The prettiest carbon allotropes of them all, diamonds have fascinated royalty, collectors and window shoppers since ancient times. Some gem-grade...

Westerners are horror-struck by the prospect of an Ebola or Zika pandemic in their very own neighbourhood. Media panic aside,...

After an A.I. beat the human champion at Go, a game almost infinitely more complex than chess, some might feel...

What if you could read a book three times faster? That definitely sounds appealing, which si why speed-reading training and,...

A Silicon Valley billionaire who made a fortunate investing in Facebook wants to beat cancer once and for all.

On the desk of Seokheun "Sean" Choi sits a 3x3 array that at first glance looks like a lemon squeezer....

Designer/molecular biologist Eleanor Lutz is back with yet another awesome science feature: virus trading cards.

It took a while, but scientists have finally imaged the brains of people on LSD -- a psychedelic used recreationally...

Fresh from the GE Global Research lab is this tiny monster: a turbine small enough you can hold in your...

Most of the life we see around us -- plants, animals, humans and other so-called eukaryotes -- actually comprise a...

In Europe and the United States, an increasing number of employers have adopted a smoke-free policy and may not hire...

One new research on rats suggests that the magic brew could be very potent against anxiety if ingested over a...

For archiving purposes, at least, DNA -- the blueprint or genetic recipe that codes all life -- might be worth...

The great physicist who invented Calculus in his 20s and gave the world the universal law of gravity transcribed countless...

The best public speakers have mastered these key factors.

Though minute, these are far from insignificant as their pray have learned the hard way. In fact, it's their small...

People of European descent carry as much as 4 percent Neanderthal DNA, but the Y chromosome passed down from father...

Those who take too much offence of improper grammar and typos in an informal situations were found have "less agreeable"...

. A team at Purdue University in West Lafayette finally cracked the code, revealing a virus very much akin to...

Drastically reducing body size and, maybe most importantly, lifespan may have been the most important course of action evolution undertook...

The Sunny State is going through its worst drought in the last couple thousand years. Unfortunately, these events will happen...

Finally, a team of researchers have bridged the gap and found an accurate mathematical equation that can determine the "spectral...

Five baboons were each hooked up with a pig heart alongside their own hearts. Essentially, these baboons lived with two...

The exact path Hannibal took in this epic voyage across the Alps has been a matter of debate among scholars,...

Here's a great way to spend science dollars: see if humans literally find robots sexy. They do sort of, or...

Depression can be exhausting. Here's why.

Photosynthesis is maybe the most important chemical process on Earth, turning sunlight and CO2 into the oxygen we breath and...

Enercon's E-126 turbine towers 125 meters high and can generate a staggering 7.58 MW of electricity.

The ritual of sacrifice is ubiquitous in all religions, be it self-offered or undertaken by a higher religious figures. Scholars...

Fake 3-D printed eggs packed with sensors help scientist learn how vultures incubate their eggs. This way, they might be...

A gas giant called KELT-4Ab revolves in a stable 3-day orbit around its parent star, flanked by another two.

If confirmed, the findings could rewrite history.

Divers stumbled across two pirate ships sunk fifteen miles off the island of Saint Lucia, in the eastern Caribbean Sea....

VR company SecondHandLife unveiled a revolutionary new app that allows friends to immerse themselves together in a virtual bar, among...

Sunny states like California, Texas and Florida topped the list of states where rooftop solar could generate the most energy.

A refined model based on equations which accurately reproduced sea level rise events from hundreds of thousands of years ago...

SpaceX will launch as early as April 8 an inflatable habitat module destined for the International Space Station.

The gentlest of all apes takes friendship very seriously. New research suggests bonobos can remember the voices of their friends...

As if living with a mental illness wasn't tough enough, many are stigmatized and discriminated by the rest of the...

A simple blood test can diagnose a concussion within a couple of hours from the injury, according to preliminary results....

A new research modeled thousands of fisheries from around the world and found that a straightforward economic reform will not...

Russian paleontologists dated the fossil remains of a Elasmotherium sibiricum, a giant beast the size of a mammoth with a...

The largest and last coal-fired plant in operation in Scotland was officially shut down, marking an end to an 115-years-long...

Found in only eight caves on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, this eyeless fish can walk.

Evolution is not kind to older dads, a new research suggests. University of Göttingen in Germany researchers found that older...

Prairie dogs aren't as innocent as they look. Researchers have documented as the animals slaughter ground squirrels for control over...

GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump met with the The Washington Post’s editorial board on Monday. For a full hour he...

Religious people were found to be more empathic, meaning they identified more with the feelings and struggles of other people....

Well, technically if you're not a space pirate, you'll be prosecuted by the laws governing your home country. On the...

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