Opabinia is an extinct stem-arthropod genus, measuring approximately 4cm head to tail. It had five eyes and a single appendage...

The massive, global risk that global warming poses has once again been highlighted by researchers - this time, by geologists...

A new study led by an international team of biolgoists has shown just some brain chemicals allow seals to sleep...

Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University have identified a biological marker in the immune system that (starting from about age...

Every bottlenose dolphin makes its own distinctive sound, a high-pitched "eeee" through which they announce their presence. However, dolphins are...

The giant armadillo, Priodontes maximus by its scientific name, or the tatou, as it is colloqually called was once found...

During a chance encounter with an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected particles being...

Based on a massive set of data collected from Houston by Rice University researchers, there is a direct correlation between...

NASA's really trying to step up their social media game, and this is definitely good news. This week, NASA's social...

Paleontologists have long believed that complex organic molecules couldn't survive fossilization; but to contradict this long standing belief, some 350-million-year-old...

Kansas State University researcher Richard Rosenkranz, assistant professor of human nutrition concluded that there is a direct connection between how...

If you're in a biology class in Europe, and you say that humans appeared on the Earth a few thousand...

As Niels Bohr once pointed out, to fully understand how a living organism works, you'd have to take it apart...

A British academic has stumbled upon a 500 year old warrant for one of the most famed people in history:...

Look at this map; take a good, long, hard look at it. William Smith created it in 1815, 200 years...

Your smartphone amateur photos could be instantly converted into professional-looking pictures at the touch of a button, thanks to a...

A new, probably significant discovery will be published in two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said...

So, remember that Higgs boson discovery we got all excited about a while ago? You know, validated the Standard model,...

This week, the Obama administration has announced plans to pursue a 10-year, $3 billion research effort aimed at mapping the...

I just swear, science is just like fashion sometimes - some treands just reappear time and time again over periods...

Highschool students whose friends have higher grades than them have a significant tendency to raise their own grades over the...

A study conducted by Dr. Juliane Kaminski of the University of Portsmouth's Department of Psychology concluded that when humans forbid...

According to a new research, the ozone layer has hit a new record low - but this is not necessarily...

Well we all use disposable tissues, dishes, I've heard of disposable tails of even limbs, but a disposable penis? Talk...

As I keep telling people, water isn't an infinite resource - if you consume it at a high enough rate,...

Two researchers from Indiana University have developed a computer model they say can identify significantly better and less-expensive treatments than...

Everything is connected on our planet; things you do on one side have completely unexpected but related effects on the...

The Rosetta Stone may actually come in the form of a computer - one that can speak virtually any language,...

MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results,...

The long debated idea of women and men being 'just friends' has been given a serious blow, as a new...

Australia seems poised to become one of the global leaders in terms of renewable energy; after a study showed that...

Society treats the sky like an "open sewer" - pumping carbon waste into the air the same way it pumped...

Hunters are having a blast in northern California, with a simple purpose: hunt as many coyotes as possible. I wonder...

NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is cleared for flight, and with...

A lot of worry was spurred when a malfunction at Curiosity's drilling mechanism jeopardized the entire mission, but now, everything...

The apparently evergrowing consumption of coffee and caffeinated products continues to worry scientists, and until now, a maximum safety level...

A new study has shown that children develop an interest in animals very early - toddlers toddlers prefer to look...

Overfishing is a dramatic problem in most areas of the oceans, and many people are desperately trying to protect what's...

Our galaxy is teeming with billions of planets very much like our own, a new research suggests - many of...

It's a big day for math wizzez around the world - the largest known prime number has just shot up:...

It was a mystery that kept astronomers scratching their heads for years, but now, it finally seems to be cracked:...

A massive earthquake struck Wednesday east of Kira Kira in the Solomon Islands, with several already confirmed victims and injuries....

William Kennewel wasn't a big fan of water - drinking soda instead of it pretty much all the time; now,...

A while ago, I was telling you about the big garbage island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, and...

Her name is Wisdom, and she's absolutely awesome! She's the world's oldest known living wild bird, at 62, and she...

British researchers from the University of Newcastle have discovered by mistake (how else?) that a species of sea urchin has...

Contrary to what you might think, this is not some rainbow slime dripping on the rocks - this is the...

Gold prospecting's future may very well lie in a Petri dish - a species of bacterium forms nanoscale gold nuggets...

Iapetus is the third largest moon of Saturn, with a radius of about 42% that of our moon, and a...

The (still debated) asteroid that slammed into the Earth 65 million years ago and played a crucial role in wiping...