Spring officially began in the northern hemisphere Friday on 22:45 GMT, around 30 seconds later than last year. As it...

The 2008 financial crisis explained by the Federal Reserve chairman.

While in South American during his 1830 expedition with the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin came across the fossils of two...

Barton Bibler, a long time employee of Florida's environmental protection department, was forced by his boss to take a leave...

Long before T-rex claimed the top dog spot among terrestrial predators, a vicious crocodile ancestor that walked on its hind...

The tropical forests of Northeaster Brazil have their own nightlight: a peculiar mushroom called Neonothopanus gardneri that glows in the...

Ijad Madisch a Harvard trained virologist and computer scientist was on his way to becoming a medical professor, but in...

Scientists, in the lab at least, see marijuana differently from growers or users. Like other plants, once you dive into...

Each year worldwide about one million people decide to take their own lives. Overriding your conservation instincts isn't easy, let's...

Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, is no stranger to staggering photos. His most famous shot includes the...

The conservative Canadian government headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper has consistently moved the country away from sustainable practices and...

A pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) emitted by the sun last Sunday have now triggered a severe geomagnetic storm...

How the quantum moment "overturned basic beliefs about space and time, causality and reality, and exposed as mistaken many fundamental...

Half cockroach, half machine, these peculiar insects were hijacked by researchers at Texas A&M University for science. Electrodes implanted in...

University of Michigan researchers have devised what looks like the world's first fully transparent solar cell. Think of all of...

While he was only 22 years of age, Charles Darwin sailed on the ship H.M.S. Beagle to the Galapagos Island...

At his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Martin Burke laid the foundation for what he simply...

Saul Luciano Lliuya is a farmer from Peru whose home in the floodpath of the Palcacocha lake which has been...

Historically, CO2 emissions linearly follow the world's economy, either dropping during recession or raising with growth. Today, we're expelling more...

Four years ago, a vocal anti vaccine activist and a biologist by training challenged not only established medical science, but...

The most effective weapon against the dreadful Alzheimer's might not be a drug, but a breakthrough therapy based on ultrasounds...

Friends use metaphors more often when speaking to one another, and this helps them gauge each other's emotional state according...

Florida worker ants doubled in size after scientists performed chemical changes to their DNA. The ants were not genetically modified...

Between 1992 and 2007, the number of products sold by farmers directly to consumers increased three fold and twice as...

A team at Caltech has devised a new film coating that facilitates catalysis and electron transfer in a solar powered...

A link between heightened intelligence and autism has been suspected by scientists based on empirical evidence, and now genetic screening...

It's not just Chinese air that's dirty and polluted, it's the coastline too.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia's top medical research body, found that homeopathy does improve or alleviate...

Belgian scientists have revealed a refined explanation for the chemical process that's currently degrading Vincent van Gogh's famous paintings, which...

The chameleon is one of the most remarkable, but also iconic creatures in the animal kingdom. It's color shifting traits...

People generally love their pets, but we'd be lying to say there isn't an inter-species discrimination. How many fish owners...

People who excessively rely on their smartphones scored lower on tests which gauged cognitive abilities like analytical thinking than those...

Two new studies, independently published in the same journal, found that consciousness expanding substances like LSD or psilocybin (the psychoactive...

Astronomers have discovered a star racing at a incredible pace of 2.6 million miles an hour (4.2 million kilometers an...

Tomorrow, Swiss aviators Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will embark on an epic journey aboard Solar Impulse 2 - an...

In Florida, some have already found a solution to climate change: just ignore the damn thing! According to a outrageous...

Extraordinaire experimental physicist  Galileo Galilei allegedly climbed hundreds of step to reach the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa's...

By 2050, world population is expected to rise to nine billion, but the amount of arable land meant to grow...

Image:Credit: AP/John Davisson Most recently, Bill Nye is famous for his viral debate against against Ken Han on creationism. The debate...

The pace and scale of China's economic transformation have no historical precedent. In 1979, China initiated a series of reforms...

We live in a society which puts a lot of pressure on looks. Women especially, are always looking for new...

Some people waste hours each day driving their car, time they could have otherwise spent better. You'll still be trapped...

It amazes me when I hear people say they're against wind turbines because ... wait for it... they're ugly. If...

Parasitic hookworms infect half a billion people worldwide, causing severe health problems like gastrointestinal issues, cognitive impairment and stunted growth...

It's increasingly hard to eat less sugar, as market shelves are filled with sugary products. In the past ten years...

Science journal today seem to be dominated by positive results - that is those that are statistically significant and lead...

A crowd gathered for the New America Foundation’s first annual Future of War conference was told by DARPA's director that...

Airports, some of the busiest places, are now becoming unlikely hosts for bees. Not content with mechanical winged contraptions, airports...

India is among the most polluted country in the world, a direct consequence of its growth-orientated policy. Despite economic growth,...

Big cities are crammed with millions of pigeons, but despite their large numbers the birds seem to have no problem...