In what's perhaps one of the most amazing marine science study, a team of researchers scoured the world's oceans fishing...

According to the Chinese Central Television, China wants to land rover on the far side of the moon, also know...

Four cancer charities operated by the same family under a scamming scheme were sued by the Federal Trade Commission and...

Biologists have long suspected that cephalopods like the squid and cuttlefish have specialized proteins embedded in their skin, very similar...

There are two types of galaxies: 'alive' and 'dead' ones. Those galaxies that are still alive are called so because...

A freak accident from his childhood in Iceland caused Gudmundur Olafsson's right ankle to collapse. After 28 years of living...

A dedication ceremony was held today at the Advanced Laser Gravitational Wave Observatories (Advanced LIGO), a lab tasked with detecting...

The loud noise that usually airline passengers have to deal with in mid-flight can significantly alter how food tastes. According...

Don't make that face. It's not like you didn't see it coming, after all with each technological step forward porn...

With grace and steady robotic clippers, this high-end remote controlled surgical system was used to stitch a piece of skin...

At his commencement address at Rutgers University, Bill Nye - famous for popularizing science as the Science Guy - said...

Our bones are much lighter and weaker than those of our Paleolithic ancestors (11,000 to 33,000 years ago), but it's...

A Spanish startup called Vortex Bladeless has been receiving a lot hype recently once it unveiled a prototype for a...

A turtle named Akut-3 was fitted with a new, custom made 3-D printed jaw by doctors at the Research, Rescue...

That's the sun setting over the rim of Gale Crater on Mars, as shot by the Curiosity Rover. Notice some...

A mini-drone that fits in the palm of your hand could give the military an upper hand on the battlefield...

Fruit flies experience fear, one of the primary emotions, according to a new research that suggests there's much more to...

NASA has partnered with a private company to design and build an oxygen production facility for a Martian outpost or...

With all its cons and pros, at this time, nuclear power remains our best shot at decarbonizing the planet and...

We use the word "humane" to describe kind behavior and sympathy towards others, but the term might falsely lend some...

Sexual equality might be the mark of a civilized society, but it's definitely not a new thing. In fact, there's...

Though it's a deep ocean fish, the slender opah is actually fully warm blooded - the first of its kind...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara made a simple neural circuit comprised of 100 artificial synapses, which they used to classify...

Cuba, famous for its rum and cigars, might be one of the unlikeliest places people think of when cutting-edge biotech...

Printing your own mechanical parts or toys is really easy, not to mention fun, using a 3-D printer. But things...

At the Canadian Institute of Mining's annual convention, NASA scientists said exploration and prospecting of celestial bodies like the moon...

Most evolutionary biologists seem to agree, based on fossil record, that the birds of today are direct descendants of dinosaurs,...

Next Thing Co, a fledgling company started by three budding hardware enthusiasts, just released a KickStarter campaign in which they...

In 1976, Carl Sagan went on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson along with a strange contraption, that looked like...

Climate models and environmental monitoring missions are ever more reliant on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to scour the ocean depths...

Only six months ago, a 230-foot strip of road was covered in solar panels in the Netherlands. Since then, some...

Researchers at University of California Irvine exposed mice to radiation similar to the cosmic rays that permeate space and found...

This "drawing" might look like it was made by a kid in grade school, but make no mistake it symbolizes...

Graphene - the one atom thick sheet of carbon arranged in a hexagon lattice - is the strongest material known...

One of the perks of being a writer for ZME Science is that I frequently get to feature some really...

Over the last couple of years, cases of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) increased by 30%, according to...

Free will is considered the domain of philosophers, but this long lasting question might actually be put to rest by...

What does lightning sound like? Thunder. Well, what does thunder look like then? It's no trick question. Like all acoustic...

When it comes to artificial muscles, researchers at from National Taiwan University really know their onions. The team applied an...

A group of paleontologists have unearthed fossils preserved in pristine condition belonging to a new ancient avian species that lived...

Canadian researchers found that kids born out of parents with a history of sleepwalking are more likely to experience somnambulism....

Computer science and the major principles behind it.

Some news outlets were quick to label beards as toilets. I disagree.

Yesterday, Samantha Cristoforetti sipped the first coffee brewed in space using the newly delivered micro-gravity espresso machine. How befitting that...

Apart from echolocation, bats have another ace up their sleeve that makes them formidable flying animals: tiny hairs that sense...

For most smokers, the message that cigarettes are fatally bad for their health often doesn't come across. But if that...

Using the MUSE instrument aboard ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have made a three dimensional view of the famous...

Since 1990, Keith Londsdale went through no less than 45 different surgical procedures to remove basal cell carcinoma tumors, one...

Amid crashing oil prices and a divestment movement from fossil fuels, one of the most important banks in the world,...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reiterated its stance against modifying human embryos, after a paper published last...