The little carnivorous animal has suffered one of the steepest population declines ever to be documented. In just 15 years,...

Scientists who observed an underwater eruption in 2009 concluded they observed a tear in the planetary crust that mimicks the...

Deep in the Mariana Trench, about seven miles below the surface, researchers found huge single celled amoebas, making them not...

Portability is one of the best things brought by technology, but sometimes it just seems a little over the top,...

Another powerful seismic event has taken place, this time in Turkey; the 7.2 earthquake in case struck eastern Turkey on...

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature team has concluded its study, which had the objective of analyzing global temperatures ever since...

Using a pair of satellites that monitor the Earth, NASA recorded over 10.000.000 fires throughout the planet; they then took...

Another game of solar system monopoly is being played at the moment, and so far, the United States are losing...

Water is everywhere on Earth - that's easy to see for anybody. But why and how it got here, that's...

The Sword of Goujian is a masterpiece of craftsmanship.

Scientists at London's Imperial College have successfully managed to create biological logic gates, indispensible for the production of electronical devices,...

A recent study conducted by researchers from Zurich found that a 'super entity' of 147 companies controls 40% of the...

An astronomer working at the University of Hawaii captured the first ever pictures of a planet forming around a star....

Let's face it: great sex is great sex; but can it be so good that it blows your mind, literally?...

Archaeologists have uncovered fully intact Viking boat burial site in the United Kingdom, in the west Highlands. Artefacts buried along...

Another meteor shower draws nearer, as scientists expect it to peak this Friday and Saturday - just before dawn on...

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...