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...

Using nothing but birth and death records, sociologists at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity  developed a working framework that details the migration patterns...

Since 2007, shale gas has boomed by 700% in the US and is projected to rise for the next 30...

Recent findings suggest that our general cognitive abilities are heavily influenced by key regions of the brain involved in social...

Photos: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Here at ZME Science we often report on cutting edge developments and various...

A new study that shifted through 81 e-cig related studies found that these are less harmful than conventional cigarettes. Policymakers,...

Here's a scientific explanation that will show you what happens when you get a tattoo and why the ink will...

Ruscosmos, the Russian space agency, recently launched geckos in space to see how zero gravity affects mating. The findings have...

A newly developed technique by researchers at University of Cambridge might revolutionize metamaterial manufacturing and help make a complete invisibility...

Liberian health workers wear protective gear on the way to bury a woman who died of the Ebola virus on...

Scientists have find a way to eradicate HIV-1 at its roots. Tests in the lab have been found to be...

Photo from inside CERN's particle accelerator. Photo: Martial Trezzini/epa/Corbis A group of Chinese physicists, working with international collaborators, have announced...

Three members of a recently contacted tribe walk with weapons in hand in Brazil. (c) FUNAI A few months ago,...

In the 1980s, concerned that the state statute on prostitution was too broad and could potentially infringe on First Amendment...

The Bistro smart cat feeder. If you've ever been to London, you might have noticed the city is packed with...

We've all read and heard about how exercise can dramatically boost our quality of living, but how many people actually...

NREL Senior Scientist Kai Zhu prepares a perovskite solar cell in his lab. Photo: NREL A crystal known to science...

Photo: dittomusic.com Rave parties go crazy when the bass drops, no doubt about it, but what makes people click so well with...

In 2006 , the BBC aired a fascinating documentary that featured that featured a family of five siblings from a...

“We women talk too much, nevertheless we only say half of what we know.”  Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess There's a...

Photo: health.com Whether studying late or partying until dawn, more and more people now turn to energy drinks to keep...

Some applications require such a degree of precision that everything needs to be in exact order at the atom-scale. In...

Designed by the world's foremost social robotics expert, MIT's Cynthia Breazeal, Jibo looks like a cross between HAL 9000 and Eve...

A new cancer fighting vaccine could come from an unlikely place. Photo: petfinder.com Right now, I'm the happy caregiver of...

Scientists have grown mutated worms that don't get drunk. mage courtesy of Jon Pierce-Shimomura of The University of Texas at...

Geobacter, one of the many electricity eating bacteria discovered so far. Image: Derek Lovley/SPL Most living beings on this planet...

The Simpsons Movie's plot starts off with Homer adopting a messy piglet he names "Spider Pig".  The pig, helped a...

Kyle Gass and Jack Black - the definition of friendship. Photo: eccentricbliss.com/ We often cherish our closest friends as if...

In 1965, Swedish photojournalist Lennart Nilsson published what was to become one of the most successful photographic book of all...

Photo: University of California, Riverside Expect the price of sand to skyrocket! Researchers at  University of California, Riverside have devised...

Photo: http://mmfit1.wordpress.com/ While marijuana use is becoming less of a tabu, in light of medical legalization in places like Colorado,...

Photo: headoverheels.org A few months ago I went hiking with some of my friends in an absolutely stunning mountain setting....

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...