Scarlett Johansson. Not related in anyway to the study... but a fine example. Well we all know the effect a...

Whether intelligent life exists in our universe is a long debated problem. But for some scientists, there's something even more...

Well I have to say, I'm really thrilled about the Winter Olympics that have just started, and even though they...

Nobody wants to grow old, but at least at this point in our evolution, it's unavoidable. Growing old however, is...

For years and years (good) doctors have warned about the dangers of taking antibiotics too lightly, which generally causes 'bugs'...

Pluto is so upset that it's no longer a planet, that it's turning all red with anger ! No, seriously....

Mark Benfield from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge was undertaking a survey when he spotted this amazing oarfish at about...

Boy I've gotta tell you, my jaw really dropped when I heard this one. There are actual lakes, on the...

Yes ladies and gents, giant squids are all over the California beaches. Each of the squids weighs about 40 pounds,...

The sun begins to ooze off outside of Birmingham, England. It's tea time. A woman stands alone in her house,...

The G-Spot debate is probably never gonna end; and who can carry it out better than the English and the...

Yesterday, Bill Gates officially announced he will donate 10 billlion dollars for a 10 year effort to boost vaccination against...

Just a short while ago, I was telling you about the extremely worrying decline of the Siberian tigers (and not...

Well you've probably all seen the Myth Busters. I've watched some episodes and loved most of them, so I'm hoping...

Whether you're a fan of Apple or really hate them, you have to admit there's been a lot of fuss...

At a first glance, this doesn't seem like much. Just an animal rescued. But if you look more carefully, I...

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...