So some of you are already in 2012, some are almost there, some are hours away - but regardless of...

Concluding a debate which lasted for over 7 months, the US Institute of Medicine has released a report that marks...

There are people out there who predict that the entire life on Earth will be wiped out in 2012 -...

Researchers working at the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have probably discovered what can be described as the heart beat of...

To be honest with you, I had no idea that this shark existed until a few hours ago; who would...

Imagine shirts, pants or socks that clean and remove unpleasant smells themselves when hung on your balcony - how would...

In 1926, when merchant marine captain Charles Martell checked into Massachusetts General Hospital, he had already gone down from 6'1"...

NASA has developed a harpoon that would make even the most pretentious pirate jealous: it can latch on to comets...

An unprecedented observation of a supernova right after its explosion has offered scientists extremely valuable insight on these cosmic explosions...

I recently stumbled across this study which I found absolutely mind blowing. Here's how researchers did it. They trained 5...

The big news about the discovery of the Higgs boson seem farther than some might have expected, even though researchers...

A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia blanked out temporarily in protest to SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), a misleading titled...

The Kyoto protocol is the only international pact aimed at fighting global warming; adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto,...

You've heard about Bayer, right? They're one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, most famous for inventing aspirin....

German physicists (who else) reported creating a Stirling engine no larger than 3 micrometers across, which functions just as good...

The physicists over at CERN set out to determine if the Higgs Boson is real or not, and they seem...

There's been a lot of buzz around the planets discovered by the Kepler telescope, particularly about Kepler-22b - the planet...

NASA's famous rover, Opportunity, seems to have stumbled upon clear evidence that water used to flow on Mars, a long...

In a recent post I was telling you about Russian and Japanese researchers working together with the purpose of cloning...

We recently wrote about Kepler-22b, which so far is the planet most likely to host life that we know of,...

This rainbow map of the Vesta asteroid was obtained using NASA's Dawn spacecraft and it shows that it has much...

British Petroleum (BP) accused Halliburton, one of the biggest oil service companies in the world, of destroying evidence which showed...

Don't get too close - you might not be able to get away. Researchers have found and measured the biggest...

The race for finding habitable planets outside our solar system is definitely heating up. After we told you about Gliese,...

Scientists from Russia and Japan searching in the permafrost soil in Siberia have found mammoth remains so well-preserved that they...

Mark is a former park ranger who found the world's biggest insect so far: this giant weta is so big...

Chemistry's periodic table of elements can welcome two new entries: Livermorium and Flerovium, which were announced Thursday, on the first...

A Dutch researcher has created a virus so deadly that it has the potential to wipe out half of the...

Somewhere off Papua New Guinea, scientists uncovered the world's only known orchid to produce flowers at night, only to wither...

A seemingly ordinary starfish robot created by scientists at Harvard has pushed the frontiers of robotics one step further by...

Russian president, Dmitry Medevedev, announced that following the disaster with the Phobos-Grunt mission, which was headed for one of Mars'...

As you may or may not know, these are the last days of a huge UN environmental summit taking place...

At first, science fiction artists wrote about it and nobody gave it much attention, but nowadays, a lot of researchers...

Scientists from the United States and Australia have teamed up in a desperate attempt to find new solutions to the...

Researchers lately pointed out that delaying measures against climate change will make them more expensive and less effective; however, countries...

Following an absolutely perfect launch with no apparent problems whatsoever, NASA's Curiosity rover has started its long way towards the...

Some astronomers have long believed that an ocean might lurk beneath Pluto's ice, heated by isotopes undergoing a radioactive decay...

Remember this name: graphene. This wonder material is certainly on a lot of scientists' lips these days, but in a...

I recently came across this interview with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Physics in...

If the current pledges under the UN flag to cut carbon emissions are not improved, then it is estimated that...

The great part of Earth's liquid outer core comprises of molten iron, which is just swell for us and every...

Despite budget cuts, NASA is currently working on a telescope so big and so powerful that it has every change...

Searching for extraterrestrial life is no longer a dream, but a reality, and researchers are beginning to significantly narrow down...

Less than a month ago, on the 28th of October, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP)...

Amidst of all the talks and protest against stem cell treatment and companies shutting down, nature has found its own...

In a move that is disappointing for many, the Internet giant has announced that they have abandoned their ambitious plans...

We've all experienced it: walking from one room to another and forgetting what you wanted to do - or get,...

First of all, let it be said that this is not a post for kids - and for the most...

Astronomers from the Arizona State University have used NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) this mind blowing map of the Moon;...

An international team of researchers working in Italy recently conducted a study which concluded that the revolutionary results claimed by...