A startling report by The Guardian reveals how the American Egg Board (AEB) - a government-backed board which gets a...

Seahorses are a unique oddity seeing how males, not females, carry the pregnancy and deliver the young.

Right now the coal business is arguably living through its most dire days ever. Nearly 300 mines have closed in...

Doctors found that a British man has been excreting live polio virus for nearly 28 years, despite being vaccinated. These...

According to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), there's now a mature El Niño present in the Pacific Ocean. As is...

This bizarre creature looks like a cross between a scorpion and a boat, which is pretty accurate considering it was...

Littered with over 150 trees and boasting a stunning asymmetrical architecture, 25 Verde - an apartment complex in Turin, Italy...

One of the largest banks in the world says choosing not to invest in renewable energy and divest from fossil...

Don't you just hate it when you just bought a delicious ice cream cone only to see it dripping before...

This amazing collection of space posters will light up your living room.

Is this our most obvious, useless headline yet? Might be, but don't hate the messenger. I'm just reiterating the findings...

Just like wristwatches in an age when everybody has a mobile phone, hourglasses today are kept out of aesthetic, and...

Cryogenic sleep is usually the stuff of science fiction, most recently featured in the award winning blockbuster Interstellar. Of course,...

A month ago the New Horizon spacecraft made a historic flyby over Pluto, marking the first time a man-made instrument...

Generally speaking, men and women seem value money differently.

In just a couple of weeks the price of oil, and commodity in general, have plunged. This Friday, oil was...

Life expectancy has gone up by six years on average throughout the world since 1990, according to a survey led...

The trend is clear: medicine is becoming more and more personalized. Ultimately, when you'll enter a hospital for a diagnosis...

The Department of the Navy (DON) announced it will make the largest investment in renewable energy by an federal entity....

U.S. Geological Survey scientists report the Grand Canyon's food webs are contaminated with dangerously high levels of mercury and selenium....

Nothing to freak out about. This is perfectly normal.

Nothing can escape a black hole, not even light, any scientists schooled in modern physics will tell you. Eminent British...

Peter Ward might be the luckiest biologist ever. In 1984, he and colleague Bruce Saunders were among the first to...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. In a bid to curb global emissions, the carbon credit scheme...

We're all guilty of bringing home useless items like flyers or old computer electronics from time to time, hoping that...

Mass extinctions present both a mortal threat and opportunity. During these events, a great deal of all terrestrial and marine...

A beautifully preserved skull fragment belonging to the earliest baboon species was found in a South African cave. The site...

The revolutionary wave that swept Arab nations beginning with 2011 displaced millions and cost the lives of hundreds of thousands....

Though initially made for narcoleptics (people having trouble sleeping), many soon caught on that modafinil can enhance cognitive abilities. Right...

When someone yawns near us, we naturally feel an irresistible urge to yawn in response. Even dogs seem to yawn...

Just in time for back-to-school season, a group of researchers report that lice in more than 25 states have become...

These subatomic particles are created in the aftermath of violent cosmic events, like the explosion of a star or interactions...

Though humans might not be as fierce as a lion or white shark, we're definitely the greatest predatory species in...

A company from Japan wants to become the first to advertise a product on the moon. The sports drink producer,...

Possibly the most hyper animal, the hummingbird, feeds by darting its thin tongue 20 times per second inside the flower...

Matter accounts for 31.7% of the mass-energy content of the universe, and 84.5% of the matter is dark matter. In...

Virtual reality and 4K displays, coupled with ever more powerful processors and graphic chipsets will see gaming make a huge...

A team at George Washington University has found a way to hit two birds with one stone: mitigate climate change...

Researchers at University of Southampton, England report finding an alternative pathway to activate a key enzyme involved in cellular glucose...

For the first time, a group of researchers from Canada showed that the grime on buildings can emit ozone when...

Seriously - after making a complex cross-scenario examination, scientists found that given humanity's current population growth momentum, not even WW3,...

Octopuses are like aliens and there are few creatures weirder than these eight legged critters. They survive freezing waters, perceive...

Video games don't make kids more aggressive. This myth needs to stop.

Glaciers covering Asia's Tian Shan mountains have lost a quarter of their mass over the past 50 years, at a...

One of the most peculiar languages in the world, whistled Turkish, is challenging the long-standing idea that the left brain...

Two of the biggest pension funds in California have lost $5 billion in assets last year by sticking to their...

A drug called Flibanserin, also known under the name of Addyi, is marketed as the first designed to boost a...

Thoth Technology, a Canadian company, was granted an US patent for a space elevator. Technically, though, it's not exactly a...

After Utrecht, another Dutch town is joining the basic income social experiment to see whether receiving an unconditional sum of...