Physics is still not sure what to make of antimatter; theoretically speaking, after the Big Bang, matter and antimatter were...

As you probably (and should) know already, symbiosis is a close interaction (often long term) between different species, both of...

With today's technology, prosthetics are not at all uncommon, and what's even more important, they have become more and more...

Photo by NASA. I sure hope everybody knows what an eclipse is and there's no need to pass through that...

It was 1893 when Orlando Ferguson, a real estate developer based in South Dakota combined religious beliefs with some scientific...

The development of a brain-like computer would have numerous and varied benefits, and this achievement is one step closer, according...

Were dinosaurs slow and lazy, as you see most reptiles today, or active and quick like you see them in...

For the past few months, the situation in Libya has varied from dire to horrifying; the rebels are fighting to...

In a recent post I showed you some absolutely stunning Soviet space program posters, and guess what - we're back...

You can't believe everything people say, but you sometimes can't even believe what you hear, especially if you've had 3...

How do you feel about your facebook friends ? I like them; some are my good friends in real life,...

Acording to a report released by the UN on Sunday, a transition to a low carbon, green and ressource efficient...

It always baffles me to see how science news propagate; it seems whenever a study or a report is published,...

A much anticipated and highly expected drug could come from Pfizer Inc, the biggest drug company in the world; the...

Biological systems have recently attracted the attention of mathematicians and computer scientists, who have been turning everything from quantum processes...

You can add another thing to the list of robots do and 99.99% of humans can't; this time, it's all...

We are living epoch changing times - literally. According to an influential and evergrowing group of geologists, there are more...

You know the food pyramid, right ? It shows you just approximately how much of each food element you should...

What can possibly link together speed, strength, and the colour red ? Nope, it's not a brand new Ferrari -...

Global warming is not an abstract element, it's not harmless, and it doesn't apply only to polar caps; it affects...

Remember the days when cigarettes didn't have to feature labels of all the bad things that can happen if you...

Worms are definitely a tough bunch; you may see them as soft and vulnerable, but they can resist in conditions...

It's a black period for Brazil's environment, and things will get even worse in days to follow; the government just...

Topping this week's absurd news by far, this is one of the most preposterous things I've read in all my...

Our perception of size and distances is basically a product of how the brain interprets different visual signals, like for...

Much like humans, monkeys too exhibit signs of regret, and they wonder themselves what might have been, according to a...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have found that more and more young adults are suffering from a...

NASA announced that it will launch an unmaned ship to a nearby asteroid, in an attempt to figure out more...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) continues on its quest to find out exactly what happened in the first seconds after...

Graphene is probably the 'substance of the century', and it will probably be for us what plastics were in the...

Anomalocaridids were extremely weird animals, by today's standards; but by the standards of the Cambrian, they were the hot guys....

There are still many things we still don't understand about the electron; only recently, a team from the Imperial College...

If you ask me, one of the most interesting things regarding animal evolution is sex; the animal kingdom has expanded...

Not one, not 2, or 3, 5, 10 - but 17 new pyramids were found by a new Egyptian satellite...

  Photo by Roger McLassus.   Taken at distances as small as 1 kilometer, these pictures of Grimsvotn (the volcano...

  Paper is just paper, right ? Nothing fancy, nothing special, just plain old paper that we see and probably...

For most bacteria, a fresh supply of air is pretty much the best thing that can happen; however, for some,...

An extremely old spider has showed its face for the first time in almost 50 million years; buried in a...

Japan shows us yet again that they are leading the world in terms of renewable energy, in taking a plan...

Even though Facebook is already filled with underage children, and acording to a facebook depression study, kids are often negatively...

  A recent NASA operation (who knew they do this stuff ?) busted a woman who was trying to sell...

Spacewalking isn't all fun and games - things can go bad at any moment, and in the latest spacewalk, this...

A testament to how even a garbage dump can become something beautiful.

Finding new planets is interesting an remarkable, but finding a whole new class of planets - that's definitely something extraordinary....

Confirming what teenage boys and mysoginistic men already knew, a 2002 study confirms the fact that semen might have in...

Time is money, time is of the essence, it's time for time to be given its just attention; clocks are...

Touch is revolutionizing everything these days - first, it was the touch screen, then it was the touchpad, and it...

The stage seems finally set for the Endeavour launch that was delayed so long, and aside from the usual crew,...

Every once in a while, the Sun gets a little hungry; in those times, it grabs on a little comet...

Since 1995, over 500 planets that don't orbit our Sun have been discovered, with the numbers increasing more and more...