An underwater volcano that's been spewing ash and lava for the past month just created a new island off the...

The ever resourceful Kepler missions just reported its most interesting find to date: not one, but five planets smaller than...

The land of the rising sun can be extremely confusing to foreigners, but one thing's for sure: you gotta hand...

Global warming is all fun and games until somebody breaks a penis! For a long time, scientists have been aware...

Researchers in the UK have found that male children from poor homes growing up in better-off areas are more likely...

Researchers at the Université de Strasbourg made a polymer gel that is able to contract similar to how a muscle...

After analyzing key hand bone fragments from fossil records, a team of anthropologists conclude that pre-homo human ancestral species, such...

American and Australian researchers have figured out how to unboil an egg, devising a method that unfolds tangled proteins. The...

Harbor seals and most likely all pinnipeds rely on their whiskers to track prey even in the murkiest waters. Now,...

California's large trees or those larger than two feet in diameter have declined in numbers to half that recorded in...

In space, of course, you can't have any fires because there isn't any oxidizer (i.e. oxygen) to sustain the combustion...

Nothing can travel faster than light in vacuum, per Einstein, but in the real world light travels at variable speed...

Using satellite imagery, scientists have discovered two new subglacial lakes under Greenland's ice sheet bringing the total number to four....

After analyzing almost every marijuana related tweet sent during a one-month period in early 2014, researchers have discovered there are...

Researchers in Germany report the discovery a previously unknown bacterial communication pathway, one that might be a potential target for...

A lot of Americans seem to be confused about what are antibiotics and what they're good for. According to a...

We've all hit our elbow a rough couple of times before, so you must remember what follows: a gripping tingling...

Every food product is mandated in most of the world to list its nutritional values - how much proteins, lipids,...

More than 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths among children born in the last 20 years have been spared by...

In a first for the UK, doctors have transplanted the kidneys and liver cells of a newborn baby girl to...

A new generation of water-repellent products could be just ahead after researchers at University of Rochester demonstrated an amazing laser technique...

Chimps, our favorite primate cousins, communicate with each other through a complex gesture language, partially decoded by scientists. Depending on...

Pope Francis, well on his way on becoming the most popular and moderate pope in recent history, is preparing to...

Nutritionists have identified pizza as a major contributor to obesity among young children and adolescents, and caution parents to be...

A pipeline breach spewed more than 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone river, according to Montana officials who claim...

Human social behavior is strikingly governed by laws that describe how the masses congregate or interact one another. Yet, despite...

Nibiru followers might have cause to rejoice, as Spanish astronomers report a novel hypothesis that suggests two Earth-sized planets might...

No, it's not Asimov's Three Laws but the Common Law that a robot designed for art infringed. Devised by !MEDIENGRUPPE...

Rising sea levels, droughts, extreme weather, wildfires - these are just a few of the consequences of global warming. The...

Princeton researchers demonstrated a novel type of microwave laser - called a maser - so small that's the size of...

The most important message mommies are missing is that pregnant women and their babies need vaccines to stay healthy, according...

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...