Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars, and in the solar system for...

This laser microscopy image shows iPSC-generated endovascular cells in green, connective tissue cells in blue, and red blood cells in...

The current accepted cosmological model of the formation of the Universe states that it is expanding ever since the Big...

Every little thing we hold for granted here on familiar ground and gravity is different in space. Take washing your...

For years scientists have hypothesized that a rise in CO2 levels will cause the world's forests to use water more...

DARPA’s Atlas robot.. (Credit: DARPA) What's possibly the most advanced humanoid robot ever built was recently unveiled by Boston Dynamics...

Research on nematodes have always been convenient for scientists. For one, they grow and breed really fast, making them ideal...

(c) Bill David Brooks/Flickr The reason why some drugs can only be taken by injecting them, instead of less intrusive...

Scientists at the Laboratoire Charles Fabry (LCF) in Palaiseau and the University of Lille have for the very first time performed...

What if the world's greatest unsolved heists were made by aviary burglars? Bear with me for a second. A bird...

It's rather ironic how in developed countries, despite an ever better quality of life, giving birth and raising a child...

Musica Universalis or Music of the Spheres is an philosophical concept which portrays the proportions in the movement of the...

Located in the North Atlantic, right in between Greenland and Scotland, Faroe Islands is one of the smallest countries in...

When shone in blue, the freshwater Japanese eel glows in a beautiful green light. (c) AKIKO KUMAGAI & ATSUSHI MIYAWAK...

Mind-controlled devices, also known as brain-computer interfaces, have evolved a lot in the past few years alone, offering countless people...

You may have heard about the Tunguska event - a huge blast of energy which occurred in 1908 over Russia and flattened...

A beautiful Sumatran tiger. (c) www.zoo.org.au As reported earlier on ZME, as little as three thousand tigers are currently alive...

An extremely rare and small galaxy has just been reported by astronomers, which by all accounts can be considered the...

In the aftermath of heavy rains from  Tropical Storms Debby and Andrea, a giant mosquito species has surfaced and invaded central...

Most certainly, one of the top goals in physics today is proving the existence of dark matter - the elusive...

Image of the ~50,000 cell nuclei of a 22-hour-old zebrafish embryo. The fluorescently labeled cell nuclei are shown in a...

A long-time assumption in the medical world is that mature, differentiated neurons do not divide and that they're formed during the...

A normal human male and female from present day. (c) Nickolay Lamm Our general appearance and dominating facial features have...

Non-stop sunshine, an incredibly beautiful ocean, one of the highest standards of living in the developed world and the Koala...

Psychologists closely studying chimpanzee, bonobo and human infants found striking similarities among the three species in terms of different types...

(c) NASA If you're a regular follower of NASA's updates, you may have caught glimpses of some of the X-ray...

Invisibility cloaks have become the object of study for many research institutes out of a number of considerations. There's the...

Artist's concept of Leaded Implantable Myoelectric Sensors (LIMES) to be used as a novel peripheral-interface technology with targeted muscle re-innervation...

Klaus Schulten, professor of physics; and Juan Perilla, postdoc with Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute with...

We've written a great deal about schizophrenia in the past, mostly reports about new theories pertaining to the development of...

  Researchers have for the first time described an unique snail species that can only be found high on top...

Reconstructive surgery (credit: U.S. Army/Nashaunda Tilghman/Wikimedia Commons) Reconstructive surgery has made huge strides forward in the past few decades alone,...

(c) Shawn Heinrichs Every living being is important, however in a transnational-based society everything has a price label on it,...

Channel-billed toucan eating a large jucara palm tree seed. The birds are indispensable for the proliferation of the large seed...

A living South African sideneck turtle next to its 260-million-year-old relative, Eunotosaurus africanus. Turtles are maybe the most majestic creatures...

This shows two microstructures made with the new material, containing the highest concentration of RDGE. Left: Pre-charring. These pyramid and...

Parents with autistic children typically have no way of knowing whether their children's early, yet mild signs of autism will...

Did you know you may have chimp-like feet?

While time can be viewed in very abstract terms, man has always been aware of it. Early man just needed...

While browsing reddit, I came across something well worth sharing: shrunken coins. Now, bear with me and you'll soon learn...

(c) Semyon Grigoriev In nothing short of an astonishing find, Russian scientists have discovered a wonderfully preserved female mammoth carcass...

There are all kinds of robots nowadays that are here to assist humans with their daily chores, both at work...

A group of international researchers may have reached a breakthrough moment after they successfully eliminated schizophrenia symptoms in mice after...

Sure, this transmutation might not be as spectacular as that of lead into gold, but it most certainly would have...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a marvelous collection of pre-Hispanic paintings in 11 sites different sites in the caves and...

The Watson supercomputer. Photo credit: Ben Hider/Getty Images. In a society where overqualified, but desperate for work individuals are forced...

Walking a four legs definitely has its perks. You can run faster, you have more stability because of the lower...

Microprocessor with DNA (illustration). Scientists have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic...

Not too long ago, the Ring nebula was thought to be shaped like a sphere. New Hubble observations, coupled with...

This little fellow on the left might look like he's about to take off for a flight, but he knows...