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The otherwordly new video features one of the two Martian moons - Phobos, as it rises on the sky. Even...

Chersonesos was an ancient city on the Crimean peninsula, in today's Ukraine; the name itself means 'peninsula', and Greeks founded...

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It's the world of science fiction come alive - Swiss researchers have developed contact lenses which, when paired with special...

Pluto may not be a planet anymore, but it still has a few moons. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is...

The Fermi Space Telescope has catalogued the 514 most powerful objects in the Universe, that we know of. Astrophysicists don't...

According to Wilhelm Hofmann and his team of researchers at the University of Chicago, self control is one of humanity's...

Although astronomers have identified less than a dozen potentially habitable planets so far, a new study suggests that our galaxy may...

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Idaho State University researchers have created uranium crystals by crushing nuclear fuel pellets and heating them in a furnace. This...

Scientists from Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have analyzed the compositions of Martian meteorites found on...

Rock permeability in the geologic fault that unleashed China's 2008 quake shows that fractures mend quicker than was thought. A...

The Voyager 1 has truly gone where no man has gone before - the brave shuttle is now more than...

A near-Earth object (NEO) is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth; now, the 10.000th...

Mammals can naturally regenerate the very top of their fingers and toes after amputation; starting from this idea, researchers have...

Is there something that graphene can't do? It's the world's strongest material, even when it has flaws, a graphene aerogel...

Leprosy, or Hansen's disease (HD), is a chronic infection caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. It was...

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have come across what can be a monumental discovery, demonstrating for the first time...

More and more discoveries seem to hint at a watery past for Mars. Now, NASA research shows that hunks of...

Typically on Earth, days usually have a temperature maximum somewhere after lunch, and a minimum during the night. But for...

Astronomers have discovered 26 likely black holes in the Andromea Galaxy - the biggest number of black holes ever found...

Hours and hours spent at computers or gaming consoles do have their advantages - not only do they train reaction...

A new study conducted by researchers from Ohio University concluded that both men and women will lie about their behavior...

It seems to me that we've just began to scratch the surface of what we know about autistic spectrum disorder...

As we told you on ZME Science a while ago, we are nearing a global coffee crisis - if today's...

For more and more people, ageing and clumsiness seem to go hand in hand - difficulties when handling a plate,...

The first known case of a bone tumor has been discovered in a Neanderthal who lived about 120,000 years ago...

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It's not a well known problem by most, but those who work in the field are very aware of it...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one mean, hard, disease. It's an autoimmune disease - your body basically fails to identify itself,...

It's a staple of classic science fiction - controlling stuff with your mind. But researchers working at the University of...

If you've ever visited a cave, you probably know the golden rules: Watch you're head, stay on the track, and...

  Early galaxies were very different from those we see today - it was overgrown black holes, and not stars...

Stars have a pull on all planets, but they exhibit a special kind of attraction towards a class of planets...

Towering thunderstorms are a bad sign, often announcing a strong tropical cyclone - and NASA's satellites observed just that. The...

What do Australian researchers do when they don't want to do their homework? They make a study in which they...

The case of birds missing out on a proper penis has been a longstanding mystery in evolutionary biology. Roughly 97%...

A new study suggests that U.S. businesses pay almost $6,000 per year extra for each employee who smokes, compared to...

Yoga supporters have long claimed the benefits of the practice, both on the mind and the soul, but many skeptics...

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Forget meadows. Forget grass. Forget sterile, monotone parks with no plant diversity. Seattle's vision of an urban oasis is becoming...

At 55 million years old, it represents the earliest known member of this broad group of animals that includes humans....

Benjamin Wegener, a researcher at Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences and his team has shown that for squids, it's...

As bad as earthquakes can be, and we've recently had our fair share of earthquakes around the world, the tsunamis...

The French didn't invent wine, no more than Colombians invented coffee or the Italians discovered tomatoes. But... who did? What...

Hydrogen is the most common element in the Universe. It's the first element in the periodic table, and it has...