A common concern among the general public, parents especially, is that once a draft calling for legalizing marijuana goes through,...

Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, aged 115. Photo: wikia.com No matter how much some would like to avoid this prospect, death is...

Photo: Winsun New Materials Say what you will, but the Chinese are clearly the fastest builders in the world, though...

A team led by Jonathan Coleman at Trinity College Dublin reports they've patented a technique that can easily produce large quantities...

The punching mantis shrimp is one of the meanest sea dweller. Photo: Carlos Puma As the night covers the tropics,...

Artist impression of how two such tower might look like in a desert community. Photo: Architecture and Vision The Namib...

Photo: PNAS It's long been supposed that monkeys are capable of mental arithmetics, but it was only recently that this...

Residue from a laboratory experiment simulating the conditions of interstellar space. The residue contained vitamin B3 (and related compounds) and...

The Chinese government sort of took everyone by surprise after it made a most unaccustomed  statement; it admitted the country...

Photo: prevention.com There's no secret prescriptions drugs have taken off in the past few decades, amounting to a multi-billion dollar...

Photo: NeuroImage A common brain myth is that creative people, like artists, use their right part of the brain more,...

Photo: telegraph.co.uk A team of development psychologists who have been following children's temperament since they were babies until early adulthood...

Hadza women roasting tubers.© Alyssa Crittenden You could be sitting alone and still be completely outnumbered for your body is...

A lemur rubbing on a sweetgum's trunk leaving a unique trace of scent. Credit: Ipek Kulahc Humans are great social...

The Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis), also called the guácharo, is more like a bat than a bird in some ways: It...

A postcard dated 17 May 1913 and the old beer bottle sit on top of a map in Kiel, Germany....

Photo: e-manonline.com Like a sticking nail, Alzheimer's has been irritating neuroscientists for decades. After so many years and billions worth...

While pollution is most felt locally, where its produced, some of it eventually winds up in remote locations proving to...

Flying a radio-controlled replica of the historic WWII P-51 Mustang red-tail aircraft—of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen—NRL researchers (l to r)...

Photo: waterbergrhino.com The new year came with a grim report, after South African authorities reported 1,004 rhinos were pouched in the...

Topographical map of a Martian region showing impact craters. Photo: Antoine Lucas/NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona The Red Planet is dear to many...

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Until just a few decades ago, there wasn't any proof that there were any planets beyond those...

Photo: drugdiscovery.com Researchers at the National Research Foundation of Korea report on Sunday that they have identified a new microRNA...

Photo: YouTube screenshot. For the nearly six million Americans living with paralysis, 1.3 million of which with spinal cord injuries,...

Photo: imgur.com Ever get that feeling that the place you're heading to is much closer than it should be? Take...

Once with the discovery and confirmation of the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva proved its money worth...

At the turn of the new year, we marveled how Swedish doctors transplanted no less than nine wombs in patients...

Curiosity rover captures a strange flare on the Martian surface. PHOTO JPL The photo right above was captured by the...

When you think of timber technology, the first things that come to mind may be constructing homes, wooden tools and,...

Photo: Ocean Networks Canada Without oxygen, your brain would shutdown within five minutes or so and you, as a person,...

Photo: guardian The popular myth of the fountain of youth tells the story of a magical spring that restores youth...

An image mosaic of sea ice in the Canadian Basin, taken by Operation IceBridge's Digital Mapping System on Mar. 28,...

Researchers in South Korea may have come across a novel and effective idea to tackle foods tainted with Salmonella bacteria. What looks like...

Farmers will have to more carefully manage nitrogen fertilization as the world climate warms up to prevent crop loss. Trying...

Photo: conservationafrica.net In some parts of the world you can find fences that stretch for hundreds of miles, delimiting protected...

In the future, your saliva might power key microelectronics. Researchers at Penn State have devised a micro-sized microbial fuel cells...

The red and green brain slice (left) illustrates activity levels for a single gene. The multicolor slice (right) is a...

Artist impression of planetary impact that led to the formation of the moon. photo: NASA A new massive computer model...

The International Space Station may be threatened by the recent worsen relations between the US and Russia. Photo: NASA A...

Strands of engineered muscle fiber, stained different colors to observe growth after implantation into a mouse. Duke University Heralded as...

While some governments may be more environmentally conscious and apply strict environmental policies, others are not. It's important, however, that...

Photo: rodalenews.com Most people nowadays buy antibacterial soaps instead of normal ones, because they believe it keeps them safe and...

The premiere animal model used in research facilities all over the world, the lab mouse, might replace humans at top...

A company in China claims it has access to free, unlimited energy that provides constant work. A team of Chinese...

Brain tissue from a mouse shows star-shaped astrocytes (green). Cells (blue) containing mutant protein (white) display lower levels of a...

The most basic fabric of civilization was woven on the principles of moral judgement, that is to say serving the...

Using only material geometry and interference patterns, MIT researchers have devised a novel way of passing light of any colour...

Many herald 3-D printing as a new wave set to revolutionize manufacturing in the 21 century. I fully agree in...

Suspended animation in the Alien movie. For the half-dead arriving at hospitals, like the unfortunate who suffer gunshot wounds or...

Cardiff University  researchers report on Monday that  children with two copies of a common gene (Thr92Ala), together with low levels of...