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

A ring of radiation that scientists knew nothing about fleetingly surrounded our planet last year, before being blown away by...

NASA has, for the first time, released a global map of ocean salinity. The first thing that popped up for...

Chris Hadfield, quite possibly my favorite current astronaut has snapped a spectacular photo of Italy's Mount Etna volcano streaming ash...

As you sit in the morning and have your daily coffee or tea and enjoy your breakfast, take a moment...

Just one of the many reasons why I love geology - paleontologists have unearthed extraordinarily preserved fossils of a 520-million-year-old...

In New Orleans, a landmark trial began to assess whether BP was grossly negligent during the 2010 BP oil spill....

When you hear most discussions about healthcare, they almost always revolve around cost-cutting and saving money, as if the purpose...

International treaties to protect the elephants are not working - that's the sad truth. There is no real, practical way...

Japan will never stop its annual hunt for whales, a government minister has reportedly said, despite recent clashes between whalers...

Using nothing more than sunlight, researchers and students from the MIT are trying to change how medical equipment is sterilized...

If you think weather forecasts are bad enough as it is, then I've got some bad news for you -...

A Mediterranean diet high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits and vegetables helps prevent strokes and other heart...

For thousands of years, rainbows were an enigmatic phenomenon that was out of reach to humans.

Despite having brains that are still "under construction", babies are able, even three months before full term, to distinguish between...

It's a good day to be Irish! The Irish government this morning outlined details of a €300-million package of research...

Here's another consequence of global warming: our planet's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can...

Evidence of drowned remnants of an ancient microcontinent have been found in sand grains from the beaches of a small...

Most of the time, when you're sick, you want to deliver drugs and imaging agents to diseased cells or tumours...

The longest creatures to ever walk the Earth were the long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as the sauropods. But why did...

The dangers of prescription drugs A while ago I wrote a post on the dangers of prescription drugs; the next...

A metal poor star located in the Milky Way galaxy, "just" 190 light years away from our Sun is 14.46+-0.80...

I had no plans whatsoever for this Sunday evening. To be quite honest, I didn't feel like writing an article...

According to a new study, the generally accepted theory on lunar formation may have to be reexamined. A relatively recent...

A new study conducted by US researchers has found that a protein called Jagged-1 stimulates stem cells to differentiate into...

Millionaire Dennis Tito, 72, is widely known as the first private citizen to fly into space in 2001. But being...

As the search for life on Mars intensifies, it's good to remember that there are other places in our own...

Jean-Lou Chameau, the president of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena announced that he will be leaving his post...

A new type of lake monster has been found, in the depths of Lake Tahoe: gigantic goldfish; and as cute...

Particles and unparticles Ok, we know a lot about particles - from electrons and neutrons to the more elusive quarks...

Pollination is the game, "summon bees" is the spell, and electricity is the mana - that's how I'd try to...

In a promising discovery for students and party aninals all over the world, a team of researchers led by UCLA...

3D printing is like a piece of future in the present - the number and extent of applications are just...

What you see in this picture is two black spots on the sun, known as sunspots, which appeared quickly over...

NASA's Kepler telescope is on a roll - recently, astronomers working on it discovered a new planetary system that is...

In 2010, prescription drug overdoses killed 23,000 Americans, while cannabis continued its over 10.000 year history of not killing anyone...

Despite some initial worry, Curiosity's drill worked out just fine, and now, the rover has revealed historic images that confirm...

The common caddisfly is, as the name calls it, common. They're usually found near lakes, streams, ponds and rivers, and...

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...