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,...

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

New analysis from NASA's Galeileo spacecraft shows that there is an ocean of molten (or partially molten magma) beneath the...

Giving birth is definitely not something you see everyday, but an octopus giving birth - that's something you may never...

Of course, it is always better to prevent than to treat, but if prevention is no longer an option, than...

HIV research has been in a state of disarray, especially since the economic crisis, which put a lot of research...

Twitter prides itself in connecting the world and sharing everybody's thoughts from every corner of the world, especially when it...

Lately, I'm feeling quite skeptical about the studies I read regarding coffee consumption, especially since it's known that sometimes a...

Poor dandelions - they never even get a chance. If they shop up on your front lawn, you're probably gonna...

China's attempts to move towards nuclear and renewable energy is admirable, but the US will be the driving force behind...

If you think that the recent outbreak of tornadoes are bad, boy are you in for a shocker. An international...

Astronomers from the the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland declared that a recently discovered asteroid has been following our planet...

Bacteria and small plants at the bottom of the ocean require significant quantities of iron to survive and grow, just...

Titan is one strange place; it's a satellite, but it's bigger than Mercury, and it's also the only satellite known...

In a world where accusations like this fly by like pigeons in the park, it was about time someone but...