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....

One landmark study suggests that the tundras are shifting their role as a result of climate change turning into carbon...

British researchers at the University College London set the record for the fastest data transfer rate: a mind-boggling 1.225 Tbps/second....

This polymer can change shape and release tremendous amounts of stored elastic energy relative to its weight simply by being...

While around 97% of active climate change researchers (the most qualified) agree that global warming is real and caused by...

It's easy to understand why human societies throughout history were vastly religious. So many things left unexplained, the most annoying...

In one scenario, parts would spiral farther than the moon!

Police departments all over the world use tasers to pacify aggressive criminals. The stun gun ejects two wires at high...

Vaccines are arguably one of the most impactful medical developments ever. According to the CDC, vaccines given to infants and...

A team of researchers performed the most extensive study of howling made by canid species. This includes wolves, jackals and...

It's hard not to love video mapping, especially if you've seen a show up close and personal.

In the wake of calamities like hurricanes or tornadoes, you'll find trees leveled to the ground. But observations suggest that...

Sighing is a fundamental biological reflex that's a lot more important than most people care to think. We don't just...

CO2 interferes with neuroreceptors in the brain of fish, causing them to behave as if drunk. By 2100, fish in...

These bizarre creatures are called Xenoturbella, and can be found at the bottom of the ocean. For years scientists have...

Once any ice age is over, the increased surface temperature causes the ice caps to melt which lessens the pressure...

It's all about the topography of the terrain, and whether or not it allows for niches to become connected, researchers...

Discovered in ancient lake deposits in northeastern China and eastern Kazakhstan, this ancient insect looks and exhibits behavior closely mimicking...

One of Saturn's ring, which is very opaque and bright seems to have played an optical illusions all along. It...

If you can see a person or an animal, then it is possible to be seen back. It's a basic...

Most people don't have that much of an issue with dying, like they do with being freaking old. Being old...