To my constant surprise and dislike, people continue to think of biofuels as a clean, renewable alternative for the future....

In 2011, Building Trust International launched an International design competition asking Architects, Designers and Engineers to come up with an...

Digital illustration of the flu virus. It may not seem like it, but the influenza (flu) virus is one of...

Picture Source. Humans and other mammals show particularly intensive sleeping patterns during puberty - this is also the period during...

The Earthquake A major earthquake hit a remote part of Pakistan (near the border with Iran), claiming 45 lives and...

Over 83.000 volunteer science citizens, 16 million galaxy classifications, 300.000 nearby galaxies: this is what you get when you ask...

Among the criticism that wind energy gets, one main idea some people complain about is that wind turbines are noisy;...

Mauritius is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) off the southeast coast of the...

Using low-frequency laser pulses, a team of researchers has carried out the first measurements on a mineral called herbertsmithite. This...

A magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck deep beneath the Sea of Okhotsk on May 24, 2013 still poses a lot...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin jointly announced today having achieved...

Peter Turchin, a population dynamicist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and his colleagues finished a study which concluded...

An intelligent trash that can sort recyclable from non-recyclable garbage won first prize at this weekend's 36-hour maker blitz, MHacks...

Take a moment to imagine a phone display as clear as a window, a curtain that can illuminate a room,...

Even in these modern times, steam condensation is one of the main drivers of electricity production and clean water: It...

It is currently believed that we live in a lopsided Universe: cosmologists reached this conclusion by examining the detailed structure...

Boredom, tiredness, stress - they can all lead to a big healthy yawn; but even when none of those are...

The Herero are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa, inhabiting mostly Namibia. There are some 250.000 members living...

No joke - and yes, you can play World of Warcraft, or any other computer game for that matter. So,...

For some 50 years, scientists have tried — but failed — to find a way to use microbes against termites....

Could the Yellowstone supervolcano be waking up? In his 53 years of monitoring seismic activity in and around the Yellowstone...

Archaeologist and professor Martti Pärssinen from the University of Helsinki has made a sensational find: he found signs of a...

It's hard to find Kivalina on the map as it is, but soon it will be impossible - the place...

Instead of digging through layers of rocks, a few paleontologists focused their efforts on 'digging' through museum collection instead -...

What you're seeing above is the Hofstadter's butterfly - a mathematical object describing the theorised behaviour of electrons in a...

For the first time in history, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been able...

Evidence of surprisingly diverse life forms have been found in the 100.000 year old sediments of a subglacial lake in...

The United Nations General Assembly has just released its second annual World Happiness Report, measuring happiness and well-being in countries...

According to a post in the Navy Times, training and testing will likely "inadvertently" kill hundreds of whales and dolphins...

Last year, an astronaut named Don Pettit started an unusual, but very poetic and insightful writing project on NASA's website:...

Patrick Blanc is a French botanist, typically wrongly credited as the inventor of the vertical garden (aka. Green Wall, Botanical...

You might think that the worst thing shampoo can do to you is sting your eyes or make your hair...

NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has located its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission...

A study has shown a trade-off between mating prowess and parenting involvement - in other words, men with smaller testicles...

Ants are absolutely fascinating creatures. Not only have they discovered farming and animal husbandry thousands of years before us (sometimes...

Geophysicists trying to understand hotspot volcanoes have used a process known as seismic tomography and detected previously unknown finger-like structures...

  It may come as a shock to you to find out that the chemical make-up of human urine hasn't...

The more researchers study ecosystems, the more we learn that an ecosystem behaves, in many ways, just like a living...

It's currently estimated that only 4,510 to 7,350 snow leopards remain in the wild - though estimates rely on outdated...

Excavations conducted by the English Heritage have shown that Stonehenge has nothing to do with Sun worsipping and that the...

Though built in 1933, the Fossil Cabin near the dinosaur graveyard at Como Bluff is, in a way, the oldest...

If you were to look at them from the safety and serenity of your home, the gas giants of our...

It's clear that our political ideologies warp our ability to think clear - but we're just starting to understand just...

Many deep sea animals, such as the infamous anglerfish, use parts of their bodies as decoys, to attract unsuspecting prey....

A team of evolutionary biologists at Indiana University has shown for the first time that asexual lineages of a species...

With new insights derived from Game Theory, University of Pennsylvania biologists offer a mathematically based explanation for why cooperation and...

Land clearing and human habitation put significant pressure on local species - combine this with globalization and a general recklessness...

Some 5.000 years separate us from the birth of Ancient Egypt, in 3.100 BC. Add another 5.000 years, and you...

Of course any architect does a lot of mechanics and all that, but he also shouldn't miss the optics classes:...

Ever since 2010, I've been telling you about a group of scientists and investors which wants to send people to...