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...

The world's longest kidney transplant chain which just ended at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, USA was possible thanks...

For decades, classrooms were caught in a debate between creationism and evolution, and now, teachers will once again be caught...

Unexpected new findings from University of Maryland researchers show that a portion of our planet's mantle survived Earth's rough formation,...

It looks like not all is going bad for Italian researchers, after the trial of the seismologists: physicists from Italy...

Alan Turing is considered by most to be the father of the computer; the British mathematician had one of the...

I will take the risk of being quite subjective: the trial against the Italian seismologists just got a lot more...

Perhaps the most famous thing left behind on the Moon is a footprint, a boot-shaped impression in the moon dust,...

After two decades of drilling in the frozen wastelands of Antarctica, Russian researchers have finally managed to drill down to...

The speed at which someone walks and the likelihood of dementia don't have absolutely anything in common at a first...

Some black holes are just meant to survive, regardless of what they go through. This is probably the case with...

When we started putting satellites on orbit, few could have pondered the idea of space junk, and even fewer would...

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...