Mindset and learning go hand in hand. It's important to be confident in one's own abilities to learn new skills...

Anxious people may be more prone to associate neutral environmental cues with emotional experiences. Psychologists call this over-generalization, and research...

A study made by researchers at Forida Atlantic University and Cleveland State University assessed the effects of paid sick leave,...

An artificial ‘skin’ can stretch up to 480 percent its original size, and can sense changes in pressure – a...

Around 65.5 million years ago a 10-km wide asteroid crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, suddenly altering all life...

Recently, a treasure trove of a dozen ancient lizards trapped in amber came to scientists' attention. Everyone was impressed by...

Seals from colonies on the North Atlantic island of North Rona that had higher levels of the hormone oxytocin in...

Mars was never the same after a monster volcano erupted on the Red Planet some 3.5 billion years ago. Before...

An early land lover, the Tortobu might have been a key part of the land ecosystem that eventually grew to...

Using only five atoms, a team of international researchers showed how to factor a prime, albeit a trivial one for...

Up until now, there was no reliable way to measure the temperature of nanoscale objects, like viruses.

A revolutionary new supercomputer powered by Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy source for every living cell in your body, is...

Wind gusts are so unforgiving that the trees themselves molded into weird and crooked shapes. There's an almost surreal beauty...

Dammit, people!

Evidence points to the fact that Neanderthals used manganese dioxide, today commonly found in batteries, to light fires some 50,000...

This week Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio won his very first Academy award for best actor. Of course, he was there...

In neighborhoods with high crime rates, past research showed that women who perceive they are at risk will generally be...

Many consumers now choose to exclusively buy products labeled with an eco-certificate which supposedly testifies that manufacturing was made in...

Fewer guns lead to fewer homicides. Will this convince anyone in the U.S., though?

In the 1990s, a famous study found animals in Yellowstone National Park, like elk, bred in fewer numbers and ate...

One group combined water collecting traits from the awesome Namib desert beetle, cactus and pitcher plant to devise a material...

DiCaprio took to the stage to present his acceptance speech, and tackled climate change in front of millions of people...

There's a tune to oxygen, carbon and any other element from the periodic table.

If you sprinkle water on a hot plate, it will evaporate. Basic physics, really. If the plate is really hot...

Research shows that those who exercise stand a far better chance of not getting getting cancer. Those who did get...

Human psychology works in surprising ways, due to our inherent biases. Stubborn people are always hard to convince, but researchers...

Clearly, this isn't your regular truck. It's a custom build that allows masons to erect free-standing tunnels very fast. The...

University of Washington researchers want to flip Wi-Fi energy use upside down. They've invented a new protocol and technique that...

Pushing around Atlas actually has a purpose, besides annoying the robot.

Depending on the alignment of Mars and Earth, as well as the speed of propulsion, a spacecraft could reach the...

Can you fly through water? It's a silly thought, but that's exactly what this snail butterfly, called Limacina helicina, seems...

For the first time, natural gas installations were also surpassed by PV arrays despite the shale boom, which says a...

A study ten years in the making found that sea levels are rising at the fastest rate in the last...

Two major oil spills in the course of only one month are threatening Amazonian wildlife and local communities. Peru’s General...

Astronaut Scott Kelly (seen in pic) and his colleagues stationed on the International Space Station now have a new Sidekick....

Sharks have a reputation of solitary predators. They're not the life of the party, sort to say. One new research...

While 3-D scanning the Columbia command module used by the Apollo 11 astronauts to splash down back on Earth, researchers...

This suggests that humans and Neanderthals interbred about 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. The implications are staggering considering humans...

A  four-minute cantata was found among the the mountains of archives in the Czech Museum of Music in November 2015. The...

Such a program might prove effective at training simple robots to be less awkward around humans and, most importantly, make...

Part of NASA JPL's Exoplanet Travel Bureau series, these 14 posters show such locales as Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa, Saturn's...

This quartz disk could revolutionize storage.

Between 2,500 and 4,000 so-called 'extremists' have been killed by drone strikes and kill squads in Pakistan since 2004. Maybe...

Today, sea levels rise at a rate double that recorded in the 20th century. That's a lot, but not nearly...

A rare kind of aphasia, abbreviated PPA, leaves people at a loss for words. Patients blabber and stutter, seemingly unable...

Our perception does not always reflect reality, as evidenced by numerous studies. The information sent by the eyes to the...

To find its way home to the nest, a wasp will leave its own visual 'breadcrumps'. The wasp will ever...

There are over 5,000 mineral species identified by scientists thus far, but fewer than 100 make up the entire planet's...

Though technically a metal, the electrons inside graphene behave like a liquid traveling very fast in waves.

Today, some people are freezing their bodies or heads at death in hopes of future cures for what ails them....