"Please enter a strong password", is now an ubiquitous greeting whenever we try to register online. Security experts advise we...

Couple of weeks ago, Volkswagen admitted it had cheated US tests to make its diesel cars seem more green than...

The Concorde was created by Britain's British Aircraft Corporation and France's Aérospatiale in the early 1960s. But it wasn't until...

After five years of painstakingly stitching together pictures of the Milky Way, astronomers from Ruhr University Bochum have finally completed...

We humans arguably came to dominate the world thanks to our dexterous hands, which allow gripping tools and manipulating objects....

Marijuana use has doubled among American adults from 2001 to 2013. About 10% of the population or 22 million are...

Bitcoin's blockchain database is shared by all nodes participating in a system - that's more computing power than Google has....

"No amount of alcohol should be considered safe to drink during any trimester of pregnancy," wrote the the American Academy...

Carbon nanotubes are a class of advanced materials that researchers think will transform electronics someday, but while great effort is...

The current procedure for Ebola survivors is wait 42 consecutive days for the tests to come back negative, then the...

In 2006, the US court found the tobacco industry guilty of a decades-long racketeering enterprise in which it conspired to...

Defecating outside comes at a great toll to the numerous, and often crowded Indian people. Lack of basic hygiene means...

It probably took a bit of convincing for man to turn wolves into dogs through domestication. At least this is...

Used to make almost everything from skyscraper girders, automobiles, and appliances to thumb tacks and paper clips, steel is one...

You've probably heard some of the headlines: eBay hacked; Apple hacked etc. It's infuriating when your private records, which you...

The last time humans set foot on the moon was 1972. Feeling confident it had clearly showed its superiority over...

With today's propulsion tech, it takes at least 1.5 years for a manned crew to reach Mars, and at least...

Every year Nikon holds the Small World Photomicrography Competition awarding the very finest photographers that capture the essence of the...

This Friday, the CEOs of the some of the biggest oil & gas companies in the world, including BP, Shell...

Previously stored away in government archives, some 170,000 photographs from the time of the Great Depression have been now released...

Solar energy could be turned up a notch not by some exotic material or chip, but surprisingly by viruses. A...

By 1918, the Indian born, self-thought mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was already making headlines all over the world, recognized as...

Besides chirps and squeaks, you'll also find bear roars, primate calls, and blue whale songs. In total: 150,000 recordings of...

Bill Gates, the wealthiest man in the world in 2014, has for the past decade concentrated his efforts and resources...

A while ago, aerospace giant applied a patent for a most peculiar propulsion system that uses high power lasers to...

"Spring is coming," said no Stark ever. You've already noticed that the traditional starting dates for each season have become...

One of the most important open questions in paleobiology today is whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded. Their appearance suggests...

Chronic inflammation of the colon has been recognized as a leading factor contributing to senescence and age-related diseases. Previously, scientists...

A study assessed how sea level rise at the hand of global warming will affect coastal populations in the United...

Earlier this week Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to twitter announcing a new software update for the Model S will...

The battlefield is shifting from trench soldiers to cyberspace and unmanned machines. As always, when a new technology of war...

In 1847, at the tender age of 27, Ada Lovelace became the world's first programmer, more than a hundred years...

That's the year man first set foot on the moon. Our computer tech has shot even farther away, though.

For the past two weeks the scientific community was stirred by news that a biologist captured a male moustached kingfisher,...

Tourism is affecting wildlife in more than one way.

The remarkably well preserved fossil of a wing that belonged to an early Cretaceous bird suggests some of the first...

Less than two months away, 200 governments will join the U.N. Paris talks where an international agreement might be reached...

Capitalizing a more than a decade's worth of neuroscience and computer science research, an international team of 82 researchers from...

The complete genetic code book of a person who lived 4,500 years ago in Ethiopia was completed by US researchers....

Possibly the greatest demographic challenge China is facing has due to do with a hugely discrepant gender imbalance.

Are homosexuals hard wired this way or merely the product of their environment? Some argue that its both, but whether...

Our planet's magnetic field is the first and ultimate shield that guards life from the elements of space, particularly radiation....

A newly founded artificial intelligence lab, called Vicarious, wants to build the world's first, unified artificial intelligence that can match...

The feel-good, floating sensation people get after a good run is analogous to smoking pot. Researchers came to the conclusion...

If you've ever brushed past the tailpipe of a running car, then you know just how smoking hot it can...

Quantum computing is one of the future's transitional technologies destined to transform human society, along with advanced materials like graphene...

While surveying the island of Sulawesi right in the center of Indonesia, a group of researchers came across a previously...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed the state of cactus populations around the world and found almost a...

Watches might keep time in an absolute manner, but people don't. Each person perceives time differently depending on mood, and...

A novel mathematical model can weigh the mass of a pulsar - a rapidly rotating magnetized neutran star - using...