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...

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...