When the administration gives you budget cut lemons, make a different scientific lemonade - that's pretty much what NASA is...

Of all the skills that athletes and sportsmen possess, the most underappreciated ability is a sportsman's mental acuity. While sports...

When Voyager 2 made its flyby near the planet of Uranus, astronomers got their first direct glimpse of what an...

I don't know if you're thinking it, but I definitely am: lizardmen! I'm scared of lizardmen just like the next...

An 8.6-magnitude earthquake and powerful aftershocks struck the coast of Indonesia today, resurrecting fears of a big tsunami like the...

If you're not a dedicated Christian or loved reading about mythology, then you probably don't even know what the shroud...

Our solar system is special for two reasons: the first one, obviously - is us. Our solar system is the...

She was a sacrifice, so you can look at it this way: the Inca chose her to go and live...

It just saddens me to find out about things like this: in Colombia, a ten year old girl has given...

The atmosphere is getting more and more packed with tension between the two Koreas, as satellite images revealed North Korea...

It's been pretty quiet lately at the LHC, despite the fact that things seemed to be getting pretty hot, as...

After James Cameron, the director of movies such as Titanic and Avatar, became the first man to perform a solo...

Autism is truly one of the medical conditions we have extremely much to learn about - the only way it...

Solar tornadoes several times bigger than the Earth are generated in the solar atmosphere, researchers claim, after such a tornado...

I love chocolate, and to be frank, I don't really care if it goes directly to my hips or not,...

A simple, non-expensive drug can shrink or cure many types of human cancer, including breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver,...

The scalloped hammerhead shark which we've probably all seen has a twin - and this discovery led to the conclusion...

The Moon has fascinated researchers and poets alike since ancient times, but while the latter all agree on its beauty,...

The small yet pleasant city of Bugarach in southwest France is flooded with tourists, but the thing is most of...

Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have enabled scientists for the first time to create a correlation between spraying of jets...

All 80.000 items from Albert Einstein's archives, including a huge number of manuscripts, personal correspondence with several lovers and a...

Gas giants might just be the most whimsical planets of all: they don't just settle at any old point on...

Ancient human settlements have changed the landscape around where they live in such a way that today, 8000 years later,...

It's equinox time again, and this March 2012 equinox will take place at precisely 5:14 a.m. GMT, or Universal Time....

A major study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, which involved 110.000 people, concluded that eating as little...

The amazing properties of graphene are being put to use more and more, as Evan Reed and Mitchell Ong from...

In a landmark liftoff, the first privately owned spaceship which can carry passengers will head for a test flight beyond...

It's been quite a week for space exploration and some truly remarkable pictures were taken, here's the best ones. The...

It saddens me to see NASA having to come out again and explain why the whole 'Mayan end of the...

It's really not too late to catch the spectacular show offered by Venus and Jupiter; on Monday and Tuesday evening,...

A Romanian scientist working at the University of Ohio captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a molecule by...

Symbiosis is an absolutely fantastic adaptation in itself, but this case of deep sea symbiosis takes it to a whole...

The largest solar flare since 2006 occurred Tuesday, when a massive amount of plasma was ejected at a speed of...

NASA admitted to something pretty scary: they were hacked 13 times last year alone, and several times hackers had "full,...

For almost 100 years it carried the blame of sinking the world's most famous ship, but now, the ill-famed iceberg...

Cassini has sent some new remarkable pictures which brilliantly illustrate the difference in size between Saturn and Titan, its largest...

Strange, huge explosions apparently fueled by solar energy are detonating just above the surface of Venus, a surprising new study...

Paleontologists claim to have tracked the origins of humans and other vertebrates to a worm that swam in today's Canada....

Diversity is one of the most shocking aspects when it comes to life on Earth, and knowing how many species...

Since the start of the year, I've received quite a few questions regarding absolute temperatures - highest and lowest, so...

Xinwei Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State studies thermal conductivity - and he had a funny feeling...

Ground robots are currently typically deployed by the US military in various explosive-ordinance-disposal missions. However, robots are currently unable to...

It's been less than a month since we published the last thing about the Cassini probe, and the amazing spacecraft...

The oldest and thickest Arctic ice seems to be vanishing much faster than the younger, thinner ice at the edges...

I recently stumbled upon this absolutely dazzling chemistry experiment, and I just had to share it. What you will see...

Women in red dresses have twisted the minds of men for centuries, but a new study shows not only that...

During the past months we've been reporting several breakthroughs in the field of quantum computing, and now IBM seems ready...

You probably remember the massive 9.1 earthquake that struck Japan last year and the subsequent problems that followed - most...

According to a recent study published by researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), our galaxy...

Implantable medical devices, capable of delivering drugs or performing micro-surgery from inside the body, have been the subject of scientific...