Some atoms are more stable than others, and the same goes for their isotopes - elements that have the same...

Photo: Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images The  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued the first ever permit that will allow a coal...

Swiss scientists from the University of Bern demonstrated a new device that essentially generates electrical power from the mechanical energy...

Image: CARLES GRAU ET AL., PLOS ONE, 2014 A group of neuroscientists have achieved what some might believe strictly belongs...

The Laniakea Supercluster shown its equatorial plane. Image: CEA/Saclay, France Our sun is but a tiny speck of light among...

Photo: Peak Oil Researchers at University of Texas at Arlington conducted tests on more than 100 water wells in Texas and...

Globalization certainly has its ups: new markets, free trade, travel or economic growth (especially for developing nations). It's this latter...

Tea vs coffee. A new study suggests coffee increases risk of cardiovascular mortality, while tea reduces these risks. Image: life-cafe.co.za...

Feynman was at times called "The Great Explainer" because of his skill at making complex subjects accessible to students, and...

Image: DARPA DARPA just announced the launch of a new extremely exciting program: Atoms to Product (A2P). The aim is to...

NASA reports significant quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are still leaching into the atmosphere despite an international ban signed by all...

Researchers at Swansea University, UK and Uppsala University in Sweden built a mathematical model that explains how one single sheepdog...

Image: Flickr Creative Commons Either when someone's late for a date or you need to queue in line, our patience...

From the tropics to the poles, bird populations all over the world are facing a sharp decline, cornered by climate...

For billions of years, nature has been harnessing the energy from the sun through photosynthesis. This way, plants, algae and...

Doctors graft pig heart to baboon host. Photo: Robert F Hoyt/NHLBI-NIH While most of the hype is centered around biotech...

Pump jacks dot oil fields between the California towns of Taft and Maricopa. The very deep petroleum would be hard...

Photo: rantlifestyle.com Listening to loud music has been shown time and time again to affect hearing in a negative way....

A study by researchers at Harvard University found that children from a tender age have an advanced idea of fairness...

Ten years ago, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta probe tasked to orbit a comet for the very first...

One single lead-iron battery could be used to build enough solar panels to power 30 homes. Image: MIT Lead-acid car...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE)  re-activated the expression of an ancient gene in mice. To...

A parasitic plant called the dodder, which essentially acts like a 'vampire' upon its unsuspecting prey. A new research found...

Early modern human populations were culturally diverse and sometimes exchanged tools helped by river networks in a then savanna rich...

A first of its kind study conducted at the University of Colorado Denver looked at how city design affects populace...

In a breakthrough in robotics, researchers have programmed a swarm consisting of a whooping 1,024 members which can assemble in...

Scientists introduced Clostridium novyi, a bacteria that causes mild illnesses in humans that typically lurks inside the soil and feces, in...

LEDs made from perovskite (credit: Zhi-Kuang Tan) We've covered quite a bit the recent developments involving perovskite as an extremely...

Image: NASA At this very moment, the International Space Station has all its docking ports fully booked, as five manned...

A group of international researchers have demonstrated a novel technique for destroying cancer cells. By inserting a chloride payload that...

A brave Australian professor of molecular biology thinks he may have found out  why women get premenstrual syndrome (PMS). According...

The walking cane has helped the blind navigate obstacles for thousands of years, and its design has remained largely unchanged...

Sometimes, we go through situations thinking when we reach the end of the road the outcome will feel gloom. But...

Planetary Suite by Steve Guildea; Oil on Canvas, 9 Panels 6'x13'3"(Collection of Merrimack College) This magnificent painting by Steve Gildea...

Photo: wn.com As reported earlier, 2014 has seen the worst Ebola outbursts in history. Recent escalations of the outbreaks and...

Photo: Artie Raslich/Gotham Whale After cleaning the Hudson River, which spills into New York harbor, marine biologists report increased sightings...

A new study adds to a body of evidence that suggests the brain is involved in a unconscious process of...

Image: IBM The brain of complex organisms, such as humans but just as well other primates or even mice, is...

Many popular sports and energy drinks on the market are just as sugary as sodas, finds a new UC Berkeley...

A new study investigated the circumstances under which a 15-year-old kitesurfing male died after a tiger shark attacked him in...

This wasn't an easy tasks since the researchers identified hundreds of potential candidate compounds.

An exceptional Biologists duo who have studying an ecosystem from the Galapagos Islands for the past 40 years have made...

Researchers at University of Sheffield demonstrate a perovskite spray-on solar cell for the first time. Also, this is the first...

A zoo in Denmark wants to reverse the roles of captor and visitor. This is an artist's impression of how...

Walter Lewin. MIT Some people become in love with physics because they're secretly in love with the truth. Physics never...

While they hunt kangaroos, aborigines in remote areas of Australia help boost marsupial populations by lighting bush fires. Image: acanberraboy.blogspot.com...

Practice isn't all you need to become successful. Photo: muscleprodigy.com The old adage goes 'practice makes perfect', and while we...

Most University professors still rely on passive lectures to get their subject across. A meta-study which analyzed 225 studies found...

Allan Savory's holistic management solution seems too good to be true. Hint: it's not.

A group from the Multicellular Systems Biology lab at the Center for Genomic Regulation confirmed one of Turing's findings from...