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...

Taking inspiration from nature, scientists in South Korea hijacked millions of years of evolution and devised their very own robotic...

Boy, was this year a scorcher! Well, what can I say, apart from get ready for more. According to an...

Most of the yarn used today is synthetic, but in the last couple of years yarn sourced from biological raw...

Japan just powered up the world's most powerful laser, a monster that shines a 2-petawatt pulse of light. The pulse...

A geological survey found Washington DC and the surrounding Chesapeake Bay region is gradually sinking. By the end of the...

Different ant species employ various tactics to forage food and keep the colony in tip top shape. Most often scouts...

Chinese researchers sampled water from an underground aquifer in the Tarim Basin and found these store vast quantities of carbon...

Are bullies hard wired (genetically) to be abusive to their peers or are most bullies the product of their environment...

In what can only be heralded as a major breakthrough, a group at Arizona State University reports the demonstration of...

Following a three-year-long trial in the rice of fields of China, scientists report a new genetically modified strain that promises...

A novel analysis reveals T-rex and other theropods - the top land predators that dominated the planet for no less than...

Distilling tastes and flavors to their most basic constituents is essential to making food the tastiest it can be. We...

Democrat Hillary Clinton is maybe the first presidential candidate to make tackling climate change a central point. Now we actually...

Even when people are genuinely trying to select a profile picture for a social network or to serve for an...

The revelation that DNA chemically self-assembles to build life was a game changer. Now, DNA's self-assembly capability is moving past...

Companies in the US might be mandated by the FDA to list the amount of added sugar in their products...

Scientists rely on a method called radiocarbon dating to determine the age of fossils or artifacts. With little or no...

In a first of its kind experiment, biologists found out to everyone's surprise that boa constrictors kill prey by cutting...

Nearly all communication devices today, whether we're speaking of smartphones, tablets or notebooks, rely on WiFi signal to connect to...

For over a century since it was described, a peculiar type of ice known as hair-ice or ice wool has...

An 80-year-old man suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - the most common cause of sight loss in the world...

Facial recognition and motion tracking is already old news. The next level is describing what you do or what's going...

A Koran manuscript etched on sheep or goat skin may be the oldest discover so far, according to a radiocarbon...

A female decorated cricket, with spermatophore attached, dismounts male. Photo: tomhouslay.com Meet one of slickest and twisted virus nature has...

Archaeologists used innovative techniques to gain new insights about the third-millennium urban crisis in Mesopotamia some 4,000 years ago. This marked...

Cone snails have one of the most dangerous venom in the animal kingdom. This complex venomous soup is made up...

Duke University researchers made micro CT scans of the skull of ancient monkey and found its brain, though tiny by...

One this day, 53 years ago, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory detonated a thermonuclear device 194 meters below the Nevada...

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...