Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize For Chemistry on Wednesday "for the development of...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence of a comet entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding, obliterating everything in its...

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A new report released by the Energy Information Administration showed that the US will end 2013 as the largest producer...

Even an area so studied as Hawaii sometimes yields surprises - a recent study conducted by researchers at the University...

Researchers at MIT have recreated Mars-like conditions within a three-story-tall cloud chamber in Germany, adjusting the temperature and humidity to...

Faeces based treatment halts the advance of Clostridium difficile bacteria, but a commercial treatment is still far away. Clostridium difficile...

Jellyfish are really impressive creatures, for all their simplicity; now, a new research has shown that the elastic body allows...

Has it already been a year? It's Nobel Prize season once again, and the first award has been given in...

Out of 512 brands endorsed by 100 top athletes, nearly a quarter of them (122) were for food and beverages...

3D printing took the world by storm, and there's almost no limit to what you can create: from ears and...

Astronomers have created the first cloud map of a planet outside our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as...

A black hole is simple and clear, at least according to the model proposed in 1963 by Roy Kerr; his...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used greatly in everyday life, in things like food-storage containers, car bumpers...

Scientists have, for the first time, obtained actual images of one of the most important interactions in the world -...

A new government report by the UK’s Department of Energy And Climate Change shows that the country has reached record...

Human hair found in fossilized hyena poop suggests that ancient humans were sometimes on the menu of other animals. The...

The beginning of autumn brings cold weather, and with it, another type of flu. We here at ZME have already...

A tiny chip already used in smartphones for the orientation of your screen could serve to create a real-time urban...

The pomato is produced by grafting a tomato plant and a potato plant.

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Source Tom Vanderbilt, journalist, blogger, and author of the best-selling book, Traffic gave an awesome 20 minute presentation on why...

Disguised as employess of a gas company, Beijing policemen burst into an otherwise ordinary looking apartment; the two suspects inside...

Two years ago, we were telling you about plans for developing the world's largest solar thermal energy plant in California...

A first step has been taken towards an effective treatment for Gonorrhea - with drug resistant strains on the rise,...

Closed chest defribillators (the type of defribillators you see on TV) have been around for decades, and for a good...

A few days ago, we were telling you about the Pakistan earthquake which created a new island just off the...

This defensive strategy has been used for a very long time, but if you were to take a guess, how...

After finding no methane in the Martian atmosphere, Curiosity has shown that the soil and dust on the surface of...

The X-Shape in which we usually see chromosomes depicted in is only a snapshot of their real complexity - a...

Dragan Djuric and Boris Delibasic, two professors of FON (Faculty of Organizational Sciences), along with advisor Stevica Radisic deliberately published...

A man from China has had a new nose grown on his head by plastic surgeons, as part of a...

Prosthetics have been around for a very long time - the first mention of such a device is by the...

A lab exemplification of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an instrument that is part of the Sample...

A previously unknown genus of electric fish was discovered in a remote area in South America, very rich in biodiversity...

Paleontologists have scratched the surface of what appears to be a very promising dinosaur site near the Arctic circle, in...

It may seem like a shock for many people (especially those outside America) that it takes research to know livestock...

An award winning student from the Nigerian University of Lagos is claiming that he's "disproved" gay marriage through science, using...

"My initial interest was an artistic one at heart, but, surprisingly, we could instantly differentiate seizure activity from non-seizure states...

Hey molybdenum, is it me or are you looking chubbier these days? The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry...

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...

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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...