After shutting down its nuclear reactors, Japan needs to look elsewhere to generate energy. Problem is Japan is kinda crowded,...

"Unless you've been in a wheelchair, it's very difficult to see all the various small details - what a person...

To the romantic eye, a tree swaying in the wind is a testimony of nature's heart beat. An engineer might...

The size of the brain isn't essential to superior cognitive abilities -- its shape and packing mechanism matter a lot,...

In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park poachers set thousands of snares to trap wildlife for meat. Inadvertently mountain gorillas -- listed...

Using estimates of how many people are involved in some of the major alleged conspiracies, one scientist modeled how long...

Some 2,000 years ago, there were only 170 million people in the whole planet. How did we get to 7...

A general trend was found: those animals with the highest brain/body size ratio were better at solving a problem they...

Researchers at European Space Agency (ESA) collected fungi that live in one of the harshest places on Earth -- McMurdo...

A German astrophysicist decoded ancient Babylonian tablets stuffed with computations. His analysis reveals that these were used by the ancient...

Considering how inhospitable Mars is, given there's no air, -55C temperatures, radiation and all, you might think the quality of...

Here we go again. A new study which investigated so-called addictive effects of food got picked up by the media...

Right now coal accounts for 39% of all the world's generated electricity, with gas coming in second but still trailing...

Marine biologists study microbes in the waters above natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico stumbled upon something unexpected....

Astronomers find the parent of an orphan planet. The finding makes the solar system the biggest in the galaxy.

A team at University of British Columbia claims that a type of clay found northwest of Vancouver is effective against...

Water pollution is a big issue, and so far there isn't one single system capable of reliably filtering toxic heavy...

'Don't judge a book by its cover' right about sums up the Human Library Project. The concept is simple, but...

Before WWII, there weren't that many plastics around. Today, we use so much that we could literally plaster the planet...

In a time when a barrel of oil can cost less than a ... barrel, the EV market suffers. Market...

When the researchers analyzed some of the most cited contrarian climate change papers -- by other scientists or in the...

Researchers found a way to manipulate single cells in three dimensions using sound waves. They devised acoustic tweezers that can...

Oddly enough, one study found being more lenient with return deadlines actually reduced returns, not increased them. With this in...

An altered periodic table that shows how each elements was forged.

The Namib Desert Beetle lives in one of the most inhospitable and driest places on Earth, in the southwest coast...

A new study by Oxford researchers suggests that we all would like to maximize our profits, it's just that some...

A groundbreaking research out of the Salk Institute suggests synapses are 10 times bigger in the hippocampus. Conversely, this means...

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.