They've known each other basically all their lives, but the early days weren't happy at all. Found during a police...

Her name is Severn Suzuki, and here you have one of perhaps the most impressive speeches of all time, delivered...

A new research published in Nature Physics showed that there may be oceans of diamonds (literally) on both Uranus and...

I was surprised to talk to a bunch of people today and find out they didn't know about this, so...

There are weird lawsuits you can understand, and then there are just weird lawsuits. If you find this sort of...

The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother...

As you probably know, a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, basically destroying the country. The situation there was extremely bad even...

Well despite what many people might think, Hollywood isn't and never was the center of the world (hopefully, it won't...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) published some quite awesome pictures showing that Antarctica isn't the lifeless frozen wasteland most people...

Where do birds go in the winter? That's a question many of us asked, as kids. Well puffins are currently...

Image by Lilolebob. Every year, around this time of year, more than 100 million determined crabs take to the streets...

There are less than 100 pumas left in Florida's wilds, and 17 were killed in collisions with cars, which is...

Mankind is screwing up. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. Not taking care of our natural resources, polluting...

I was writing a while ago that major biofuel production is not really that far away and the good news...

Obesity is a problem that's taking bigger and bigger proportions (especially in the US), due mostly to fast food and...

Researchers from Yale University succeeded in what seemed to be an impossible task: they've created a transistor from a single...

Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, which are just bits of infectious...

Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically...

It's been a busy year indeed, especially with the LHC doing it's thing again, Hubble was repaired and there was...

Boy 2009 passed quite quickly, but it didn't go without a blast, that's for sure ! I'm gonna show you...

Hello people! If you're reading this then New Year's hangover is no more and you're up and ready to start...

Well ladies and gents, it's Christmas Eve, and it's high time we conclude the giveaway. So without further ado, the...

The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to...

As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it's the...

Just like many categories of people, I've recently been (insistently) offered a free flu shot. I said no. Without going...

Since the Large Hadron Collider went back in business, all sort of rumors have been circling the scientific circles (and...

The koala population has been going down for quite some while now, mostly due to habitat loss and the lack...

Global warming is one of the main concerns on everybody's lips, causing more and more damage to the environment every year,...

Blue whales are not only the biggest living creatures in the world right now, but the biggest ever to have...

Well, rumors and science never go well together, especially when it goes to something as important as the work going...

It was Thursday night when locals from Norway started to notice a strange, rotating light that just baffled them. It...

Hello! I've been running ZME Science for more than 2 years now, and the support you've shown has been increasingly...

Nanotechnology is perhaps the field with the most spectacular development over the past years, but it can be really hard...

Facebook has already caused a major revolution in the way people regard social interaction, but really not much has been...

Ants are most amazing creatures, and there's so much we could learn from them I wouldn't even know where to...

The Siberian tiger is the biggest feline to walk the face of the Earth at the time, but if today's...

The researchers and engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider have smashed together for the first time protons, in what is...

The researchers from the Census of Marine Wildlife have accomplished a truly amazing task; they have inventoried a fantastic abundance...

Physicists from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have demonstrated what they claim to be the first universal programmable...

Quartz is a hard mineral consisting of silicon and oxygen. It's one of the most common minerals in the Earth's...

First of all, it has to be said that this once common burial practice in Tibet is pretty hard to...

A study conducted by professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales showed that bad moods can actually...

The first experiments with this laser (Linac Coherent Light Source) have been given the green light at the Department of...

In 2005, a huge 35 mile rift broke the Ethiopian desert apart and immediately led to geological claims that a...

Imagine an average day in your life; the odds are, it'll include either logging onto facebook, tweeting, browsing some pics...

Star clusters are among the pretties things you can see, when it comes to astrophysical observations. Recently, ESO provided some...

It may seem hard to believe, but even smoking a single cigarette has really bad effects on you, especially if...

Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa was doing some...

When it's really hot and sunny outside, a black roof gets really hot, while a white roof reflects rays from...

An international team of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) managed to identify...