Somebody in Tokyo is reading Game of Thrones: the Japanese government has announced plans to create a wall of ice...

A 350 million year old fossilized scorpion has become the world's oldest known land animal to have ever walked the...

For infertile women everywhere, regardless of age, health and status, one thing was sure - they were never going to...

The government of Ecuador has abandoned a plan that would have kept part of the Amazonian rainforest off limits to...

A new study has shown that young men are threatened when their female signficant others are more successful than them,...

Snoring is a universal problem that affects a huge chunk of the population around the world. It doesn't matter how...

For some reason which continues to elude me, people are eating less and less fruit - but perhaps the increasing...

MIT and Chilean researchers working together have developed a fog harvesting system which can provide drinkable water for even the...

Pollution is real, and it's a global phenomenon; it doesn't happen only in the Captain Planet cartoons, and it's not...

As we know by now, most galaxies, including our own, have a supermassive black hole at their center. However, the...

Just like we get a tan and our skin gets darker in response to sunlight exposure, whales increase the pigment...

Physicists have successfully reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in an experiment which used ultracold cesium atoms...

Fatal overdoses due to painkillers have reached epidemic levels, greatly exceeding those from heroin and cocaine combined, becoming the worst...

Farms produce food to feed the urban population but with some relatively simple modifications they are capable of supplying significant...

Geophysical data from Greenland have revealed the existence of a canyon comparable in size with the Grand Canyon beneath the...

Usually, it's scientists who gather the data, but this time, they were the data themselves - a poll of 3700...

A surprisingly diverse range of life forms exists deep in the oceanic crust, but they live at an extremely slow...

It has been previously shown that during ovulation, women tend to increase their attractiveness to men (though not necessarily conscious)....

While in the Amazon, a certain pointy fish that crawls up a certain male organ sends shivers in the spines...

I’ve written about our incredible biological ability to gather information about our environment by sensing electromagnetic radiation. As complex as...

What do volcanic eruptions, oil spills, sewages and chimneys all have in common? Not much at a first glance -...

A 52-year-old, part-time graduate student with no previous training in psychology and little training in math aside from high-school has...

Modern humans started 'replacing' Neanderthals some 40.000 years ago, and for a long time, it was thought this came as...

A fossil of a small, forest-floor-dwelling animal called Megaconus puts a big question mark on the evolution of mammals -...

I have never in my life eaten a crab or a lobster, because ever since I was a kid, boiling...

Mona Lisa is probably the most well known picture in the world - it's been painted thousands of times, inspired...

It may not look like much, but this material has wonderous properties, according to Swedish researchers.  The magnesium carbonate is...

Dolphins are simply stunning creatures - they think, and empathize; they have names, hang out in cliques, they talk like...

The Sun is gearing up for a major polarity switch, NASA announced: the North Pole which was in the northern...

To most people, 3D printers are still sci-fi, and as a result, envisioning a 3D printer in every home is...

A new study of 100 private water wells in and near the Barnett Shale showed elevated links of contaminants such...

You hear a lot of anecdotal advice about how we can all ‘get by’ on just a few hours of...

The insertion of one gene can shut down the extra chromosome which causes Down Syndrome, according to a study published...

A new, unusual species of dinosaur has been discovered in the deserts of Utah. Artistic representation of Nasuceratops. Credit: Raul...

When global temperatures rise, ice starts to thin down, and sometimes, it breaks down. When a big ice shelf collapses...

A new study has shown that European farmers used far more sophisticated practices than was previously thought. The Oxford research...

It may not seem like much, but by differentiating between bacterial and viral fevers, this new test could help doctors...

Reefs, dunes and marshes - these are the key allies in protecting the threatened lives and property against storm surges...

Water droplets, coffee granules, fragments of polystyrene and even a toothpick - all of these, and more, have been levitating...

The king of all predators, the godfather of his time, la creme de la creme - Tyrannosaurus Rex (T. Rex)...

NASA and a company called Aerojet Rocketdyne recently finished testing a rocket engine injector created purely through 3D printing. The...

An extremely challenging study published by a team of researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine claims that through some...

Understanding how supercooled water acts can be very important for understanding basic processes during cryoprotection - the preservation of tissues...

Lots of volcanoes erupted in 2009 - but one of them really screamed out. Its unique howls provide a glimpse...

Less than 1.5 percent of our DNA is used in a conventional way, that is to encode for proteins -...

Autism is one of the biggest medical mysteries of the 21st century, and researchers are still trying to figure out...

The wonder material could lead to a major breakthrough in telecommunications - dramatically accelerate internet speeds by up to a...

A trio of papers recently published in Science link hydraulic fracking and geothermal energy production to numerous earthquakes in the...

The world, known as HD189733b, has a deep azure hue, probably the result of molten silicate glass rain in the...

Our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than we imagined even a decade ago, fascinating the...