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...

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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...

A novel, previously unseen self-repair mechanism was reported by a team of researchers at Caltech who studied the moon jellyfish....

Some 30 million years after dinosaurs emerged, they managed to rise up and dominate much of the world - then...

A group of international researchers unveiled the world's thinnest light bulb. Remarkably it uses a carbon-based filament, just like Thomas...

Whaaaat? It's just a matter of math, really. Fold an A4 once and it will be twice as thick, fold...

Sampling impact glass from the ancient craters that litter the surface for Mars might prove key to settling a long...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports it has classed all chimpanzees, whether captive or wild, under the Endangered Species...

Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, people have using the grounded seeds of the Moringa oleifera tree to clean...

In a breakthrough moment, researchers at MIT successfully cooled sodium potassium gas molecules (NaK) near absolute zero. At this temperature,...

Daimler, the giant auto maker from Germany, is releasing its own version of a large-storage battery on the heel's of...

It's nothing new to hear about chimps or monkeys drinking alcohol, most often stolen from unsuspecting tourists, but a new...

The SpaceX Dragon crew capsule's milestone safety state which took place the other day passed NASA's approval board. Back then,...

Computers and water don't mix well, but that didn't stop Manu Prakash, a bioengineering assistant professor at Stanford, to think...

Traces of soft tissue and red blood cells were discovered by accident by a team of paleontologists and biologists while...

A group at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology developed a sophisticated facial recognition software specially designed to identify birds for...

There are some important issues nowadays in which scientists and laymen seem to disagree on. For instance, there's climate change....

Canadian paleontologists discovered a new dinosaur which looks strikingly similar to the famous Triceratops. While the two are very similar...

The nature of bright swirl patterns, some extending for hundreds of kilometers, on the moon's surface has eluded researchers for...

Paleontologists have discovered the wonderfully preserved fossil of a prehistoric bird which flew through the forests of the ancient supercontinent...

High up in Chile's Las Campanas Observatory, right in the middle of the desert, work will soon start to build...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit health advocacy group based in Washington, DC, just released its...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison designed an innovate and sustainable solution to the global electronic waste problem: make the...

In its “Energy Security and Sustainability Strategy” (ES2 Strategy) report, the US army outlines the steps it should take to...