So much for reasoned debate and scientific discussions: a controversial group bent on discrediting climate science revealed several billboards that...

As I was telling you in a post just a few days ago, there's a supermoon on the rise, and...

An astrobiology mission to three of Jupiter's moons topped two rival astrophysics proposals to win European Space Agency (ESA) funding...

Several studies performed in the last decade have shown Mars used to be warmer and wetter, but scientists still haven't...

I recently came across a piece of paper which described how the city of Seattle will (probably) look like in...

Supermoon comes on the 5th of May; why is it a 'super' Moon? Well, because the period when the Moon...

After two decades of careful breeding and examining, scientists have declared a microscopic algae-eater to be one of the world's...

Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, a research conducted in the US claims, casting...

A new source of methane, a gas which is many times more destructive for the environment than CO2 has been...

In another sci-fi accomplishment, Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot using only thought...

There's gold in the asteroids - and there's also platinum, cobalt, iridium, and many, many other precious or industrial metals;...

In a knitted spacesuit and a tight fitting helmet, Camilla, the rubber chicken bravely flew towards the edge of the...

As temperature continues to increase, and the prognosis seems dire for the next decades, researchers worry about the unexpected side...

The mystery of how the most powerful cosmic rays in the Universe are created deepens, as new clues showed that...

In the past 3 months, over 3000 dead dolphins have been washed ashore on the coasts of Peru, and this...

I don't smoke - and I'm grateful for that every day. But 2 billion people do smoke, and face the...

Mexico, one of the biggest countries in the world, has followed suit with neighboring California and wants to adopt the...

When the administration gives you budget cut lemons, make a different scientific lemonade - that's pretty much what NASA is...

Of all the skills that athletes and sportsmen possess, the most underappreciated ability is a sportsman's mental acuity. While sports...

When Voyager 2 made its flyby near the planet of Uranus, astronomers got their first direct glimpse of what an...

I don't know if you're thinking it, but I definitely am: lizardmen! I'm scared of lizardmen just like the next...

An 8.6-magnitude earthquake and powerful aftershocks struck the coast of Indonesia today, resurrecting fears of a big tsunami like the...

If you're not a dedicated Christian or loved reading about mythology, then you probably don't even know what the shroud...

Our solar system is special for two reasons: the first one, obviously - is us. Our solar system is the...

She was a sacrifice, so you can look at it this way: the Inca chose her to go and live...

It just saddens me to find out about things like this: in Colombia, a ten year old girl has given...

The atmosphere is getting more and more packed with tension between the two Koreas, as satellite images revealed North Korea...

It's been pretty quiet lately at the LHC, despite the fact that things seemed to be getting pretty hot, as...

After James Cameron, the director of movies such as Titanic and Avatar, became the first man to perform a solo...

Autism is truly one of the medical conditions we have extremely much to learn about - the only way it...

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...