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....

There's few things I can think of that sound scarier that a genetically modified version of herpes simplex virus type...

Almost always I happen to discuss global warming, something that often comes up. Still, the Earth was hotter in its...

This is not really news, but it's so awesome I just had to share it. Astronomers in England have discovered...

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found a layer of liquefied molten rock in Earth's...

I always find it funny when something says "zero fat", but has tons of sugar in it. Sugar is addictive,...

Researchers find out new species all the time, but really, when do they ever find a creature that looks like...

The fearsome monster that inspired Greek and Norse mythology was once driven almost to extinction, facing a genetic bottleneck event...

If you still don't know what graphene is, you'd better learn pretty soon - because it's the stuff of the...

To boldly go where no man has gone before: a spacecraft launched from Earth, Voyager I has pushed into the...

Recently, a big drop in swallow road-kill numbers was observed, without humans changing anything on their part. So biologists set...

Researchers have managed to take skin cells from monkeys, reverse engineer them into stem cells, and then transplant into the...

I really liked New York's mayor Bloomberg campaign of limiting sugary drink consumption, but that didn't really work out as...

I had the chance to witness, on several occasions, how bears change their behaviors when people feed them (which they...

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,...