As any traveler surely knows, it's always cheaper if you travel one way; especially if you go to Mars. Recently,...

JAXA, the Japanese space agency is becoming more and more active these days, as Japanese researchers are getting involved in...

You know those days when you go to the beach, and it's just too hot outside, so you have to...

That's right people, all the life on this beautiful planet (yep, that includes you) could descend from alien zombies. Well,...

Researchers have confirmed the presence of a previously undiscovered structure located in the center of the Milky Way, a discovery...

The next step in prospecting and mining has always been a subject of speculation and theories, ever since the days...

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has taken another step towards its goal of finding the so called 'god particle':...

The world's highest third generation (3G) mobile network meets the world's highest mountain, in what is a historic setting of...

About twenty years ago, pretty much every nation on the globe agreed that biodiversity has to be protected, and significantly...

The lead singer, rock legend bat beheader has done pretty much anything you can do in this life. He played...

This seems to be the one of the most asked questions these days; what's my opinion on it ? You...

Amber is not very common, but you can't say it's really uncommon either. Bugs in amber - that's rare, but...

During the year 241 B.C., the play was set for the big game. The players were the relatively young and...

The problem of a water shortage has been on the table for quite a while now, and as time passes,...

This amazing snailfish is just one of the animals new to science that have been uncovered by Oceanlab scientists; the...

An asteroid threat to Earth seems like something we are going to have to face, sooner or later - and...

Scientists working for the UN reported today that they have erradicated the Rinderpest virus, a virus that is deadly for...

Animals are great; if you're not convinced, perhaps the story of Pearl, a black lab abandoned at an animal shelter...

When early galaxies formed, there was a surprisingly high rate of new stars being formed, which was explained by major...

After an exciting discovery of a habitable earth-like planet, skepticism settles back in as a second team of scientists casts...

In was is a historic day, US doctors have officially begun the first trial of using human embryonic stem cells,...

It is always better to prevent than to treat, but when you have no other choice but treatment, the absolute...

Image uploaded to Commons by Kelly. Yosemite is one of the best places to visit in the whole world, and...

In a slapp across Beijing's face, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to imprisoned Chinese scholar Liu Xiaobo, for...

This is perhaps not the right attitude and I'm sure people will frown, but I have to say I had...

I'm really not sure what to think about genetically modified food; in theory, it seems like one of the best...

In case you don't know, a few days ago a toxic red sludge "broke free" from a Hungarian metal plant...

It's always nice when new species are discovered, and this time it was an expedition from Papua New Guinea that...

The Google Lunar X-Prize is a great initiative that awards $20 million to whoever manages to fly a robot to...

The Cape ground squirrel takes sex very seriously. For the males, the scrotum is about 20% of their body length,...

A recently discovered planet is just about the right size and is in the right place to host life; as...

It seems that more and more species are threatened by extinction, and this doesn't apply only to animals. A recent...

I've seen a whole lot of pictures of the red giant spot (it's about as big as Earth), but this...

A long lost footage of the best minutes of the moon landing (Neil Armstrong going down the ladder) has been...

Just a few days ago I was telling you about the APOD Wallpaper software, that automatically changes when a picture...

No, the people in the photo are not sniffing the bra or... something. This is Emergency Bra, or Ebra, for...

The future is here, baby ! Robot archers, that's what it's all about ! This little humanoid robot, nicknamed iCub...

Fossil hunters have recently unearthed the fossil remains of a species that can easily claim the title of the horniest...

Well despite what you may think, the oil industry is doing better than ever. With a length of 468 meters,...

Well the title is a bit deceiving, so let me clear this out a bit: this 100 year old Belgian...

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have conducted a study showing that the deletion of a particular gene makes...

As any amateur photographer can tell you, in order to take a clear picture, you require a good light source;...

A probe that has been launched no less than 30 years ago has come across a force that has baffled...

Well this is definitely not your average fossil hunt, by any standards. The excavating team was doing it's thing, just...

When I saw this picture, it was morning, my eyes hadn't opened up quite yet, and I thought "what's so...

As the dramatic decline of the tigers becomes more and more abrupt, it seems more and more possible that pretty...

Robotics is developing faster and faster, partially thanks to the technological growth of Japan, which has quite some awesome plans...

About 125 million years ago, these hunchback dinosaurs roamed today's central Spain, measuring approximately 6 meters and feasting off of...

Recently, numerous developments in Alzheimer research have been made, including a 'brain pacemaker' and the discovery of an extremely promising...

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