all products must clearly state if...

Researchers have found that methane-decomposing bacteria from hot springs need rare earths to produce the energy they need to survive....

Parents usually don't encourage their kids to play computer games, even though by now, several studies have established significant benefits...

As we were telling you a while back, the Western Black Rhino is officially extinct. Poaching, the loss of habitat,...

Hybrid nuclear plants, working in conjunction with geothermal, shale oil, or hydrogen production could help slow climate change, and provide...

In 2012, in the US, the fast food industry spent $4.6 billion to advertise (mostly unhealthy products) - with children...

A giant platypus fossil, measuring more than 1m long (3ft) was discovered in Queensland, Australia. The animal lived 5-15 million...

A statistical analysis of observations based on the Kepler telescope indicates that 20 percent of all stars in the Milky...

According to a new research published in Psychological Science, the width of blood vessels in the retina may indicate your...

It's a big, bad, lava world - and according to what we know about astronomy, it simply shouldn't exist. Artistic...

The two drugs which are set for approval, simeprevir and sofosbuvir, work in conjunction with another drug called ribavirin, and...

Growing up wasn't easy for 14 year old Jake Zeldin; his stutter was so bad that he sometimes finds it...

Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have worked...

A group of paleontologists believe that the same event that killed off the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago also...

It's not the workload that usually causes depression - it's an unfair boss and an unfair environment which usually does...

Judging by the emails we get, lots of our readers take Tylenol on a (mostly) regular basis, and lots of...

I've received lots of questions about this picture which we posted on our Facebook a few days ago (we sometimes...

Residents in China’s northeast region of Harbin are experiencing severe levels of smog pollution, which reduced the visibility to just...

Researchers from the University of Washington have come up with a software program that helps blind people (and not only)...

Observations from NASA's Kepler spacecraft have for the first time uncovered a 'tilted' solar system, with two planets orbiting a...

A new, controversial analysis of a skull suggests that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus were in fact the...

Just 1 out of 5 children in Britain are still connected to nature, and there's no reason to believe that...

A drug treated with a special dye allows doctors to monitor real-time bacterial growth. Despite advancements in technology and despite...

Lots of children have imaginary friends, something which is generally frowned upon by adults and seen as a bad thing....

A British company has developed colored but transparent solar cells which add just 10% to the price of the glass...

The best way to send much-needed supplies to isolated communities following a natural disaster such as an earthquake, tsunami or...

A recent study was picked up a lot by the media, claiming that "Oreos are as addictive as drugs". Just...

In the heart of Bangkok, Thailand's capital, green spaces are a rarity. With the idea of creating an escape from...

Not as unique as we thought An "emotionally competent" young ape rushes to hug another juvenile that has just been...

It almost seems too good to be true - a novel device that uses only sunlight and wastewater to produce...

We've already written novels on how much 3D printing has evolved and what magnificent things we can accomplish through it:...

Improved disaster preparedness and early warning systems in the region greatly reduced the number of casualties caused by “Super Cyclone”...

France's ban on hydraulic fracking was completed, with the court upholding a 2011 law which prohibited the practice and cancelled...

What tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active hallucinogen in marijuana can do in several diseases has been researched for decades, but now,...

Ötzi the Iceman goes by lots of names - the Similaun Man, the Man from Hauslabjoch, the Hauslabjoch mummy, etc...