Hubble captures mind blowing footage of stars unleashing supersonic jets
Using 14 years of images put together, astronomers have managed to animate the fantastic chaos that takes place inside the...
Hurricane Irene and the staggering costs of global warming
Hurricane Irene is believed to be the 10th billion dollar disaster of 2011, which makes it a new record holder,...
Anti-cancer virus shows promise
An engineered virus injected directly in the patient's blood has shown some remarkable promise in targeting and destroying cancer cells,...
Ancient human tool use much earlier than thought!
Humans might have started using sophisticated tools some 1.76 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed. This has been...
Japanese breakthrough can make wind power cheaper than nuclear
A surprising innovation in wind turbine design named a 'wind lens' could triple the output of energy generated by wind,...
Shocking new details of US STD experiments in Guatemala
During the 1940s, the US conducted a series of incredibly unethical and disturbing experiments regarding sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala,...
CERN scientists claim the Higgs boson is excluded with a 95% possibility
Stephen Hawking may have just won the most outrageous bet in physics history, a few years ago, when he claimed...
Space Station may be in danger if astronauts are evacuated temporarily
A few days ago we were telling you about the possibility of the International Space Station being temporarily evacuated, given...
Hurricane Irene looks scary even from outer space, astronauts say
Hurricane Irene is shredding down the US East Coast, growing to be larger and more dangerous than meterologists have predicted....
Al Gore: Global warming skeptics are this generation’s racists
Whether you like him or not, you have to admit that he has been fighting for a noble and important...
Underground river discovered 4km beneath the Amazon – but it’s not quite a river
Starting yesterday, the whole world has been abuzz about the giant river discovered 4 kilometers beneath the Amazon, ranging from...
King Arthur’s legendary round table may have been found in Scotland
The King's Knot, a geometrical earthwork located in the royal gardens near Sterlin castle has been covered in mystery and...
NASA discovers coolest stars ever
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has offered data about the coolest stars ever found until now, stars which are...
Black hole caught eating a star
For the first time in human history we have witnessed a black hole in the act of 'eating' a star...
Missing link finally found! Beer’s missing link that is
For men everywhere beer lovers everywhere, yeast is probably the best microorganism there is, because it is used in one...
Scientists estimate how many species exist, and why this matters
As the saying goes, there are plenty of fish in the sea, but just how many, exactly? We are still...
Rats not responsible for black plague
A recent study has shown that the plague spread so quickly that the carriers couldn't have been rats, as is...
Russia will build world’s first space hotel
Russia's space program seems do be doing quite well, which is more than we can say about other countries at...
Arctic sea resumes massive melting
There's only a month until the melt season theoretically melts and the refreezing time begins, but until then, the polar...
Meditation stronger than morphine and drugs
Meditation can have pain reliefing effects much greater than even morphine, one of the strongest drugs, according to a recent...
33.000 year old dog skull gives earliest evidence of domestication
A dog skull recently found in the Altai mountains in Siberia, Russia shows the earliest signs of domestication ever to...
How much sugar there is in what you’re eating
You might think you're eating healthy and avoiding sugar - but do you even have a clue what's hidden in...
Researchers create artificial lung that works on air, not oxygen
Researchers from Cleveland have managed to create an artificial lung that reaches an efficiency comparable to that of the real...
Rainforest plant evolved beacon for pollinating bats
A lot of attenton has been given to plants that visually attract pollinating bees, through bright colours and spectacular designs,...
A novel way to generate electricity
In the evergrowing search for new energy sources, scientists have started searching for more simple solutions, and what they found...
Earth’s companion found at last – the Trojan asteroid
A long sought after Trojan asteroid has been finally found ! Trojan asteroids share almost the same orbit as Earth,...
Dolphin’s sixth sense helps them detect electric fields
Dolphins are absolutely amazing creatures, smarter beyond whatever you might think, and with a heart of gold. But now, researchers...
Pluto gets a new moonand still isn’t a planet
All eyes seem to be pointed on Jupiter and Mars these days, with NASA probes being planned for both of...
Icy moon rains water on Saturn
For the past 14 years, astronomers have been scratching their heads trying to find out just where does the water...
Scientists learn startling fact about sugar
In what is a slap in the face of science, scientists at the University of Illinois have demonstrated that in...
Shorties: 3.7 million year old Australopithecus footprints show ‘human walking’ began much earlier than believed
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have found ancient footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania, suggesting the fact that human-like features of...
Lost 1967 spacecraft found on the Moon
NASA astronomers believe they have found a long lost space probe from the 1960s, the one which took "the picture...
Astronomers close in on star’s last breath
For the first time, astronomers have been able to zoom in on the last gasps of a dying star in...
Humanity at its finest: Japan elderly offer to clean up nuclear waste
Yasuteru Yamada is a man just like any other, except he isn't just like any other. "Let the young rebuild...
Big oil companies pay to eliminate environmental laws
Exxon and Koch, two of the biggest oil companies in the business are paying to write state legislation repealing climate...
The new safe face of nuclear energy
There seems to be a global trend against atomic energy, even though coal is much, much more dangerous in the...
Even the best liars can’t suppress all their facial expresions
Mark Frank has been studying the faces of people lying when the stakes are high for over two decades, being...
CalTech soup displays brainlike behaviour
Researchers from the CalTech University have managed to create the first artificial neural network from DNA, a circuit built out...
Atlantis lands, ending 30 years of space program
In what can only be described as an emotional moment, the space shuttle Atlantis landed before dawn at Kennedy Space...
Neural signature of mental time travel
Pretty much everyone has experienced some sort of memory triggering, but there hasn't been any satisfactory explanation for this common...
Strange kink in Milky Way ring
The Milky Way galaxy is just beginning to unveal its secrets to us, and we are just starting to understand...
The 2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’ could be the biggest ever
Recently, researchers from the Texas A&M University have returned from a trip which had the purpose of estimating the extend...
Shorties: No sex for a million years ? Sure, no problem !
The Timena genus is remarkable from numerous points of view; they are walking stick insects which have been around for...
HIV treatment brings African patients to normal lifespan
It seems that recently, science is finally beginning to corner the HIV virus. Last week, two studies had the same...
The last place to go for a primate on the brink of extinction
The northern white-cheeked crested gibbon is running out of places to live in - literally. Perhaps the only habitat they...
Over half of Alzheimer’s cases could be avoided
According to a study conducted by Deborah Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center,...
Nuclear fission amounts for half of Earth’s heat and energy
The relatively new theory of plate tectonics is still uncertain about what is the driving force behind the tectonic movement;...
Genetic research confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal
There has been a long standing debate regarding the Neanderthal people, and what kind of legacy we carry from them....
Human history recorded in a single genome
First of all, I hope you're having a great Summer so far, and I apologize for my leap of absence...
Papuan weevils have screw-in legs
Long before humans were even thinking about developing the nut and bolt mechanism for screwing one thing to another, mother...