Photo: Guardian Using modern forensic techniques, bioarchaeologists have found that a slew of skulls, discovered a few decades ago in...

Photo: yahoo.com A new study that looked to compare how working memory differs in young and old people, found that...

The first moments following a nuclear attack are crucial. If you're right in line of the blast, well ... you're...

Photo: dogsense.co.uk It's always depressing when we hear stories of dogs attacking people, more so when injuries lead to death....

The K supercomputer in Japan. The human brain is arguably the most complex structure in the Universe. To unlock its...

A prototype of the flow battery developed at Harvard. (c) Eliza Grinnell, SEAS Communications One of the biggest arguments against...

For school teachers working in some of San Francisco's toughest schools, giving everyday to work isn't some new opportunity to...

Who would have thought snooping into people's private lives pisses them off? A new study by North Carolina State University researchers...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently completed one of its most thorough and ambitious mozaic projectes. Astronomers at Hubble, stitched together...

Photo: telegraph.co.uk What evolutionary traits helped humans become the dominant species on Earth? Our dexterous limbs and complex nervous system...

Artist impression of BOSS map, complete with a view of the intergalactic 'ruler'. (c) BOSS A new map of a...

Schematic for two different types of PC/SWNT photoactuators made by tuning the built-in strain of the bilayers. (c) Nature Communications...

While happiness and meaningfulness often overlap, the two are distinct states of being. A Stanford project looked into the lives...

NGC 609 is one of the many small galactic star clusters located in the Milky Way in Cassiopia. It shines...

In the movie "Back to the Future", Marty McFly almost ends up erasing himself from existence after nearly having prevented...

One of the most beautiful cities in Europe, Hamburg has embarked on an ambitious plan that aims to promote cycling...

This week a big part of North America was paralyzed after powerful winds and freezing gusts swept the continent in...

A study from Yale University found that some eight million premature deaths have been adverted as a result of anti-smoking...

The bright star Beta Pictoris is hidden behind a mask in the center of the images; a few scattered starlight...

M.P., a kindergarten teacher and expert reader, was hit by a stroke and, in the aftermath, her brain underwent some...

Artist impression of KOI-314c. Credit: C. Pulliam & D. Aguilar (CfA) A team of astronomers recently discovered a new exoplanet...

Photo: Vincent Yu/Associated Press As China's populace grew in affluence and trade restrictions with other countries became more permissive, the...

Photo: freefoto.com Sure to raise a slew of controversy and debate, researchers in Japan are currently investigating the possibility of...

Photo: west-info.eu The world is changing awfully fast, and with change expect many paradigms to shift or crumble entirely to...

Every dog owner can attest that canines are remarkable navigators, like some sort of living, breathing compasses. For some time,...

Some people just have the knack of remembering the face of everyone they've met in their lives, while others, on...

A huge megaflood may have carved the U-shaped canyons we can now see in Idaho some 46,000 years ago. The...

There has been a debate over the number of spiral arms the Milky Way galaxies has, due to mixed results...

In the past two decades alone, some 900 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have been identified, with...

In nature, organisms communicate in various ways, be it through acoustic or biological signals. Insects, for instance, communicate and relay...

(c) NASA As the sun approaches the end of its 11-year-long cycle, scientists expect during one flash to change its...

Arguably,  NGC 7293 is maybe the most stunning deep space photograph astronomers have captured thus far. The nebula, located approximately 700 light-years...

Graphene, a 2-D array of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagon shape, is one of the most researched material today....

Photo credit: psychologies.co.uk - Just like taste, it's really common for people not to agree on how pleasant or fowl...

Chemists at University of Toronto report a new greenhouse gas has been added to the roster - perfluorotributylamine, or PFTBA. Like...

A handheld bio pen developed in the labs of the University of Wollongong will allow surgeons to design customised implants...

Photo: spartandaily.com Every business out-there, be it a corporate giant or a small shop, has it in its mind that...

Fuel cells are absolute wonders of technology - electrochemical systems that directly convert the chemical energy of a fuel (hydrogen...

Airport map. (c) Dirk Brockmann The world is getting smaller by the day, as fixed geographical distances become easier and...

Prosthetics have come a long way in recent years alone, mainly due to advancements in brain-machine interfaces. Incredibly articulated artificial limbs can...

Researchers at MIT found that individual cells in a bacterial colony will grow in a manner that is beneficial to...

Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Playing an instrument comes with a wide range of benefits, especially for children. It teaches them...

A computer model of the Contour Crafting Robotic Construction System. Basically, huge 3-D printers and tools would automatically build civil...

Drawing illustrates a rat with a BMBI attached to the skull retrieving food. Photo courtesy: Case Western Reserve University Case...

They're small and cute, and while indeed these creatures are completely harmless, make no mistake - these are some tough...

Study suggests that children in homes with stressed parents are more likely to gain weight. Photo courtesy of The Guardian...

This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary...

An established astrophysicist, but more known thanks to his popular science programs, Neil deGrasse Tyson is a sensation on the...

(c) Arturo Gonzalez In a fantastic discovery, a team of archaeologists have dated a pair of footprints preserved in the mineral-rich...

Photo: Rum Bucolic Ape/Flickr Fractals are non-regular geometric shapes that have the same degree of non-regularity on all scales. Fractals are...