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...

Paracetamol or acetaminophen (going by trade names such as Tylenol, Panadol, Efferalgan, and many more) is one of the most...

Florida country radio morning-show hosts Val St. John and Scott Fish are currently serving indefinite suspensions and possibly criminal charges...

New research by The Open University and Lancaster University showed that another type of volcanic eruption in Iceland could cause...

Life on Mars The sedimentary processes on Mars have generally been governed by wind, not water - but is this...

Usually, the military taps into what science does and uses its technologies - but for once, it was the other...

A decade ago, American physics professor John Cramer released an audio file which made history: the sound of the theorized Big...

In ancient times, Pluto's Gate (Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin) was a place most people would go to any...

I was always puzzled by the tentacle-like spiral arms some galaxies (including our own) develop; it just seems so counter...

While relatively small quantities of water appear to be colorless, water's tint becomes bluer and bluer as its thickness increases.

Especially after the Fukushima events, nuclear energy has been painted black by most of the media, with everybody suddenly realizing...

Few destinations in our solar systems are as likely to hold life as Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Even though...

If you know your physics (or optics, to be more specific), you've probably heard a lot about Fermat's principle (or...

A recent study led by WCS-India scientist Vidya Athreaya finds that certain areas in India, in which human settlements have...

It's hard to find two populated areas as far apart as Brazil and Polynesia; however, a recent genetic study showed...

There's a lot of fuss about climate modeling is definitely a hot one, with the validity of certain models (and...

Overgrowth of invasive algae can have huge detrimental effects both on the environment and on human activities. This is quite...

The misinformation going on in some fields of science is just staggering. For example, I woke up today to see...

A team of researchers working at Harvard has measured the magnetic moment of the antiproton with unprecedented precision. “That is...

It may be a little off to talk about invisibility when we're not even in the visible spectrum, but 'invisibility...