Researchers successfully tested gene therapy in rats to stimulate the production of a chemical which naturally occurs in the brain...

Four hundred of the most popular lipsticks in the US contain trace levels of lead, according to tests conducted by...

Seropositive volunteers participated in what can turn out to be a revolutionary test, conducted in Belgium, at the Antwerp Institute...

Life on Earth started out in a 'small little pond', just like Darwin, the father of evolution, proposed more than...

Based on how the tectonic plates are moving now, no later than one hundred million years, Asia and the Americas...

NASA is trying to push an idea that has been around for quite a while: a "human-tended waypoint" near the...

The financial problems for NASA continue to deepen, as the Obama budget slashes another $226 million from the US space...

Kenneth Boehr was doing the usual chemistry class, not expecting more than you would from any other ten year old...

Have you ever seen a model of the solar system? They're just great! But most of them have one big...

No less than 1 million birth control pills have been taken from the shelves by big pharma Pfizer in the...

For the first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system - matter that drifted from...

In the not so distant future, scientists could be able to eavesdrop on a patient's inner monologues or communicate with...

We were telling you a few days ago about a solar storm set to hit Earth, but as it turns...

Monday marks the beginning of the new Chinese Year, the Year of the Dragon and Chinese communities all around the...

Graphene is starting to show its really interesting and exciting properties; recently, scientists have managed to put together two separate...

According to a new report released by the Chinese authorities, global warming "threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops,...

There has been a lot of fuss lately about shale gas, which has become increasingly important in the past decade,...

Federal regulators have designated almost 42,000 square miles of ocean as critical habitat for the leatherback turtles, the largest turtles...

Ever since researchers started studying the Earth's spin, they noticed that the spin isn't perfect. Many believe this is a...

An artificial brain has taught itself how to estimate the number of objects in an image without actually counting them,...

A nurse's tender loving really does ease the pain during a medical procedure, and grandma's cookies really do taste better...

Using a technique called 'gravitational lensing', astronomers were able to spot a dwarf galaxy, some 10 billion light years away,...

A team of archaeologists from Egypt and Switzerland unearthed the 3100 year-old tomb of a female singer in the valley...

The increasing amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in oceans is literally driving fish crazy, according to an Australian researcher. Professor...

An international team of scientists showed that simple, inexpensive measures to cut emissions of two common pollutants will significantly slow...

The Phobos Grunt probe, which was supposed to head for Phobos, a satellite of Mars but instead got stuck on...

Measuring only a fraction of a coin, these tiny frogs were discovered hopping around in the tropical forests of Papua...

This is truly one of the days when you could feel ashamed to be human. According to reports, loggers in...

It seems more and more evidence points towards marijuana not being such a bad thing; now, a team of researchers...

A team of researchers predicted the next big thing in the world of particle physics: super symmetry, or Susy. The...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists agreed that the world is less safe than it was two years ago -...

Galaxy clusters are the biggest stable structures in our Universe that we know of, typically containing 50 to 1000 galaxies....

Astronomers have created the most accurate and comprehensive map yet of the universe's dark matter, finding it spread in a...

Found in the tropical landscapes of Brazil (where else?), Philcoxia minensis has developed quite an interesting mechanism to feed: it...

Germany keeps setting a right example of how renewable energy should be treated by the authorities, as opposed to the...

Scientists publish papers to tell the world about what they've done. Sharing your results with the world is especially important...

Moore's law states that the processing power of computers doubles approximately every two years; as prices fall and manufacturing technology...

Life on the ISS has its ups and downs, its perks and downsides; but in February, something which seemed a...

It's been a fantastic year, and another one that ended too quickly, if you ask me. For science, it was...

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...