How can this be? Medicine has progressed... we have drugs for everything, surgery, etc. So how come people live less...

A rundown of the five tallest mountains in the world.

Photo by Stefan Everybody (or almost everybody) believes that no matter what, USA remains "polluter no. 1". Don't take my...

Photo by jago In a study conducted by researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University that claimed a different...

Two years ago, the Finnish Meteorological Institute made public the fact that they had created an electric solar wind sail....

University of Maryland researchers have managed to shed some light in an important matter which puzzled medical scientists and not...

Volcanic eruptions are impressive natural phenomena; it begins when pressure on a magma chamber forces magma up through the conduit...

Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 2.3-square-mile (6.0 km²) atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands...

    I'm not fond of alarmist theories or "bad things are happening, fast" attitude, but... bad things are just...

What makes us different is not who we are, not what we think, but the decisions we make. That defines...

It's a chilling list.

Green fuels are a really hot topic, with every single day bringing a new (claimed) discovery or breakthrough, but many...

The Aztecs were the dominant civilization in Mexico for several hundred years, when their "reign" was stopped by the Spanish...

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a significant breakthrough in the development of biofuels ("green gasoline"), a liquid...

The first lungless frog has been discovered lurking in the jungles of Borneo. This amphibian is totally enigmatic, at least...

Recently, it seems there's a gene for everything, from generosity to ruthlesness. That still doesn't mean that you can blame...

It's said that even though computer have so much processing power, it some ways, it can never even get close...

The threat that global warming is has definetly been underestimated, and if something doesn't develop quite fast that could handle...

A University of Washington fish expert claims to have discovered a whole new species of fish, that would rather crawl...

  The hunt is on for finding other planets we can live on; this is probably the next step for...

    The controversy between the climate and energy researchers has been fuelled by the recent studies which suggest the...

After the "crash site" in Peru, meteorites keep the headlines again! This time, scientists from the University of Oxford and...

Well somehow BBC always manges to find a way to surprise and thrill us; while I was browsing their site...

According to a new research, published in PLoS, as the total number of different species in a certain group grows,...

The date of March 19, 2008 will be remembered as a very important day in astronomy and science; it's the...

    Prions (or proteinaceous infectious particle; on comes from analogy to virion) are the nasty little buggers responsible for...

Recently, a small Aerospace company located in California has announced a new type of sub-orbital spaceship that can make your...

Recently, the University of California, Riverside provided some materials that shocked me, to say the least. According to that research,...

There's always been a lot of effort put into understanding what (if something) makes humans superior to other man-like mammals....

After things seemed to be going a bit towards the right way, when fishing was banned in the 2nd largest...

Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution performeda study of New...

A recent study has shown that certain types of air pollution can actually help by creating extra doses of atmospheric...

A problem which a decade ago would have seemed just absurd is now becoming more and more pressing: water. More...

In what is a great leap for science, scientists from UCLA and the University of Washington have succeeded in creating...

Scientists from the University of Bath have revealed what may very well be the first law of evolution, which has...

Recently, more and more people are beginning to claim that the melting of glaciers caused by global warming is all...

Scientists from the American Geophysical Union published some fascinating findings concerning some unexpected luminous spots on Jupiter caused by its...

We're gonna take small break from science and relax with the fine arts of the 20th century. Recently, Saatchi made...

While you're sitting at home (or somewhere else) enjoying your internet connection you are probably not thingking about the 1.6...

Nature has its own way of protecting itself, and we should have already learned this (the hard way), because so...

Nature published these findings of scientists from Houston, Texas, about the original proportion of oxygen isotopes in the Sun. This...

An amateur Dutch archaeologist named Jan Meulmeester made a startling find which pleases scientists: an amazing collection of 28 flint...

After it was proved that Homo floresiensis (”Man of Flores”, nicknamed Hobbit) is a different species than humans, the tiny...

Back in September, a meteorite crashed somewhere in Peru, scaring locals and digging a hole in the ground, but pleased...

The Cassini spacecraft has made numerous valuable discoveries along the time, such as the 'building blocks' of life on Titan,...

Researchers from the University of Maryland started researching some characteristics of bacteriae from Chesapeake Bay that could lead to a...

Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario have spotted (with the aid of cameras, of course) a...

As you know (or at least should know), butterflies and moths are known for their metamorphosis from catterpillars to their...

Mars has fueled many speculations for many centuries, and just several decades ago it was proved that there is no...

This project was backed up by U.S., Italian and German partners and it promised to be the next step in...