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When the first major talks about global warming began, a top margin of 2 degrees was set for 2100, people...

A new study published by MIT revealed, for the first time, what happens inside the brain when you go unconscious....

Bill Foster, member-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives wants more scientists in the office, to ensure a more analytic...

Freestyle rapping is perhaps the most prized skill in hip hop - it is the ability to make rhymes on...

The world's oceans are teeming with life, a new census estimating almost 1 million species out there; but marine life...

Early humans developed sophisticated hunting weapons half a million years ago, 200.000 years before researchers believed they did. Image: Courtesy...

Remember the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? It is one of the biggest environmental disasters...

Radioactivity is still persisting in the ocean waters near the Fukushima nuclear plant, despite researchers expectation to drop. Researchers published...

Law-makers in Canada and the US are making moves to restrict rat poisons based on blood thinners as studies show...

According to researchers, thousands and thousands of bacteria types (some new to science) can be found in your belly button...

Single cell amoebae can remember, make decisions and anticipate change, urging researchers to redefine what we perceive as intelligence as...

In October 2010, China developed the fastest computer of the day, beating the previous record by 30% - quite an...

According to a new study conducted by Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at Stanford University in California,...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have detected one of the rarest decay particle found in nature, dealing a big...

What would you like with your burger? Some anaphylaxis, maybe? No? How about nausea, stomach cramps, indigestion, vomiting, diarrhea, congestion,...

A trio working for Abbott Laboratories Inc to treat hepatitis C obtained very high cure rates in new patients and...

This has the potential to be the holy graal of solar energy - UCLA researchers have developed a new organic...

We've been getting a lot of questions and suggestions from all you wonderful fans out there, so to answer them...

The natural world sometimes has a magnificent way of dealing with its own problems - and this is exactly the...

Is light a wave, or is it made of particles? This question has puzzled since the dawn of modern physics,...

This spike-headed dinosaur roamer a much warmer Canada 78 million years ago, making it the earliest horned reptile ever. "In...

Tiaras, snake-head bracelets and buttons - all made of gold, were found in the Getae burial site near northern village...

“We found that adding low amounts of physical activity to one’s daily routine, such as 75 minutes of brisk walking...

The new architecture, depicted in the picture below can exceed a 40 percent conversion efficiency, and even when irradiated from...

Pack your bags and save the children ladies and gents, it's the end of the world! A group of researchers...

Your ear is a fascinating place - seriously, that's not some psychotic pick up line. Deep in the inner ear...

As far as black holes go, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is...

New tests conducted by MIT researchers working at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies showed nanomaterials could lead to better armor...

Named after the almost all-powerful dark spirit from the Lord of The Rings, the Sauron dinosaurs roamed Africa some 95...

Why would a dinosaur with a body built for running have not two, but four wings, as well as a...

This week, there's not going to be a picture, but rather a series of picture, because you just can't sum...

The great pics from Hubble just never end! This time, the brave telescope offered an impressive view of the center...

The entire Indian population depends on good crops to survive, and good crops depend on the monsoon; according to a...

For researchers working with the bird, it came as a shock that Figaro was able to learn how to use...

This article has nothing to do with science, it is just an offbeat post, and some ranting may occur. Proceed...

An increasing number of people are starting to take their breakfast in the form of a sandwich, be it pork...

Researchers from Environment Canada (EC) and the University of Alberta have published a study in which they showed contaminants accumulated...

Back in the prehistoric, and even Antiquity days, man didn't understand a lot of things; he took every such phenomena...

Curiosity took a break from its usual rock sampling activities and instead focused on the air, trying to figure out...

Researchers have shown that it's genes, and not the Sun which increases the risk of melanoma in redheads.   Doctors...

I gotta say, sometimes it absolutely baffles me to see the kind of complex studies astrophysicists do, and this is...

Archaeologists working in Bulgaria have unearthed what they claim to be the remains of the oldest prehistoric town in all...

Felix Baumgartner, the supersonic man who jumped from about 40.000 meters above ground is definitely a man up for new...

If you think about tsunamis, you'll probably think about Japan, Indonesia, maybe America... the last place you'd image would be...

I recently came across a great article written in the Washington Post which really gives some insight about the economics...

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Well it may be a bit of overreaction, but with the Halloween and all, you just have to call it:...

Vesta is "peppered" with carbon materials which researchers believe were left behind by asteroids gently striking its surface. Vesta is...

The largest branch of animals in the tree of lifes are the protostomes - historically defined by the order in...