Just like our own planet, the sun goes through seasonal changes in its activity, waxing and waning over the course...

The same genes that are responsible for height have been linked to heart disease as well, according to British researchers...

Renewable energy and electric vehicles not only need high density storage mediums to become successful, but ones that can be...

You've heard all about controlling robotic arms or prosthesis with thoughts, but what about genes? In a deceptively simple experiment,...

There aren't blood vessels you're seeing, but itsy bitsy strands of artificial spider silk. For some years, researchers have been...

By the time you've finished reading this sentence, thousands of lightning bolts had already discharged enormous amounts of energy onto...

Blind rats learned to navigate mazes just as well as those that could see, after scientists strapped a simple geomagnetic...

If you ever dropped food on the pavement, don't feel too bad. It'll get scrapped bit by bit by the...

Settling a long debate, Princeton University researchers found that a class of materials called frustrated magnets - called so because...

Higher education is facing a crisis, and professor Bowen offers some solutions.

Sprawling Mexico City rolls across the landscape, displacing every scrap of natural habitat . Photograph: Pablo Lopez Luz Some might...

Homes cleaned at least once a week with bleach might provide an environment that puts children at a higher risk...

Exploiting plants' natural response to stress caused by drought, researchers have engineered crops that build tolerance and can withstand longer...

A new test analyzes the free DNA inside the blood of pregnant women to detect Down Syndrome in fetuses with...

Most of the 100 children hospitalized with acute flaccid myelitis haven't recovered from paralysis and weak limbs. CC BY-NC 2.0

After carefully calculating the net nutritional gain polar bears have from land-based food like caribou, berries or bird eggs, researchers...

More than half a century in question, scientists now confirm that the tiny blackpoll warbler flies nonstop over the North...

There's a fine line between being seen as a non-conformist (higher status) and sloppy dresser (lower status). But what sets...

I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding the biblical sacrifice, but also the psychoanalytical reasoning behind sacrifice. Quite...

The flying lemur is the most accomplished mammalian glider.

In a most unexpected find, the same University of Manchester team that isolated graphene for the first time in 2003...

Stem cells were coaxed to grow into 3D dimensional mini lungs, or organoids, for the first time. These survived for...

Some 30 new bean varieties have been cross-bred by researchers in order to make these more resistant to rising temperatures....

When you gotta eat... well you gotta eat, even in space. On March 23, 1965 astronaut John Young launched to...

Boeing, a major aircraft and military manufacturer, just secured a patent that describes a Star Trek-like force shield, meant to...

The Stork’s Bill (Erodium circutarium) is a incredible plant which evolved its own seed drilling mechanism. The  vitamin K rich seeds have little...

A longitudinal study that spanned 26 years found that kids exposed to their Finish parents cigarette smoke are at risk...

For its annual report, the The Alzheimer’s Association in the US claims that more than half of all reported early...

Even if it was first discovered more than 90 years ago, insulin is still out of reach for a shocking...

Cloning the woolly mammoth is a life long dream for many geneticists and biologists, but the challenges are numerous. Now,...

At a recent meeting of the of the American Chemical Society, researchers proposed a novel source of valuable metals: waste...

Biologists at Tufts Universityand University of Minnesota showed for the first time that bioelectricity signaling between cells guides embryonic brain...

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...