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It's way older than divers thought.
Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is intriguing.
Yes, it's actually happening.
The rich really do get richer - a new study found that the richest families in Florence, Italy, have had it good for a while. For 600 years, to be precise.
While robotics and AI research is taking massive strides forward, our social development hasn't really kept up with them.
Borders often highlight the relationship and differences between different countries, and here are some of the most spectacular and revealing ones.
Few things in life can claim to be truly breathtaking, and even fewer of those things are man-made. But this perfect rocket landing from SpaceX can definitely claim that:
Scientists have confirmed that the pharaoh's dagger is indeed not from this Earth - the blade is the "iron of the sky."
The good news is that it's easy to turn this off.
A Canadian think tank found that Canada's status as a 'world superpower' is threatened because the world is shifting away from fossil fuels faster than expected, opting more and more for renewable energy.
Researchers at Southampton University in the UK have developed a technique which allows them to store 360 TB of data for a virtual infinity.
Several tablets from the Roman Age have been uncovered and analyzed following excavation in London, including the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain and the first ever reference to London.
Researchers are now one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, thanks to the mantis shrimp - a marine crustacean strong enough to cut a finger.
Australia's government wants to stick its head in the sand and simply ignore reality instead of making actual efforts to protect the reef.
#cabshots are taking over the internet
The Nature Index highlights scientific outputs from countries, organizations, and even individual researchers.
Some things on the internet are just mind-bending, and this is definitely one of them.
It's high time something like this happened.
Dandruff is the most common scalp condition, yet we know surprisingly little about it.
Natural history and in general, all natural sciences, are falling out of favor in school curriculums
Fulfilling the job that scientists and unlucky undergrads have been doing for years, the kinetic machine Jller selects and sorts pebbles found on a 6 1/2 x 13 foot platform into a grid organized by geologic age. Without any assistance, the machine analyzes rocks based on their shape and sizes, understand their correct placement and transports them […]
Greek archaeologists may have located the tomb of Aristotle, one of the most important philosophers and scientists of the Antiquity.
This extraordinary bus concept has been all over the internet, promising to revolutionize public transportation, making it more efficient and greener in the process. But could it actually work?
The team has pushed sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 34.5% – establishing a new world record for unfocused sunlight.
The footwear giant has announced it will move much of its activities from Asia back to Germany. The company unveiled ts prototype “Speedfactory”, a state-of-the-art, 4,600 square-meter facility which will automate most of the work.
Deep inside the Bruniquel Cave in France, a set of man-made structures 336 meters from the entrance lie as evidence to the former populations which inhabited the cave. These are among the oldest structures created by humans, and they have quite a story to tell about some of our ancestors. Until now, the earliest dated structures go back to […]
A research team discovered two geologically young craters — one 16 million, the other between 75 and 420 million, years old — in the Moon’s darkest regions.
A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics just beat the previous record by a factor of 10.
Canadian aboriginals have been using clay to treat their ailments for centuries.
National Geographic’s Travel Photographer of the Year is nearing its conclusion, where the winners will be crowned. It’s not easy to decide from so many amazing photos, as you can see for yourself below. Which one is your favorite? Gentle Giants Mystical forest Eligible contestants can visit natgeo.com/travelphotocontest to submit photographs in any or all of […]
Called ReGen Villages, the project imagines a community of buildings that produce all their own food and energy, while being off the grid and having an extremely low environmental impact.
For the first time in history, scientists have cut out HIV genes from live animals.
In the early 1900s, cigarettes were living their golden years - something which millions of lungs regretted. But you can't charge the smoking industry of not being creative. Back in the day, manufactures used to insert stiffening cards into their paper cigarette packs, to make them more sturdy and last more; not long after that, companies started printing all sorts of quotes, trivia, artwork, and... life hacks.
If you like lions, or watching nature documentaries, the odds are you've heard of George Adamson. Nicknamed "Baba ya Simba" (Father of Lions), Adamson lived an amazing life. Best known for his award winning documentary Born Free, he managed to live among lions and make them treat him as equals, resulting in a relationship of mutual trust.
If I asked you to guess where we have the best chances of finding life outside of Earth, you’d be hard pressed to think about Europa. But Jupiter’s frozen moon is beginning to look more and more attractive, and may even harbor an Earth-like ocean. We’ve written extensively before about the life harboring possibilities of […]
A new study published in the Lancet Psychiatry reports that "magic mushrooms" could help in otherwise "untreatable" cases of depression.
Robots are taking our jobs once again - or rather, helping us do our job a little bit better.
The vaquita marinas are on the verge of extinction, with only 60 individuals remaining in the wild.
Conventional computers are starting to reach their physical limitations but rest assured - a new technology is being worked on that will take computing to new, unforeseeable heights.
An offshore of Royal Dutch Shell is responsible for a new oil spill which covered a 13- by 2-mile sheen of oil on the waves.
I for one welcome our new robot TAs.
Mount Ruapehu on New Zealand’s north island is starting to show signs of eruption, and hikers have been warned to stay away from it. This is the real-life Mount Doom from The Lord of the Rings, where many scenes of the movie were shot. Mount Ruapehu is a stratovolcano with three major peaks: Tahurangi (2,797 m), Te […]
ALOS (nicknamed “Daichi”) is a Japanese Earth-observation satellite, developed by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), with the main objective of mapping the Earth’s surface, monitoring disasters and providing resource surveying. But now, instead of taking advantage of this satellite’s massive scientific potential, let’s indulge ourselves in some great imagery from it: The Sahara desert The […]
The decline of the oil industry continues.
The entire world of archaeology was electrified by recent announcements of a hidden chamber in Tutankhamun’s tomb. The story had it all – maybe even too much – false walls, hidden riches, even a mummy, Nefertiti’s mummy. But while the whole situation is still in the air, more and more doubt is being cast on the […]
It's almost like a sixth sense that protects you - but it doesn't help you at all when you're texting.
A team of researchers is investigating the Chicxulub crater, of the asteroid that wiped the dinosaurs (and many other creatures) some 65,5 million years ago. Now, they've set out to Reddit to answer all our questions
The 2016 Olympics in Rio are riddled with problems, one of them being a potentially global pandemic. Medical doctors are worried that the huge gathering could spark a massive Zika epidemic.
If you like burgers - and let's face it, you do - then we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that most of the burgers in America are OK - a molecular analysis showed that there is nothing wrong in terms of nutritional content and ingredients. But a small minority was not OK.
It's hard to quantify the total contribution of a university or research group to science, but the Nature Index is one of the more reliable options. It is basically a database of author affiliation information collated from research articles published in a selection of 68 high-quality science journals. These are the ten most significant institutions in 2015.
