Due to the rising of the phenomena, there has been a surge in the studies concerning obesity; there are, of...

Endeavour seems to be extremely reluctant to retire. NASA officials announced they found a minor electrical problem that will delay...

In the long and tenuous fight agains HIV and AIDS, researchers seem to have made a small, but extremely important...

Photo by Hansueli Krapf. Crop circles have been intriguing and fascinating ever since they were first reported, sparkling the immagination...

Global warming has lowered the global yield of crops with up to 5% since 1980; not for soybeans, or tomatoes,...

The Halley comet, perhaps the most infamous of them all, will light the night sky in a dazzling display which...

Prediction made by UCLA geographers Thomas Gillespie, John Agnew, and a whole class of undergrads regarding where Osama Bin Laden...

The sad shut down of SETI due to lack of funding brings a major halt to the search for aliens,...

The team operating the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland reported storing antimatter for...

Well the teahouse itself isn't dangerous at all, but as in life, it's about the journey, and not about the...

Humanity's right handedness began at least 500.000 years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Kansas researchers....

First of all, don't think of alien species as extraterrestrials; if you came here wanting to hear about that -...

Some species of bacteria can survive virtually anywhere: in acids, in nuclear waste, at extremely low or high temperatures, at...

Over 50 species of pupfish are known from the US to Venezuela, and they are all pretty much the same...

The box jellyfish (commonly known as the sea wasp) is not only the most venomous creature in the world, but...

Space shuttle Endeavour was set to launch a few days ago, and everything seemd to go according to plan; however,...

The quantum world is entirely different from what we see around us; it has its own laws, its own algebra,...

The planet in case is 55 Cancri e, and it's 60 per cent larger in diameter than Earth but eight...

As I was telling you a few days ago, after Discovery, Endeavour is also preparing for its last trip, led...

Deadly tornadoes are rampaging the United States, killing an estimated number of 193 people in five states already, and showing...

When Biosphere 2 was launched in 1991, the idea seemed to be absurd. A few years after that, it suddenly...

We already know about numerous extremophiles, microbes that can live in incredibly extreme conditions, which would easily kill almost every...

The situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant was dangerous for several weeks, but the danger of nuclear power plants has...

The world scientific community is absolutely abuzz with the rumour that the Higgs boson, the elusive God particle, may have...

Nostalgia time folks; you might want to sit down for this, because this time it's the typewriter edition. The last...

Carl Sagan must be twisting and twitching in his grave. SETI, the project which became synonymus with searching for extraterrestrial...

Endeavour will pretty soon begin its retirement, just like fellow space orbiter Discovery did just a while ago. However, Endeavour's...

Telephones became mobile phones, mobile phones became smartphones, and smartphones will become... mind phones ?! According to neuroscientists at the...

The continuous expansion of human cities are forcing habitats, as well as plants and animals, to retreat more and more;...

In the years of the Cold War and the space race, the Soviets were extremely preoccupied with convincing their people...

San Francisco today The great San Francisco earthquake took place on April 18, 1906, rupturing along the San Andreas fault...

After decades in which environmentalism wasn't really taken serious, big steps are being made in the right direction; however, without...

More than one quarter of children aged 16 and below living in the UK can expect to live to be...

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...