It might not come as a surprise to hear that the world's strongest material, graphene, was found to be a...

Genetic diversity is essential to our survival, but its exactly the huge variance in genetic information that makes all so...

An experiment fortuitously called DARE (DNA atmospheric re-entry experiment) has come to a most unexpected conclusion: DNA can indeed survive full...

Since ancient times, people living in hot climates learned if they paint their rooftops white, then their quarters would stay...

US researchers demonstrated an implantable device that can deliver a drug payload when triggered by a remote wireless signal. After the...

There's no more faithful companion than a dog, nor more messier. If you thought dog's make a mess when they...

For a long while astronauts coming back home from the ISS would complain how bad the coffee is in Earth's...

Apart from both being shiny, it's hard to see any connection between a Blu-ray disk and a solar panel. Northwestern...

UK researchers highlight once more a depressing topic: income inequality and lack of social mobility. After they tracked families that...

Who would've thought only a decade ago that quantum computers would become real in the upcoming future? Those of us...

The R&D and pre-marketing approval cost of a typical pharmaceutical drug sits at around $2.6 billion, according to a new study...

Inspired by Margaret Thatcher's formidable political skills, researchers in the US sought to understand how a position of power changes...

In 2012, the United States generated almost 14 million tons of plastics as containers and packaging, about 11 million tons...

NASA released a video that helps us visualize where the major CO2 emission hotspots are and how the greenhouse gas travels and...

In response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration launched a counter-offensive which went on to be known as...

We're used to hearing how elephants are driven off by habitat lost, but never the other way around. Researchers at University of...

A massive independent genetic survey sought to replicate the findings of a 20 year old controversial study which identified a stretch...

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? This nonsensical question actually has meaning in the world...

After studying ancient minerals in a meteorite, MIT scientists have gained valuable insights that help explain how the sun, the...

President Obama and Chinese leader  Xi Jinping agreed to sign a deal that will see the US nearly double its...

It's no surprise for anyone to find that soldiers fighting together on the front-line are tied together by a special...

A famous science communicator and TV personality, Bill Nye has served the world a huge favor with his programs, books...

Owing to its mass deployment of coal burning plants and the  7.4 million cars that fill its roads, Delhi now...

Over ninety percent of all the world's ice is in Antarctica, where it can run 4000-5000 meters deep. Yet, as...

Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, is looking to launch a massive fleet of micro-satellites...

In all likelihood, we won't be seeing a manned mission for Mars before 2030, but until this happens forefront research...

"Eat, Cook, Grow" makes us think about how digital technologies are changing our interaction with food.

An international team of more than 100 scientists has undertaken a most complex and challenging task: they've determined the timings and...

Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have devised a particle accelerator that can increase the kinetic energy of particles passing...

Some 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, a new planet is being born and astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...

A breakthrough study authored by Harvard University developmental biologists has finally resolved the mystery of how sexual organs appeared for the...

Ever more municipalities and universities have joined the call to divest fossil fuel, thus reinforcing the message that these institutions...

In 2003, Dr. Lihong V. Wang at Washington University introduced one of the most exciting technologies we've had the chance to...

Some of us like to think that the energy needs of the future will be supplied by clean and renewable...

Austrian researchers at the Vienna Univ. of Technology (TU Wien) made just two photons interact with each other, a major feat...

Seems like your mom was right all along: scratching does, in fact, makes the itching worse. This was the conclusion reached...

On Tuesday, Google's head of life sciences inside the company’s Google X research lab reported a new exciting project that involves...

Right now, flowing rivers of bubbling lava are crossing the Hawaiian countryside well through residential areas, where it devastated roads, a...

A group from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France, and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has made a...

Developing countries are catching up fast and there's a lot the rich can learn, especially in terms of energy. A...

An American national study that looked at hospital emergency department visits for opioid overdoses found that 67.8% of the cases involved...

An UK design firm is proposing a most daring idea: replace the windows in a plane with super-light smartscreen panel...

The most complex computer simulation of its kind to date suggests that melting Arctic ice is significantly contributing to extreme...

Here's something you don't see everyday - for the first time, astronomers witnessed how a nova is formed right from...

Topping conventional thinking, a new study found that making mistakes while learning can benefit memory, but only when the wrong...

A notebook that laid under the cover of Antarctic ice for the past 100 years was discovered by Newzealand’s Antarctic...

Friday morning, EU leaders finally reached an agreement for its 2030 energy target - member states have all agreed to...

Climate Matters is a fabulous and short read that tries to tackle an extremely complex subject, bringing focus and much...

Image: Wikipedia Ever heard of "tears of wine" or the phrase "the wine caught legs"? It's common when you pour...

European Union leaders are currently meeting in Brussels to discuss the terms under which the Union will set its 2030 energy...