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...

Maybe the most amazing of social insects, ants use complex cues of pheromones to determine to which cast in the...

The buzzing racket of quadcopters and drones may be stressing wildlife, a new study shows. Drones have long ceased to...

Some conservationists are considering introducing the Tasmanian devil, currently only found in Australia's island state of Tasmania, back to the...

A lot of women in their thirties choose to delay motherhood by freezing their eggs to later fertilize them when...

Every five years for more than a century, National Geographic releases an atlas of the world complete with the latest...

Faced with the worst drought in recorded history, officials in California are turning to all sorts of creative methods to...

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers devised a new method that grows graphene nanoribbons directly on a germanium wafer. The ribbons are...

Let's face it, even the most cutting edge robots developed today are stumbling goofs. So, in an effort to make...

A new report presented by United Nations officials at the American Statistical Association meeting in Seattle estimates that by 2100...

A French company called 3Dvarius partnered with musician Laurent Bernadac to see just how far they could stretch 3D printing...

Both bathroom decorators and mathematicians have a reason to rejoice (how often does that happen?). Using a computer algorithm, a...

In the latest in a long string of lawsuits filled against fracking operations, a Texas family is claiming damages after...

Central America is home to one of the greatest biodiversity on the planet. It's here among its rainforests that you...

No matter how puritans might hate it, the English language, as any language for that matter, is constantly shifting, expanding...

After graphene proved to be one of the greatest discovery of the century, material scientists became inspired to see if...

Women often complain the AC is turned way too high at work. Many are forced by necessity to come to...

There's more to seminal fluid, which makes up to 70% of semen's composition, than procreation. Scientists are only recently beginning...

Evenwin Precision Technology, an electronics processing company, sacked 90% of its employees, replaced them with robots and saw productivity soar....

If you were born in 1900, you could call yourself lucky if you'd seen a day past your 50th birthday....

Self-driving cars have a promising future, and leading the pack technologically is Google, now a household name that has long...

On Wednesday, the Department of Defense issued a report in which it highlights the global security implications of climate change....

Plants signal stress when they're affected by drought, high temperatures or a disease using the same chemical and electrical signals...

A couple decades ago, satellite were solely the provision of governments, since they were the only ones that could afford...