Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is covered in a thick icy crust, but beneath it might lie an ocean of liquid water...

Reconstructive surgery just got an upgrade after a patient who had lost four ribs and part of his sternum had a...

Hydrogen is a great medium for storing energy. It can be used as an alternative to batteries to store the...

Love is complicated enough, even without intense scrutiny from scientists. Do we fall in love with someone because we find...

We all need a bit of quiet in our lives sometimes, but have you ever took a minute to ponder...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the slumping price of oil - the lowest in six years -...

Humans are naturally lazy, as they'll always find a way to execute a movement, even a simple act like walking,...

According to a report issued by the Pew Research Center, American adults have a sub-par knowledge of basic science. The...

This fashionable triangle-shaped glassware isn't an office decoration, but a true vestige of the early analytical chemistry. It's called the...

A promising diagnosis test can accurately detect cancer in 7 out of 10 patients just by reading telltale genetic mutations...

An innovative 'kirigami' design allows solar cells to flex and twist to follow the sun throughout the day. This means 20...

Shipping cyanobacteria to Mars or dumping greenhouse gas into its thin atmosphere might be too slow. Elon Musk is in...

Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who owns among other things Fox News, also known as the most despicable garbage journalism...

A daring team of researchers squeezed themselves through a long vertical chute and descended some 40 meters beneath the surface....

On an explosive growth trajectory, the total operational solar photovoltaic capacity in the US just passed the 20 GW milestone...

Basques - an ethnic group from modern day Spain - were thought to be direct descendants of hunter-gatherers who had...

A insightful incursion into the lives of sperm whales shows just how similar these gentle marine giants are to us....

Researchers detected unusually high levels of toxic metals, including the dangerous neurotoxin methylmercury, in a pristine coastal area and lake....

Networked gadgets and gizmos embedded in every day items - collectively known as the Internet of Things - are beginning...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope jointly used their instruments to identify the oldest galaxy yet seen....

It's been only a decade since the Human Genome Project finished its task of mapping all the code that makes...

There's no cure for Alzheimer's - the devastating neurodegenerative disease which causes progressive dementia in 5.3 million Americans - only...

This is the biggest news that no one seems to notice. Sunvault Energy and the Edison Power Company quietly announced...

The rate of growth in the number of high paying jobs in the US has steadily declined since 2000, which...

The right music can evoke powerful emotions seemingly out of the blue, but under the influence of LSD the musical...

A wormhole - a tunnel that connects two distant region in space by creating a shortcut through the spacetime -...

Americans' love affair with coffee has turned into an obsession. More than half report drinking coffee at least 3.1 cups...

When your plastic device breaks, there's basically nothing else to do but shrug, try to glue it then go on...

It's ludicrous, but it might just be crazy enough to work. On Monday, during the American Institute of Aeronautics and...

An innovative concentrated solar power design called the "Solar Sunflower" was recently demonstrated by Swiss researchers at Airlight Energy and...

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....