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...

"Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics," G. H. Hardy (1877-1947)

Some stars go out with a bang -- a supernova explosion! Using optical images recorded by the now defunct Kepler...

What does a weird tendon on your inner wrist have to do with evolution? This video explains.

Fungi were thought to have a minimal impact on minerals' bioweathering. A recent study suggests that fungi are a lot...

On the heels of the warmest winter on record, a Gallup poll found a record number of Americans perceive global...

The International Renewable Energy Agency claims doubling worldwide renewable energy capacity fifteen years from now would provide savings which far...

Despite solar cells made with perovskite recently crossed the 20 percent efficiency mark, researchers say there's still room to improve...

Exactly six decades ago, an amateur fossil hunter called Francis Tully came across an usual find some 50 miles south...

A lot of company nowadays offer genetic kits directly to consumers who can then have their genome sequenced on the...

What's the most important resource on the planet? Water of course.

Evidence suggests mindfulness meditation reduces both emotional and physical pain. Concerning the latter, we still don't know the underlying mechanisms...

The machine uses a high-velocity beam of electrons to cut through virtually any metal at least 15 times faster than...

. University of East Anglia researchers say storks prefer to live in Spain and Portugal because there's plenty of junk...

The health benefits of beer are well documented, and much of these are owed to the properties of hops.

T. Rex grew its way to the top of the food chain. To get there though, the dinosaur first had...

Lithium, the stuff the battery in your smartphone or notebook are made of, is a toxic substance and in short...

Inspired by ants, researchers mimicked the insects' individual super strength and collective hive mind in tiny robots. Each weighs only...

Kannan Soundararajan and Robert Lemke Oliver of Stanford University published a paper recently that is leaving mathematicians scratching their heads....

A wind or Aeolian harp is exactly what the name implies: the only musical instrument played by the wind.

Japanese researchers found a novel way to grow corneas in a dish starting from skin cells. The corneas were implanted...

Close to the dwarf planet's equator liies a roughly 4,000 square miles plateau called Piri Planitia, which particularly stands out....

A new approach to removing ice could make driving during winter less annoying, and flying a lot less dangerous. It...

Inspired to 'make tomorrow now', an industrious team of Saudi researchers baffled everyone by demonstrating an artificial skin made with...

Familiar terrorist footage includes masked murders proudly posing with two 'V' shaped fingers over the corpse of their victims. Many...

Japanese researchers have identified a bacteria that eats PET, a kind of plastic widely employed for bottles. This is the...

In just 7 years, a disease called white-nose syndrome has killed more than 5 million North American bats, almost wiping...

Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to...

Imagine spending half of your day chewing food like our cousins, the chimpanzees. You'd never get anything done. Strikingly, human...

It's common for species to be named after a person, most often the scientist who first discovered them. Recently, many...

Mechanical engineers at Brigham Young University are combining the versatility of origami with mechanical know-how to produce the smallest surgical...

The Japanese great tit, a bird closely related to the more familiar North American chickadee, uses complex calls in different...

It seems that while most of us do not like to behave like extortionists, we choose to elect those that...

You might be able to grip, grab and direct hand movements with a prosthesis as if it were your own...

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...