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You'd expect this from the Times, and it wouldn't be so much of a surprise. But David Owen's article entitled...

This is one of those studies which makes you realize that being a researcher definitely has some unexpdected perks; it...

I recently came across this poll, which was conducted about a year ago. Ok, so it's not extremely actual, but...

I was telling you a while ago about the revolutionary material called graphene. Graphene is a one atom thick layer...

The world we live in is getting closer and closer to Star Trek everyday. Scientists announced today they were able...

  This weird armored mollusk is called a chiton, and scientists are amazed by it. They discovered eye-like structures on...

Staphylococcus aureus is a nasty fellow; it can be responsible for a variety of diseases, and it's pretty resistant to...

In a move that should make amateur and professional astronomersecstatic, NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping...

Help! Global warming shows more and more effects with eacy passing day. Russian arctic foxes are threatened by their red...

Life on an oil platform is tough; it's hard living on a piece of metal in the middle of the...

In a breakthrough discovery that could revolutionize transplants, British researchers have managed to create human kidneys from stem cells, which...

In a surprising turn of events, semen from a species of duck has been found to totally destroy Esterichia Coli,...

Almost all Nobel prize laureates are active in an artistic field as well as in science. They are 25 times...

The effects alcohol has on our brain are still not perfectly understood, and the general opinion and even some studies...

Cyanide is nasty. I don't care if you're a venomous snake, an elephant or Charlie Sheen, cyanide is something you...

Everybody was eager to see where the four space ships who will soon be retired will go; the idea was...

Yellowstone is without a doubt one of the most fascinating places on the face of the planet. But it doesn't...

In the theoretical and absurd case of a pigeon going on a police identification line, do you think it would...

DNA nanotechnology is one of the most exciting branches of nanotechnologies, especially because it uses the ability of natural DNA...

Today, we celebrate 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into outer space, thus becoming the first human being to do...

Yuri Gagarin, a soviet astronaut was the first man to ever go into outer space, exactly 50 years ago, when...

The topic of modification of data in scientific research is definitely a hot one; the frequency at which researchers fabricate...

In a recent act that just baffles my mind, Tennesee, not one of the US brightest states, has passed a...

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was launched by physics professor Richard Muller, a long time critic of studies led...

Tuesday will mark the 50th year since human space flight, since the day Yuri Gagarin left Russia and became the...

In a surprising move that didn't get quite a lot of attention, the FBI released an online document archive they're...

It's not that uncommon for two stars to dance, but when three of them get together, and dance without singing,...

NASA engineers and technicians are making the last adjustments to the Mars Rover, which is about the size of a...

Volcanoes have fascinated human beings since the dawn of time; thankfully, now we know enough not to think of them...

  The Draco constellation (which is Latin for Dragon) is located at about 3.8 billion light years from Earth; just...

I recently came into the possession of a book called 'Visions of the Multiverse', which I had the pleasure of...

I was quite pleasantly surprised by Universe in a Sandbox. It is one of the best pieces of software I've...

Researchers and astronomy amateurs alike should leave a few days open in their November calendar and prepare for something awesome;...

The number of elephant poaching in Africa has increased dramatically, as well as the Chinese demand for ivory, and according...

The seismological events near Japan are far from reaching an equilibrium; a 7.4 or 7.5 earthquake on the Richter scale...

  NASA is going through one of it's hardest periods ever, but that doesn't mean that the space research and...

As Japan struggles to control the situation at the Fukushima power plant, an even more complicated question arises; where will...

The ozone layer in the arctic regions has suffered unprecedented damage this winter due to cold weather in the upper...

The death of medical marijuana is drawing closer and closer, as researchers find out that the cannabinoid THC, the primary...

The brains of adults can grow significantly in a staggeringly short amount of time if you just start learning like...

Our solar system appears to exist inside a "bubble", inside a network of cavities inside the interstellar medium, which was...

I had no idea IBM was doing this kind of thing too, but I recently found out that they developed...

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