Scientists have successfully identified an immune protein which has the possibility to stop or even revert development of type 1...

Researchers in Sweden have shown that children whose moms and dads placed their childrens pacifiers in their own mouths, thus...

Paleontologists working at Ohio University have unearthed evidence of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus...

Usually, species are named after defining trait, or sometimes, more rarely, after somebody famous in the field, but every once...

For the first time, scientists have observed in a patient the evolution of an immune molecule that recognizes different HIV...

For decades, the accepted theory was that the mountain chains running from Alaska to Mexico were created from fragments of...

The humble dragonfly is the most efficient predator in the world.

Unborn lizards can erupt from their eggs days before they should if they recept vibrations that hint at a predator...

A magnetic solar 'heartbeat' beats deep down in the Sun's interior, generating energy that leads to solar flares and sunspots....

A paleoclimate study has shown that a huge mass of warm water stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and...

It's been discussed since the 70s - can hydrogen fuel be the much anticipated solution that ends our full dependence...

In case you don't know, global bee populations have been dropping dramatically in latest years - and this is not...

Just 9% of the millions of tonnes of fish caught by China's giant fishing fleet in international waters (most notably...

Paracetamol or acetaminophen (going by trade names such as Tylenol, Panadol, Efferalgan, and many more) is one of the most...

Florida country radio morning-show hosts Val St. John and Scott Fish are currently serving indefinite suspensions and possibly criminal charges...

New research by The Open University and Lancaster University showed that another type of volcanic eruption in Iceland could cause...

Life on Mars The sedimentary processes on Mars have generally been governed by wind, not water - but is this...

Usually, the military taps into what science does and uses its technologies - but for once, it was the other...

A decade ago, American physics professor John Cramer released an audio file which made history: the sound of the theorized Big...

In ancient times, Pluto's Gate (Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin) was a place most people would go to any...

I was always puzzled by the tentacle-like spiral arms some galaxies (including our own) develop; it just seems so counter...

While relatively small quantities of water appear to be colorless, water's tint becomes bluer and bluer as its thickness increases.

Especially after the Fukushima events, nuclear energy has been painted black by most of the media, with everybody suddenly realizing...

Few destinations in our solar systems are as likely to hold life as Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Even though...

If you know your physics (or optics, to be more specific), you've probably heard a lot about Fermat's principle (or...

A recent study led by WCS-India scientist Vidya Athreaya finds that certain areas in India, in which human settlements have...

It's hard to find two populated areas as far apart as Brazil and Polynesia; however, a recent genetic study showed...

There's a lot of fuss about climate modeling is definitely a hot one, with the validity of certain models (and...

Overgrowth of invasive algae can have huge detrimental effects both on the environment and on human activities. This is quite...

The misinformation going on in some fields of science is just staggering. For example, I woke up today to see...

A team of researchers working at Harvard has measured the magnetic moment of the antiproton with unprecedented precision. “That is...

It may be a little off to talk about invisibility when we're not even in the visible spectrum, but 'invisibility...

It's important to understand that our planet's climate consists of so much interconnected elements, that what happens someplace affects virtually...

Archaeology - check. Beer - check. Cool chemistry - check. Shipwreck - check. What more could you ask for, seriously?...

Inaccuracy in the genetic makeup can lead to deficiencies that alter how color should be perceived in optimal conditions.

For decades, there's been significant discussions on how professional fighting affects the brain, but not much scientific progress has been...

It's Chevron's third oil spill in three years in Utah alone; a June 2010 spill involved more than 30,000 gallons...

As the writers on Nature depict it, it evokes the dystopian worlds of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick -...

Aerogels are fantastic materials - typically, they are synthetic porous ultralight material derived from a gel, in which the liquid...

When it comes to social media, we post all sorts of stuff: what we eat, what we drink, who we...

You've probably heard it a few times: the climate is indeed warming up, but it's all good, because the rate...

While taking a walk with her parents on U.K.'s Isle of Wight (map) in 2008, Daisy Morris, who was then...

Great tits are widespread species throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central and Northern Asia, and parts of North Africa in...

ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope has found a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the whopping rate...

So far... it's re-extinction Almost 10 years ago, on July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed...

Each year, towards the end of March, we mark Earth Hour - a worldwide event organized by the World Wide...

Rapidly expanding road networks are causing massive direct and indirect damage to forests but proper infrastructure planning and implementation could...

In one of the first articles I've ever written on ZME Science, all the way back in 2007 (has it...

There is still unbelievably much we have yet to discover from the Amazon. Now, researchers have uncovered two new species...

Physics and heavy metal may not have much in common, but Matt Bierbaum and Jesse Silverberg have found a connection....