This may be a little late, but we started celebrating a little early this year and went on a well...

Something really bad is going to happen, and the Earth's rotation will shift, rotating the other way, which will cause...

It's December 21, 2012. Nibiru, or Planet X as some call it, is going to collide or just barely miss...

Doomsday is upon us, fellow ZME Readers! December 2012, particularly 21 December 2012 marks the conclusion of a b'ak'tun—a time...

University of Utah researchers analyzed the forces and acceleration involved when different martial artists hit a punching bag. They found...

As you may or may not know, we've launched a new section of our website: Science Questions and Answers -...

Spiders are truly remarkable creatures, but some of them are absolutely unique! This time, biologists working in the Amazon have...

Astronomers have discovered five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star that resembles our Sun in terms of temperature...

Deep in Africa, under some of our planet's most drought threatened areas lie massive water reserves - freshwater aquifers containing...

It's almost impossible to believe it at a first glance, but these stunning life-sized wooden animals are actually made from...

Labeled as a hallucinogenic drug and banned for decades after highly controversial results, research on the hallucinogen psilocybin is showing...

Lake Ontario faces multiple varied threats, from zebra mussels to toxins to light pollution from brightly lit shoreline cities; lake...

I have to say I'm a little sad writing this - engineers working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have...

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) expressed his regrets for the leaking of the...

If learning to play the piano while watching television sounds like your thing - this is definitely something you should...

Finding ways to diagnose cancer earlier could potentially save millions of lives, improving the chances of survival for many patients....

Space flight insomnia is quite a common issue, one for which space agencies don't have a definite answer yet -...

Doctors in Pittsburg are stunned by the ability of a patient who reached a never seen before mental control level...

The National Climatic Data Center have released their monthly report for November 2012, which means we have an almost perfect...

Researchers had already known that dogs can sniff out hospital superbug Clostridium defficile from stool samples of patients, but now,...

Looking for the inspiration to go that extra mile, or just stuck on a problem you can't solve? A walk...

Popular weight loss aid Alli has been available since 2009; you take it three times a week for 12 weeks,...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 some 142 kilometers off the...

As I was telling you in a previous article, researchers from NASA have created a high-res gravity map for the...

Women who go into pregnancy overweight risk giving birth to children with lower IQs, a new study published in the...

If you want to find out if you're sitting on a gold mine, you should get some termites, a new...

It may not be the Pandora, but James Cameron dove into one of the most fascinating environments from our planet:...

Polish researchers have found the earliest evidence of prehistoric cheese-making from a study of 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that are perforated...

Using the evergreen Hubble telescope, astronomers from NASA have been able to uncover a previously unseen population of ancient galaxies,...

Scientists operating the Cassini spacecraft have observed what seems to be a miniature, extraterrestrial replica of the Nile river on...

While we all have to recognize the huge potential that solar energy brings us, we also have to say that...

I've received lots of emails from you people regarding climate change; as it turns out, some of you are mad...

Living quite close to Serbia and knowing how they feel about this, I have to say this is really amusing....

Scientists trying to pinpoint the origin of life have been looking at it the wrong way, a new study claims....

If you're a woman who just can't give up smoking, but you've toned it down, even to just one cigarette...

If you ever been unlucky enough to feel the wrath of a porcupine, then you've probably noticed two things: it...

The mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago also terminated most of the lizards living on...

Negotiating an official climate change pact is an extremely high-stake game, not only due to the threats posed to our...

In a significant blow to people who believe climate change predictions are just blowing hot air, an international study established...

Some of the human waste we flush out each day could become valuable research material - a potent source of...

As a geologist, I tend to see the Earth as a dynamic setting, with all sorts of processes taking place;...

Europe's largest minority group, the Romani people have migrated from northwestern India, a new genetic study shows. The Romani, also...

If current climate change trends continue, rising sea levels could prove devastating for low lying coastal areas around the globe,...

After the thrilling success of SpaceX, which is currently the best option to ship equipment and supplies in and out...

A strong earthquake with an epicenter off the northeastern coast of Japan shook buildings all the way to Tokyo, leading...

It was a warm, drought plagued year - in July 2012, farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Plains regions watched...

Scientists working at NASA and NOAA have released an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite...

The Ebb and Flow satellites, known together as the Grail mission are mapping the slight differences in gravity across the...

French people are among the healthiest nations in the world, but even so, their sperm is sinking, not swimming, according...

The North Star (or Pole Star) has been a guiding light for generations of navigators. But a new study conducted...