If you ask me, the Greeks are by far the most remarkable ancient people, laying the base for science, philosophy...

During these past months, I've been receiving some questions regarding the whole doomsday-Elenin comet matter. In case you're unfamiliar with...

NASA's troubles are other companies good luck charm: Virgin has just struck a deal with NASA worth up to $4.5...

Scientists have made another step closer to the bionic man, after creating nanotubes out of carbon straws that can contract...

If you think that T-Rex had laughable front limbs, you're in for a treat: even he would be amused by...

A dramatic overnight increase in seismic activity near the Katla volcano in southern Iceland has brought fears of a dramatic...

Ever since the physics experiment which recorded neutrinos traveling slightly faster than light have set the scientific world ablaze, and...

A day or two ago, a whole lot of science websites (including ourselves, let's be fair), wrote about the big...

Among your memory's biggest challenges is remembering what actually happened, versus what you imagined - that's especially hard with some...

I was recently telling you about graphene, the wonder material that promises to bring significant technological advancements - and the...

Our brain is a wonderful thing - the pinnacle of evolution on our planet - and there is still so...

A whole lot of people have been closely following the developments at the Large Hadron Collider, but now, all that...

A study into muscle development conducted on several fish has given valuable insight regarding the genetic leap that moved the...

Bug bite leads to photography award No matter who you are or what you do, you've been bitten by a...

Europe aims for the stars: known as the Solar Orbiter will fly towards the Sun and get closer to it...

Steve Jobs, co-founder of apple and the visionary mind behind the company's products has passed away, at the age of...

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to a single scientist, which is less common than you might think, for the...

The brain learns basically by shifting between different strengths of its synapses, as a response to different stimuli - that...

Well hopefully the days when children dream about being astronauts haven't withered, and there are still people out there who...

A grad student from the prestigious college has created an actual flying carpet, that moves thanks to “ripple power waves”...

Humanity seems determined to continue on a suicidal path and destroy much of the planet that surrounds us; so far...

A new radio telescope array built in the world's highest and driest desert in the world has just photographed two...

It's already the third year in which the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London is hosting the Astronomy Photographer of the...

Women who use birth control pills or other contraceptives experience memory changes, according to a study conducted by UC Irvine...

Kepler 19c, an invisible world, was discovered solely through the gravitational influence it has on its companion world, Kepler 19b....

Paleontologists in South Africa have reported finding an extraordinary number of fossils of a species that predated humans, belonging to...

Your earrings, your wedding ring, the platinum in your computer of phone - all of them might be alien artefacts....

After hurricane Irene, the wildfires ravaging through texas are also visible for astronauts on the International Space Station, as these...

In recent years, fishing is going out of control, and deep water fishing especially has to stop, because it depleted...

A three year survey that comprised of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic comes to an end, successfully...

Being smart is the most valuable thing a man can have for himself; seriously - this is not a metaphor....

Researchers have reached what can only be described as a crucial milestone that opens the way for a new class...

Ever since uranium has been mined and atomic bombs have been tested, some areas have had to deal with the...

For the first time, king crabs have been found on the edge of Antarctica, probably as a result of global...

Gladiators had it rough - to say the least. Their cells barely were big enough to allow them to turn...

A group of scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom are working on an ambitious program to revive their only...

Think of an electric motor; what comes to mind? The results probably vary, but no one would even dare think...

Oceana is the ocean conservation organization, and they've been doing a series of infographics which I found absolutely fantastic! So...

If you look at this picture, you will probably see what can only be described as an unremarkable, even faint...

Using 14 years of images put together, astronomers have managed to animate the fantastic chaos that takes place inside the...

Hurricane Irene is believed to be the 10th billion dollar disaster of 2011, which makes it a new record holder,...

An engineered virus injected directly in the patient's blood has shown some remarkable promise in targeting and destroying cancer cells,...

Humans might have started using sophisticated tools some 1.76 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed. This has been...

A surprising innovation in wind turbine design named a 'wind lens' could triple the output of energy generated by wind,...

During the 1940s, the US conducted a series of incredibly unethical and disturbing experiments regarding sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala,...

Stephen Hawking may have just won the most outrageous bet in physics history, a few years ago, when he claimed...

A few days ago we were telling you about the possibility of the International Space Station being temporarily evacuated, given...

Hurricane Irene is shredding down the US East Coast, growing to be larger and more dangerous than meterologists have predicted....

Whether you like him or not, you have to admit that he has been fighting for a noble and important...

Starting yesterday, the whole world has been abuzz about the giant river discovered 4 kilometers beneath the Amazon, ranging from...