Way back before clocks were a thing, people had another natural way of waking up: the rooster's crow. Now, a...

According to a research published by researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis, interbreeding was...

For the first time in history, researchers have found microbes living deep inside Earth’s oceanic crust - the black basalts...

A NOAA paper published 4 years ago showed, almost beyond the shadow of a doubt, that climate change is irreversible...

A new theory based on a simple but viable geologic model claims that over 80 percent of all commercial gold...

The Mariana trench is the deepest point on Earth; now, an international team of researchers found that the very bottom...

When a lion hunts a gazelle, he is actually hunting the weakest of the herd, the one which is the...

The study, led by the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), has managed to eliminate mouse lung tumours by inhibiting...

A few months ago, we were telling you about the mind boggling properties the new material called graphene has, and...

NASA space observatory sends back a couple of mind blowing eye dazzling images of the Sun. I guess I'm exaggerating...

It is indeed a war of manipulation and misdirection, but the main actors are not the ones you may think...

Despite all the magnificent advancements in the field, we are still in the infancy of our research on extraterrestrial planets,...

You often hear discussions about how much oil there is still left in the world's underground. Listen to oil companies...

Ok, so big news on the horizon: alien life forms have been found in a meteorite that recently crashed in...

Apparently, every month brings forth a new theory on the demise of the Neanderthals - the cookies one being that...

Imagine if the chip in your phone of laptop could not only defend, but also repair itself on the fly,...

A new analysis of data from NASA's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) shows that molten rock created by lunar impacts...

A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun - the closest astronomers have found...

Researchers have for the first time conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant planetary system with a new telescope imaging...

You'd be tempted to think that clogged arteries are a problem of the modern world, with all the lack of...

The inevitable 2012 title was 'Human population reaches 7 billion', surpassing anything anyone could have imagined 100 years ago. Now,...

We've been telling you on and on - millions and millions of sharks are perishing each year, mostly due to...

MIT researchers have published a detailed analysis of all the factors that could limit the efficiency of such a system,...

With the continuous advancements in medicine, it's easy to forget that not only are we adapting to new species of...

Creating glasses that don't fog or freeze up could not only bring a world of comfort to millions of people,...

Just a few days ago, we were telling you about the exciting new findings in lake Vostok - a new...

About a decade ago, researchers started paying closer attention to the much hailed healthy properties of red wine. Particularly, a...

The mystery surrounding Stonehenge is still actual, puzzling archaeologists for decades; how was it built, why there, and most interesting,...

Paleontologists spend a majority of their working years studying fossils with only one objective – to unearth a discovery that...

A single molecular switch can make the transition between the active, malleable brain of an adolescent and the mature, stable...

Life finds a way - the red alga Galdieria sulphuraria gives a really good argument to support that statement. In...

Ever since the days of the ancient Greek, people were puzzled by the fact that apparently, hippos sweat blood; this...

3D printing is the stuff of the future - today. It's one of the most stunning pieces of relatively accessible...

By observing several indicators, a team of researchers from Oregon State University's College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences concluded...

A while ago, we were telling you about the very exciting environment that is lake Vostok. The lake has been...

You may understand that all people are different, but it takes a lot of genetics to understand just how different...

To be quite honest, there are moments when I feel that I don't understand quantum mechanics at all - the...

Paleontologists from the University of Florida have unearthed remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians and a mammal previously unknown to...

Within the next 50 years, numerous lizard species could become extinct due to global warming, a research by Daniel Pincheira-Donoso,...

If you were to lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of...

Researchers have, for the first time, calculated the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way....

The veined wing of the clanger cicada kills bacteria is able to destroy bacteria by its structure alone - one...

This is a true-color picture of Saturn and Venus. The bright arc is the limb of Saturn. A portion of...

A new study that may bring a smile to the face of teenagers concluded that not all zit bacterias are...

Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program and the third to land on the...

Climate change deniers were ecstatic - our planet wasn't warming as fast as models predicted it; ha! Everything crumbles down,...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been put into "safe mode" after some files which it relies on running have defected. Exactly...

In what may very well become a historic day, Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University described the first documented...

Braving the weather in rough conditions is standard biker procedure, but it's always more fun when the weather is fine...

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still...