A team of archaeologists from Egypt and Switzerland unearthed the 3100 year-old tomb of a female singer in the valley...

The increasing amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in oceans is literally driving fish crazy, according to an Australian researcher. Professor...

An international team of scientists showed that simple, inexpensive measures to cut emissions of two common pollutants will significantly slow...

The Phobos Grunt probe, which was supposed to head for Phobos, a satellite of Mars but instead got stuck on...

Measuring only a fraction of a coin, these tiny frogs were discovered hopping around in the tropical forests of Papua...

This is truly one of the days when you could feel ashamed to be human. According to reports, loggers in...

It seems more and more evidence points towards marijuana not being such a bad thing; now, a team of researchers...

A team of researchers predicted the next big thing in the world of particle physics: super symmetry, or Susy. The...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists agreed that the world is less safe than it was two years ago -...

Galaxy clusters are the biggest stable structures in our Universe that we know of, typically containing 50 to 1000 galaxies....

Astronomers have created the most accurate and comprehensive map yet of the universe's dark matter, finding it spread in a...

Found in the tropical landscapes of Brazil (where else?), Philcoxia minensis has developed quite an interesting mechanism to feed: it...

Germany keeps setting a right example of how renewable energy should be treated by the authorities, as opposed to the...

Scientists publish papers to tell the world about what they've done. Sharing your results with the world is especially important...

Moore's law states that the processing power of computers doubles approximately every two years; as prices fall and manufacturing technology...

Life on the ISS has its ups and downs, its perks and downsides; but in February, something which seemed a...

It's been a fantastic year, and another one that ended too quickly, if you ask me. For science, it was...

So some of you are already in 2012, some are almost there, some are hours away - but regardless of...

Concluding a debate which lasted for over 7 months, the US Institute of Medicine has released a report that marks...

There are people out there who predict that the entire life on Earth will be wiped out in 2012 -...

Researchers working at the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have probably discovered what can be described as the heart beat of...

To be honest with you, I had no idea that this shark existed until a few hours ago; who would...

Imagine shirts, pants or socks that clean and remove unpleasant smells themselves when hung on your balcony - how would...

In 1926, when merchant marine captain Charles Martell checked into Massachusetts General Hospital, he had already gone down from 6'1"...

NASA has developed a harpoon that would make even the most pretentious pirate jealous: it can latch on to comets...

An unprecedented observation of a supernova right after its explosion has offered scientists extremely valuable insight on these cosmic explosions...

I recently stumbled across this study which I found absolutely mind blowing. Here's how researchers did it. They trained 5...

The big news about the discovery of the Higgs boson seem farther than some might have expected, even though researchers...

A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia blanked out temporarily in protest to SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), a misleading titled...

The Kyoto protocol is the only international pact aimed at fighting global warming; adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto,...

You've heard about Bayer, right? They're one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, most famous for inventing aspirin....

German physicists (who else) reported creating a Stirling engine no larger than 3 micrometers across, which functions just as good...

The physicists over at CERN set out to determine if the Higgs Boson is real or not, and they seem...

There's been a lot of buzz around the planets discovered by the Kepler telescope, particularly about Kepler-22b - the planet...

NASA's famous rover, Opportunity, seems to have stumbled upon clear evidence that water used to flow on Mars, a long...

In a recent post I was telling you about Russian and Japanese researchers working together with the purpose of cloning...

We recently wrote about Kepler-22b, which so far is the planet most likely to host life that we know of,...

This rainbow map of the Vesta asteroid was obtained using NASA's Dawn spacecraft and it shows that it has much...

British Petroleum (BP) accused Halliburton, one of the biggest oil service companies in the world, of destroying evidence which showed...

Don't get too close - you might not be able to get away. Researchers have found and measured the biggest...

The race for finding habitable planets outside our solar system is definitely heating up. After we told you about Gliese,...

Scientists from Russia and Japan searching in the permafrost soil in Siberia have found mammoth remains so well-preserved that they...

Mark is a former park ranger who found the world's biggest insect so far: this giant weta is so big...

Chemistry's periodic table of elements can welcome two new entries: Livermorium and Flerovium, which were announced Thursday, on the first...

A Dutch researcher has created a virus so deadly that it has the potential to wipe out half of the...

Somewhere off Papua New Guinea, scientists uncovered the world's only known orchid to produce flowers at night, only to wither...

A seemingly ordinary starfish robot created by scientists at Harvard has pushed the frontiers of robotics one step further by...

Russian president, Dmitry Medevedev, announced that following the disaster with the Phobos-Grunt mission, which was headed for one of Mars'...

As you may or may not know, these are the last days of a huge UN environmental summit taking place...

At first, science fiction artists wrote about it and nobody gave it much attention, but nowadays, a lot of researchers...