A sample of the new material. Image credit: Surrey Nanosystems You might have thought black is too solemn or boring,...

Since the 1990s, biologists have witnessed a sudden demise of amphibian species. So far, hundreds of species have become extinct after...

Photo: YouTube Greenpeace premiered a video yesterday that campaign's against Shell's plans of drilling in the Arctic, but primarily targets...

If you've ever watched chimps during a nature program and became startled by your own empathy towards them, you're not...

Renewable energy is clean, getting cheaper by the day and in many respects becoming more efficient thanks to rapid advancements...

Tibetans acquired a unique gene by interbreeding with a now-extinct human species. Photo: easytourchina.com Advancements in genetic sequencing has allowed...

The Anopheles gambiae is the prime transmitter of malaria. A new genetic method manipulates mosquito populations so that only males are...

China is the most rapidly developing country in the world. Thanks to the pioneering work and arduous efforts by the People's...

Professor Terry Dawson of the University of New South Wales and colleagues found that kangaroos use their tail as an extra leg...

lustration of Duvalius abyssimus. / Sinc - José Antonio Peñas A new species of ground beetle perfectly adapted to extreme environments...

Photo: University of Illinois Rashid Bashir, the head of bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of...

Photo: The Guardian It's estimated that only a sixth of the original coral reef that covered the Caribbean waters is...

Photo: Tracking Point Guns today are looking more and more like they're from a video game or something. Take TrackingPoint's...

We've mentioned on numerous occasions the growing problem of space debris and voiced our concerns that, if left unchecked, the thousands of metal...

Photo: California Academy of Sciences A new mammalian species has been discovered among the ancient volcanic formation in Namibia that...

Restoration of the famous elephant bird. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Once one of Madagascar's crown inhabitants, the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus)...

The Stanford News Service recently made an interview with Jon Krosnick, a Stanford professor of communication and of political science who conducts...

The Foldscope is one of those innovative instruments that could potentially turn science communication and education en mass upside down....

Strong, stretchable fibers made of graphene oxide can be knotted like yarn (credit: Terrones group/Penn State) Chemical researchers at Penn...

Photo: greenbag.com Germany has reached a new renewable energy milestone recently after the country announced that on a given day...

Since its advent some 100 years ago, crystallography has become one of the most important processes in chemical research and...

A senate panel interviewed Dr. Mehmet Oz on Tuesday regarding his claims of various ‘miracle’ weight loss cures; as a...

When I was a kid, I asked, like many others, how do bees know how to make their way back...

Bloodhound SSC 1,000 mph land speed record car The current world land speed record stands at 763.035 mph, as set...

Artist impression of a spacecraft that might help mankind colonize other planets. Photo: Thinkstock If it weren't for man's innate...

An electron microscope shows the neck region of the Allegheny mound ant. Ohio State University Ants are one of the...

Photo: c4dcafe.com Roboticists and mechanical engineers hold octopuses to great respect and admiration because of their many skills, like great...

Photo: UCSD Inspired by the healing properties of the human liver, researchers at University of California, San Diego created a...

Photo: momfabfun.com When you think about Silly Putty toys, the last thing that comes to mind is high-tech. A group...

Photo: scribol.com For the casual nature enthusiasts, snails are a infinite source of joy whenever people come across them. People...

In a feat that surprised even the scientists who made the experiment, mice disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis...

Photo: Wikimedia Commons The humongous grey whale and the skipjack tuna, though of contradicting sizes, both employ similar propelling mechanisms...

Photo: AP I've expressed my fears that something like this might happen a few weeks ago when the first US...

Harpegnathos saltator ants undergo dramatic physiological changes triggered by heightened dopamine levels, following ascension of the colony's social ladder. It's...

One of the most common experience people choose to have when lucid dreaming is flying - can you blame them?...

The Moroccan flic-flac spider, Cebrennus rechenbergi. Image credit: Ingo Rechenberg. A most peculiar spider has been discovered by entomologists in...

Photo: Copenhagen University Danish researchers have developed a special helmet that shoots electro-magnetic waves in target brain regions and treats...

This Sunday a trio of landmark studies were published each discussing an aspect of a wider picture:  reversing aging in the muscles...

The Wyss Institute researchers molded a series of chess pieces made of their chitosan bioplastic, demonstrating a new way towards...

Professor Bekker and a student extract a core sample from a dead tree in Provo canyon. (C) BYU Modern climate...

The European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) attached to the Columbus module of the International Space Station during orbital flight. Image...

The Neurogrid circuit board can simulate orders of magnitude more neurons and synapses than other brain mimics on the power...

Usain Bolt of the animal kingdom - Paratarsotomus macropalpis. Photo: FASEB Journal Cheetahs are the world's fastest land animals in...

Hugh Herr, head of the Lab's Biomechatronics research group, spoke at TED 2014 on March 19 about his group's work...

An Amazonian isolated village, with natives in the background. Some of them can be seen with their bows readied to...

Illustration of HIV virus. Photo: FDA One of the most threatening modern pandemics, HIV/AIDS, has been thoroughly studied in the...

Photo: flickr If you've ever read the biographies of some of the world's greatest thinkers, you may have noticed that...

Photo: Wikicommons Can you put a cost on pollution? Policy makers, not matter how some may deny it, are more...

The animal kingdom is full of cons - shapeshifter who have learned that to survive, they need look different or...

Water is liquid, air is gaseous, but glass? For years at end, glass has perplexed scholars intending on fixing it...