Finnish and American scientist made knots out of solitary waves, or knot solitons. This was the first time this was...

Plastic bags, bottle caps and plastic fibres are among the myriad of micro plastic debris that wash out into the...

Using cutting edge technology, scientists are now surveying the Great Pyramids of Giza to unravel new clues and maybe find...

Computers at the University of Missouri hooked up to a special software that hunts for primes found the largest yet:...

Why would you eat snow in the first place? Because it's fun and harmless. It's free ice cream. A new...

They're basically the opposite of claustrophobic.

Geckos are the largest animals able to scale walls. They use the same mechanism as spiders and hundreds of other...

Scientists are experimenting with a novel mechanism that destroys harmful bacteria that uses light-activated nanoparticles. These are called quantum dots...

After they studied how much man-made heat got sucked by the world's oceans in the past 150 years, researchers found...

When he was only 13 years old, Scott Persons was led to a sandstone slope right next to the Glenrock...

Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of feeding eager minds with knowledge and helping undergraduates turn reports on time. To mark the...

Those suffering of migraine headaches reported these occurred less frequently after they were prescribed medical marijuana. The study made by...

Tatarenko Vladimir Nikolaevich, a Russian inventor, has designed an audacious new safety mechanism for airplanes: a detachable passenger and cargo...

There's a now a third private space entity that's been screened and granted permission to ferry cargo to and fro...

Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) surveyed hunter-gather communities in Africa and South America which practice a traditional...

Though incandescent light bulbs have been used to light homes for more than a hundreds years, and still do so...

Elon Musk is a man of bold claims, but he also walks the talk.

Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report the first experimental proof of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic...

Agriculture is a very risky line of work since its inevitable once in a while extreme weather will take a...

According to the United Nations, 20 to 40 percent of fresh food is thrown away by farmers because they don't...

When faced with a risky decision, like gambling, some people falter and become very cautions, while others get super excited....

The indispensable chemical mixture that allows the industry to fracture rock and release the gas trapped inside looks almost like...

It's always annoying.

Some 50,000 years ago Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans co-existed, mingled and interbred. While only the human lineage exists today,...

The prevailing assumption is that mothers who birth more children live short lives due to accelerated biological aging. Researchers turn...

Birds are literally dinosaurs, so many scientists suspect millions of years ago dinosaurs shared similar courtship tactics like fancy plumage...

hinese drone making company Ehang recently showed off one of the most impressive contraptions at the CES convention in Las...

Schistosoma mansoni might not as famous as other nasty parasitic worms like flatworms or roundworms, but outside the U.S. this...

The Chinese capital is notoriously polluted and frequently plagued by smog, a noxious gas mixture made of nitrogen oxides, sulfur...

So, what's the future going to look like ten years from now? What's the next big thing? Genomics, big data,...

Even though they can't remember a word in mandarin, children from China adopted in France bear the same brain activity...

A GreenTechMedia analysis forecasts that energy storage systems, like large density batteries, will become a lot cheaper in the coming...

These aren't Christmas lights, but the actual neural activity of Caenorhabditis Elegans, a parasitic nematode. The brain imaging was done...

Everybody has to eat, but for all their efforts farmers can easily lose a year's worth of crops due to...

Some argue that the first genuine science fiction novel is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where technology bordering necromancy is used to...

Scientists find the specific brain pathway used by ketamine to relieve depression. Now, it's possible to design a new drug...

Before digital or overhead projectors were invented, for hundreds of years people enjoyed projecting large scale images on their walls...

A new study shows a part of the problem that fuels America's prescription opioid epidemic -- the worst drug abuse...

World War II was the most devasting war in human history, if we're to rank by casualties in absolute numbers...

Chinese researchers say their lunar rover found a new type of lunar rock unlike anything the Americans or Soviets had...

Scientists want to grow potatoes on Mars to study crop resilience in the face of climate change. Brilliant or stupid?

YES! SpaceX made it! Wooohooo!

Lions are listed under the Endangered Species Act, five months after a famous lion was lured away from a protected...

It's the bigger or charismatic of animals that get targeted by human hunters. These give off more meat, more pelt...

Just a couple of minutes of high-intensity exercising can provide similar heath benefits as an hour of cardio. Learn why,...

Is this genius or lame? We can't really tell for now.

Over the last three years, NASA engineers have been exploring using additive technology, like 3D printing, to manufacture key rocket...

Is the American dream over?

This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy.

Since the first plesiosaur complete skeleton was discovered in 1824, scientists have been debating how on Earth this reptile used...