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...
Ocean trek reveals the massive diversity of the oceanic plankton [with photos]
In what's perhaps one of the most amazing marine science study, a team of researchers scoured the world's oceans fishing...
China wants to be the first to land on the Dark Side of the Moon
According to the Chinese Central Television, China wants to land rover on the far side of the moon, also know...
You can’t get lower than this: four charities scammed $187m in donations meant for children with cancer
Four cancer charities operated by the same family under a scamming scheme were sued by the Federal Trade Commission and...
More than meets the eye: Octopus can perceive light directly through its skin
Biologists have long suspected that cephalopods like the squid and cuttlefish have specialized proteins embedded in their skin, very similar...
A crime in the sky: galaxies die by strangulation
There are two types of galaxies: 'alive' and 'dead' ones. Those galaxies that are still alive are called so because...
The first mind-controlled leg prosthesis is amazing!
A freak accident from his childhood in Iceland caused Gudmundur Olafsson's right ankle to collapse. After 28 years of living...
LIGO upgrade signals the hunt for elusive gravitational waves
A dedication ceremony was held today at the Advanced Laser Gravitational Wave Observatories (Advanced LIGO), a lab tasked with detecting...
Some foods taste better (or less atrocious) while flying
The loud noise that usually airline passengers have to deal with in mid-flight can significantly alter how food tastes. According...
Teledildonics is here: sex toys linked to virtual reality
Don't make that face. It's not like you didn't see it coming, after all with each technological step forward porn...
Watch this robotic surgical system stitch a grape
With grace and steady robotic clippers, this high-end remote controlled surgical system was used to stitch a piece of skin...
Bill Nye, Science Guy: climate change will consume us like WWII did our parents
At his commencement address at Rutgers University, Bill Nye - famous for popularizing science as the Science Guy - said...
Humans bones became lighter and frailer once farming became widespread
Our bones are much lighter and weaker than those of our Paleolithic ancestors (11,000 to 33,000 years ago), but it's...
Are these joint-shaped turbines the future of wind power?
A Spanish startup called Vortex Bladeless has been receiving a lot hype recently once it unveiled a prototype for a...
Sea Turtle gets a new 3D-printed titanium jaw after being hit by a boat’s propeller
A turtle named Akut-3 was fitted with a new, custom made 3-D printed jaw by doctors at the Research, Rescue...
A gorgeous blue sunset on Mars
That's the sun setting over the rim of Gale Crater on Mars, as shot by the Curiosity Rover. Notice some...
Military wants to use swarms of disposable “Cicada” drones: dropping flies behind enemy lines
A mini-drone that fits in the palm of your hand could give the military an upper hand on the battlefield...
Flies feel fear too, but do they have other emotions as well?
Fruit flies experience fear, one of the primary emotions, according to a new research that suggests there's much more to...
Algae and bacteria will provide oxygen for astronauts living on Mars
NASA has partnered with a private company to design and build an oxygen production facility for a Martian outpost or...
If the world built nuclear power plants at the rate Sweden had, there would be no need for fossil in 25 years
With all its cons and pros, at this time, nuclear power remains our best shot at decarbonizing the planet and...