Moon Jellyfish morphs back into symmetry after losing limbs
A novel, previously unseen self-repair mechanism was reported by a team of researchers at Caltech who studied the moon jellyfish....
Why there weren’t dinosaurs in the Tropics during their early history
Some 30 million years after dinosaurs emerged, they managed to rise up and dominate much of the world - then...
World’s thinnest light bulb built using a graphene filament
A group of international researchers unveiled the world's thinnest light bulb. Remarkably it uses a carbon-based filament, just like Thomas...
If you fold an A4 sheet of paper 103 times its thickness will roughly be the size of the Universe
Whaaaat? It's just a matter of math, really. Fold an A4 once and it will be twice as thick, fold...
Glass in Martian craters might hold clues to ancient life
Sampling impact glass from the ancient craters that litter the surface for Mars might prove key to settling a long...
All chimps – wild or captive alike – now classed as ‘endangered’ in the US
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports it has classed all chimpanzees, whether captive or wild, under the Endangered Species...
These seeds purify water by killing bacteria. Just add them along with sand in water
Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, people have using the grounded seeds of the Moringa oleifera tree to clean...
Scientists cool molecules just a hair over absolute zero (1,000,000 times colder than space)
In a breakthrough moment, researchers at MIT successfully cooled sodium potassium gas molecules (NaK) near absolute zero. At this temperature,...
Mercedes’ own response to Tesla’s home battery
Daimler, the giant auto maker from Germany, is releasing its own version of a large-storage battery on the heel's of...
Some chimps like to drink alcohol habitually. “So, a chimp walks in a bar…”
It's nothing new to hear about chimps or monkeys drinking alcohol, most often stolen from unsuspecting tourists, but a new...
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule passse critical safety test – closer to ferrying astronauts to ISS
The SpaceX Dragon crew capsule's milestone safety state which took place the other day passed NASA's approval board. Back then,...
This computer clocks uses water droplets, manipulating information and matter at the same time
Computers and water don't mix well, but that didn't stop Manu Prakash, a bioengineering assistant professor at Stanford, to think...
Blood and collagen found in 75-million-year-old ‘crap’ fossils
Traces of soft tissue and red blood cells were discovered by accident by a team of paleontologists and biologists while...
Your smartphone could be a digital ornithologist: software recognizes birds from photos
A group at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology developed a sophisticated facial recognition software specially designed to identify birds for...
Why people hate GMOs (when they shouldn’t)
There are some important issues nowadays in which scientists and laymen seem to disagree on. For instance, there's climate change....
Paleontologist finds new horned-dinosaur species, calls it “Hellboy” then writes a marriage proposal in the paper
Canadian paleontologists discovered a new dinosaur which looks strikingly similar to the famous Triceratops. While the two are very similar...
![A bright feature known as Reiner Gamma snakes across the lunar surface in this 1967 image from Lunar Orbiter 2. It is one of several features known as lunar swirls. They are thin layers of material that often form swirls or squiggles. Planetary scientists are still trying to understand their origin. [NASA]](https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/reiner-gamma-3-lnr-orbtr-2.webp)
Bizarre swirls on the moon’s surface likely made by comet impact
The nature of bright swirl patterns, some extending for hundreds of kilometers, on the moon's surface has eluded researchers for...
Early bird flew through ancient supercontinet’s forests with arrow feathers
Paleontologists have discovered the wonderfully preserved fossil of a prehistoric bird which flew through the forests of the ancient supercontinent...
World’s largest telescope to begin construction soon following $500 million funding
High up in Chile's Las Campanas Observatory, right in the middle of the desert, work will soon start to build...
The most unhealthy, calorie ridden, sodium rich restaurant meals in America
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit health advocacy group based in Washington, DC, just released its...
Scientists demonstrate full working biodegradable wooden chips. No, the electronic kind
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison designed an innovate and sustainable solution to the global electronic waste problem: make the...
Military energy report downplays oil in favor of renewable energy
In its “Energy Security and Sustainability Strategy” (ES2 Strategy) report, the US army outlines the steps it should take to...
This is what the largest emerald in North America looks like
The Houston Museum of Natural Science is one of the most impressive in the world, curating rare and indigenous wildlife...
Meet the world’s first robot chef, for the rich and lazy
Tired of cooking your own food, hiring help or eating out? Tired of eating, for that matter? Just kidding. The...
Bonobo anatomy offers clues on how our body evolved
A pair of anthropologists compared the anatomical features o bonobos to those of homo sapiens and other apes to infer...
Biologists discover two new marsupial species that have sex until they die. Ironically, they’re endangered
A team of biologists from Queensland discovered two new species belonging to a marsupial genus known for mating until it...
Stephen Hawking doubts someone of his talent and condition would be supported today as he was
Speaking at the event that celebrated his 50th year as a fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius...
Household gadgets powered wirelessly using a typical Wi-Fi router
A couple of simple gadgets, like a smartphone or low-res camera, along with a couple of sensors were powered wirelessly...
On Mars, auroras are blue and visible to the naked eye. Here’s a simulation
Mars has auroras too, and in addition to the red and green tinted Northern Lights here on Earth, these also...
NASA’s deceleration system for Martian landings looks like an UFO. [UPDATED: launch postponed]
Today, NASA is performing a new test round for its low-density supersonic decelerator (LDSD), which is basically a giant stop...
Amazon holds contest to see who’s the best robot that can replace a warehouse worker
Over the weekend, Amazon - a company that employs more than 50,000 people in its warehouses alone - organized a...
Lightsail responds after eight day of silence in space. Bill Nye: ‘it’s alive!’
After a successful launch and deploy to Earth's orbit on the back of the powerful United Launch Alliance Atlas V...
Scientists light the brain of mice to recall their lost memories
A team at MIT in collaboration with the Riken Brain Science Institute in Japan activated the lost memories of mice,...
Third of endangered saiga antelope population killed by unidentified disease
Some 120,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes were killed by a mysterious disease since mid-May in Kazakhstan, where 90% of the...
Why Swiss cheese has holes (it’s not the mice)
A team at Agroscope, a Swiss agricultural research center, reports what lends the Swiss cheese its uncanny hole-ridden appearance: tiny...
Leaving the nest: early humans migrated from Africa through North, rather than South
Archaic homo sapiens left Africa, the wellspring of humanity, some 60,000 years ago migrating North, via a route passing through...
Tattoos can cause severe adverse reactions in the skin 1 out of 10 times
One in four people in the US has a tattoo, and if you're part of this statistic you know how...
Mice in space grow thinner skin and more hair, but how safe is micro-g for humans?
Six mice were spent 91 days on board the Internationals Space Station in 2009, or seven years in the life...
Global carbon pricing schemes value climbs to $50 billion – still a trifle compared to oil subsidies
According to the World Bank, the total value of carbon pricing schemes - including emission trading schemes (ETS) and carbon...
Squeezing Schrödinger’s cat to measure sensitive quantum states
Researchers at ETH Zurich "squeezed" the quantum states of a calcium ion to make it easily distinguishable, i.e. they measured...
New research challenges aging consensus by reversing mitochondrial anomalies in 97-year-old cells
A team led by Professor Jun-Ichi Hayashi from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, known as the white lion to...
UN: fewer hungry people worldwide, but still a long way to go
The number of hungry people worldwide has dropped to 800 million, down from a billion more than a quarter century...
Some influential studies are “sleeping beauties”, going unnoticed for decades after publishing
A study which combed through millions of research papers published over the span of a century measured their citations and...
Key protein that prevents Ebola outbreak found. Preventive vaccine now in works
A breakthrough study confirmed what scientists have long suspected: Ebola attaches itself to a singular, "gateway" protein to infect hosts....
Ecstasy might be used to relieve Anxiety in Autistic adults in new clinical trial
Some researchers are considering a pilot treatment that involves MDMA, the active psychoactive ingredient in ecstasy pills, to help adults...
Scientists make single-molecule diode: the farthest we can go with electronic minituarization
A team at Columbia University School of Engineering designed a new kind of diode comprised of a single molecule capable...
UAE moves to space: new space agency, academic programs and Mars mission in 2020
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Monday its strategic framework for a newly established space agency, and also the...
Robot learns by doing. Starts off plain stupid, then grows smarter – just like us
Using a novel deep learning algorithm, a team at UC Berkeley demonstrated a robot that learns on the fly and...
LHC back in business after two year hiatus: already breaks record
Two years ago, following the discovery of the Higgs boson - heralded as one of the greatest scientific achievements of...
Obese teens are much more susceptible to junk food commercials, brain scans reveal
It's no secret that TV food commercials stimulate pleasure and reward centers in the brain, after all advertisers wouldn't pay...