In a recent TED talk, Hannah Fry outlines a mathematical formula that predicts long-lasting relationships. In her recent book, The...

A simple smartphone app combines the most reliable data and maps on global renewable energy potential, so you can get...

Children with autism spectrum disorder do not react as well to pleasant or foul smells compared to non-ASD children. Previously,...

Dylan O’Donnell, an amateur photographer, took one of the luckiest shots ever: the International Space Station past the moon. Any...

Paleontologists have discovered what looks like the earliest member of the Corytophanidae (also known as casquehead or helmeted lizards) judging...

The Danish-based Lego is one of the big companies in the world that's actually making large scale efforts to lower...

For the past couple of years, John Rogers, a materials science professor at the University of Illinois, has been working...

MIT engineers demonstrated a working spectrometer that took a huge leap in scale from a huge, bulky lab gear to...

In 2000, the CDC declared measles as eradicated in the US, meaning there was no more endemic transmission. That doesn't...

A team led by scientists at University of British Columbia highlights the impacts of climate change on the world's oceans...

A team at University of Chicago made the most comprehensive woolly mammoth genome sequencing ever. By comparing its genome with...

Rising temperatures are fundamentally changing the way Australia's bearded lizards get their gender. Basically, the lizard's sex is not dependent...

In the lab, a team UC Santa Barbara demonstrated that an artificial pancreas that can automatically deliver insulin shots at...

This little iron fish may look like a two bit souvenir, but what it can do is far more spectacular,...

Women's faces are more attractive to men when they hit peak ovulation, past research showed. It's not clear what the...

A breakthrough research found that male and female mice use different cells to signal pain. This could explain why both...

A report issued by the World Health Organization and UNICEF states 2.4 billion people lack access to proper toilets. Defecating...

Low and middle-income countries bear the most deaths associated with sugary drink consumption. About 3 out of 4 deaths related...

Despite a huge gap in public acceptance, the theory of evolution and natural selection is not a controversial theory. It...

Today, ray-finned fish make up 99% of all fish species, but it wasn't always like this. In an attempt to...

Some 10% of the energy generated by a car's engine is lost due to friction between tires and the pavement....

Just before sport camps and marathon training begins in the US, doctors report a new set of guidelines that should...

Mathematics is considered a problematic vocation, because, let's face it, mathematicians can be weird. But that's mostly because people don't...

A few days ago, the US supreme court ruled that same-sex marriage was hence forth legal in all states. To...

Paired with recent advances in graphene deposition and manufacturing, this sort of tech of could very well end up powering...

Despite what you might have seen or not seen, there are actually some fireflies living west of the Rocky Mountains,...

In the last couple of months, Japanese women flocked in unusual numbers to the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in...

We seem to be losing the war on elephant poachers, but a new toolset that involves tracing slaughter hotspots in...

In his book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", one of my favorite writers Philip K. Dick explores what sets...

Rwanda's Akagera national park will soon be home to seven lions flown in from South Africa. This is the first...

Studying the fossil remains of an ancient reptile-like creature, paleontologists gained valuable clues and insights that help explain how turtles...

A new mobile Ebola test can detect the virus using a single drop of blood and reports a positive or...

Neuroscientists have long posited that memories last as long as the connections in the brain, but putting this theory to...

Most people don't know what SPF is and many companies exploit this ignorance.

Racing at a pace of about 1 millions per day, the New Horizon craft is getting closer to Pluto and...

The weekends should be devoted to disconnecting from your job and focusing more on leisure, family and personal development. A...

This weekend, SpaceX is scheduled to deliver cargo and other much needed supplies to the International Space Station via its...

Anecdotal observations and even some studies claim that listening to extreme music like heavy metal, punk or hardcore causes anger...

When the freakish Hallucigenia was first discovered in the 1970s, paleontologists found it nearly impossible to distinguish heads from tail....

Fasting has been practiced since ancient times as a cleansing process, often accompanied by prayer and periods of seclusion. Famous...

Lexus, better known for its luxury cars, just released a teasing video unveiling what looks like a genuine hoverboard. But...

An extensive meta-analysis of 79 trials which studied the medical benefits of marijuana found that the various cannabinoid compounds did...

Viagra does things to you... but not skin cancer.

Researchers at University of Hawaii, Manoa in collaboration with a team from the University of Tokyo were surprised to find...

Don't you just hate it when you're looking for support for a service or app you bought, only to be...

NASA's spacecraft Dawn is currently orbiting Ceres - a dwarf planet and the largest object in the asteroid belt -...

More job opportunities could be created by investing clean energy sources than fossil fuels.

DNA analysis of the jawbone of a human who lived in modern day Romania some 40,000 years ago has the...

This Friday, the International Whaling Commission issued a report in which it states Japan has failed to provide any reasonable...