Babies learn to babble before they can talk, usually starting with the "ba-ba", or "ga-ga", or in the really fortunate...

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper went to unusually great lengths to prove that hydraulic fracking is safe and does no environmental...

In terms of materials, graphene is definitely the hot cherry at the moment; it is basically a one-atom thick layer...

As we've already posted today, NASA's GRAIL mission did a great job of mapping out the gravitational features of the...

"Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die" - seems to be the motto at big oil companies. At...

50 years ago, if you took a cod from European waters, you'd have to cut it to be able to...

Detailed analysis and review have confirmed the scientists' initial opinion - the pebble containing slabs Curiosity stumbled upon last year...

NASA's GRAIL mission had been studying the Moon's gravitational field for 9 months, with great results - they have discovered...

Black holes are the single most interesting and puzzling objects in our Universe - that we know of. But as...

Over the past decades, what we mean by glue has changed significantly; techniques have emerged, materials have been developed, and...

Mosquitoes are not only extremely annoying, but they're some of the most lethal creatures out there, with malaria infecting over...

In a never-before seen feat, astronomers using NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down,...

The fossil, which still retains impressions of feathers, is 160 million years old, predating the oldest Archaeopterix fossil found by...

A study has shown that genetically modified salmon that breed with wild trout can produce a fast-growing, competitive fish that...

It's no surprise that Germany is just giving lessons in terms of managing renewable energy sources - year after year,...

It's the outskirts of our solar system - spherical particles of rocks and ice, way beyond the familiar planets, and...

When you think about photosynthesis, the color green probably comes to mind - almost all plants are green, and they...

MIT engineers have taken one step forward to the realm of sci-fi gadgets, transforming bacterial cells into living calculators that...

An itch is a sensation that causes the desire or reflex to scratch. Researchers have long tried to characterize itch,...

Rodents are able to move their eyes in different directions, thus always keeping an eye on the the airspace above...

Cockroaches, the blight of every urban apartment; they're adaptable, they're sturdy, and they reproduce really fast. The nasty, disease carrying...

It's the Middle Ages, the 1600s, and the Little Ice Age is striking the planet. The Little Ice Age, as...

Think about mucus - what comes to mind? It's slimy, it's gross, no one really likes it, right? Well, as...

Here we go: once again, Colorado's fracking boom raised fears that something dangerous will be leaked in the water, and...

Well the title may be a little flashy, but here's what it's about: some highly unusual minerals have been found...

Two generations from now, the over 9 billion people which are likely to walk the face of the planet will...

Last week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization suggested that consuming edible insects can not only fight world hunger...

It's the early 1950s, and some strange experiments are going on at Tulane University in Louisiana. Well, maybe not weird,...

People with higher IQ have a much better ability to ignore background distractions, because they are just much better at...

Image via NASA. The Pavlof volcano lies in the long chain of the Aleutian Islands off the west coast of...

A team of Canadian researchers has discovered a bacterium that thrives in the Arctic regions, much below freezing point, at...

Lately, the sun has received a lot of thrash talk for the harm it causes with exposure, increasing the risk...

"Marijuana use is associated with an acute increase in caloric intake" - marijuana preconception #234. The thing is, even though...

3D printing is the stuff of the future, today. Basically you can create absolutely anything, just by using a digital...

Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, 80, reached the top of Mount Everest Thursday, thus becoming the oldest man to reach the...

In case you didn't know, bee popullations all around the world are dwindling. The disorder which is causing this massive...

When you think about a spider, you usually imagine a big, silky, web used to trap unfortunate insects. But a...

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...