At the beginning of the year, ZME Science reported 2014 was the 18th straight year to have surpassed average 20th-century...

Republican voters, not to mention those in power, are notorious for their refutal of man-made climate change, yet according to...

Despite ebooks and their corresponding electronic reading devices have become extremely popular, surprisingly most young adults and children prefer reading...

Hearing loss can be devastating: you lose friends, become ever trapped inside your head and alienated from society. Yet, only...

Researchers at Stanford University coated flexible textile fibers with metallic nanowires to form a cohesive network that acts as a...

The most comprehensive study of its kind found that people working more than  48 hours a week are at a...

A far from definite, yet highly interesting explanation for the origin of language was recently proposed - not by linguists or...

Did you know it rains more in Miami, Orlando and NYC than in London?

CT shines in its ability to image tissue inside the body otherwise unapproachable using other methods. All of the GIFs...

People spend more of their time asleep as babies than at any other point in their lives, but even if...

Swiss scientists demonstrated a flexible ribbon-like implant that attaches itself to a paralyzed rat's spinal cord, allowing the animal to...

When the flu hits, an unmistakable feeling of drowsiness sinks in. Washington State University Spokane scientists have now found a...

If the leaf really works as the hype would have us believe, then it's really a fantastic display of ingenuity.

An inspired entrepreneur, Shigeharu Shimamura, took an old semiconductor factory that was abandoned following the 2011 Japan disaster and turned...

We've come to understand that human players will never stand a chance against a computer with enough fire power at...

Only humans and great apes can recognize themselves when looking in a mirror, but new findings suggest that it's possible...

By combing biomechatronics and aesthetics, William Root developed a prototype that's a custom fit for each wearer, uses a minimal...

Birds are experts at avoiding predators, quickly dodging out of harms way when felt threatened. Likewise, they're fantastic at navigating...

Following the success of his 2014 Cosmos, the famous astrophysicist and science communicator just nabbed a weekly late-night series for...

Major automaker Toyota announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it would release all of its nearly...

Since the mid-XIXth century average global temperatures have risen by ~0.8 degrees Centigrade, yet this figure would have been much...

An open letter authored by more than 65 biologists calls for conservation groups and efforts to take a step back and...

Finnish researchers analyzed meteorological data gathered over the past 166 years and found the country's average monthly temperatures have increased...

For a while, the general consensus was that long term memories are stored in synapses. A new  UCLA research topples...

The effects of climate change on food stock quality is well documented, yet a new study suggests that climate change...

You might be surprised to find mechanical calculators - completely analog computational devices with no electrical parts - competed shoulder...

Hopes are high this time of year, but before your make your New Year's resolution you might want to consider...

Psychology is maybe most valuable when it exposes our inherent biases and what's commonly known as irrational thinking. But you'd...

The latest in brain-computer interface technology was recently demonstrated after woman with quadriplegia shaped a sophisticated robotic hand with ten degrees...

Security experts have devised a novel authentication system that exploits quantum effects to make fraud-proof credit cards or IDs. Called Quantum-Secure...

Superconductivity or zero electrical resistance at room temperature is any physicist's dream, but so far the challenges have proven too...

As far as manned spaceflight is concerned, all attention seems to be directed toward Mars, which makes sense after all...

Microscopes have gone a long since  Zacharias Jansen first invented them in the 1590s. Besides optical telescopes, we now have...

New York state officials have chosen to ban fracking also known as hydraulic fracturing after a two-year period of review...

An expedition that drilled 2,400m beneath the seabed off Japan - the deepest marine drilling ever -  found life in cores...

Widespread use of computers is said to make people dumber or more prone to forgetfulness. It's true, while we're less...

Amazingly, 19 percent of all Australian households have solar panels or solar water heaters installed, according to  the Australian Bureau...

One of the most interesting projects in science today are the  BRAIN Initiative in the US and the Human Brain...

There isn't a less dreaded sight in any respectable bar than a beer bottle gushing foam. It's not the bartender's...

We've previously told you how our ancestors' adaptation to metabolizing alcohol which first happened some 10 million years ago may...

Moore's law says that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles every two years, hence doubling also the...

A very simple, yet effective optical technique was demonstrated that can transform video inputs, such as the motion of a...

A mind blowing international project performed a mass genome sequence to build the entire avian tree and reveal how birds...

Transferring knowledge from one individual to the other forms the basis of all human cultures, whether we're talking about learning...

Arguably the most efficient predator in the world today is the dragonfly, which boats a 95% success rate. Obviously, there's...

For a long time, scientists have believed there's a sort of net trade-off between the number of seeds and the...

Really bad experiences, like going through a particularly stressful or frighting situation, are a lot easier to remember than the things...

Brain-computer interfaces have helped prosthetics go a long, long way. ZME Science showed you a couple of such examples, like...

Shells and bullets have evolved significantly in the past couple hundred years since they were first used, but in principle...

The more data doctors have of their patients' health, the better the treatments they can prescribe. Ideally, you'd want patients...