Western society is becoming ever sedentary, as more and more jobs have transitioned to the office and technology offers people...

Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, are gaining ground fast against fossil fuels in terms of energy production, but...

Summer's just around the corner, for those of us living in the northern hemisphere at least, and while we've been...

In March, a medium sized meteorite slammed into the moon's surface causing the greatest explosion observed thus far, ever since...

Scientists closely working with the  Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, have identified evidence of...

Buried deep at some 2.4 kilometers beneath the surface, in the vicinity of an underground mine near Ontario, Canada, scientists have stumbled...

Dire news came today. Astronomers, and people dreaming of life beyond our solar system alike all over the world, are...

(c) NASA/ESA Hubble just never ceases to surprise. The latest astronomical find discovered using the ever resourceful space telescope is...

Serving as one of the strongest metaphors nature has to offer, at the later stages of its evolution the caterpillar...

The life expectancy gap between men and women is a rather attested fact, and while in the past a laborious,...

Meet Susan Barry. She's an accomplished neurobiologist and a professor of biological studies at Mount Holyoke College. For 48 years of...

Yesterday, residents in many parts of the US were treated to a wonderful sight as the sun became wrapped in...

A bit late with on this story, but considering the importance of this rather unfortunate milestone, it's best you all...

A great evolutionary leap forward in our lineage occurred once our hominid ancestors first began to hunt game to acquire...

A longstanding question in mathematics that has puzzled countless bright minds throughout the ages  is the  twin prime conjecture. The conjecture,...

Artist impression of Kepler-76b orbiting around its parent star. The planet was discovered after relativistic effects were observed. The star...

Researchers at the  Cambridge-based National Institute of Agricultural Botany have cross-bred an ancient species of wheat with a modern variant to...

Only 2% of the human genome is comprised of genes, while the vast majority of genetic material is known as...

With the world's population hitting the magic seven billion a mere few years ago, new solutions are required to feed...

Google is notorious for its ambitious projects, and its latest one falls nothing short. Capitalizing on its extremely powerful Google...

The nucleus of an atom is closely shaped like a sphere or rugby ball, signifying that mass is evenly distributed...

Annular eclipse over Utah last year in May. (c) Wally Pacholka This Thursday marks a special occasion for star gazers...

Hand-held device for extracting DNA. (c) UW/NanoFacture/KNR The human genome has been sequenced a mere few years ago, and since...

Some of you will definitely rejoice over this news piece. Apparently, scientists in Europe have developed a treatment that has...

Two fantastic space telescopes, Hubble and ESA's Herschel, have teamed up to image one of the most popular astronomical sights...

In an extraordinary feat of ingenuity,  a team of Swedish researchers have converted an all too common commercial DVD drive into...

The coelacanth is classed as a sarcopterygian, a term meaning fleshy fins. (c) Chip Clark/Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History,...

An artist's impression of a sunrise on Kepler 62f. (c) American Association for the Advancement of Science The ever resourceful...

Bone is a really awesome material, being hard and flexible at the same time. For something so ubiquitous and studied for so...

Researchers Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have demonstrated for the first time that...

The Large Hadron Collider may have shut down, but physicists are using some unusual techniques to test it, including a...

(c) British Antarctic Survey A new study that examined ice core samples found that parts of Antarctica's ice are melting...

Despite it makes up more than 85% of all matter in the Universe, dark matter, staying true to its name,...

Illustration of form of nobium oxide synthesized by UCLA researchers (UCLA/Nature Materials) Scientists at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of...

A kidney in a bioreactor after seeding with cells. After transplantation it filtered blood and produced urine. Photograph: Ott Lab/Center...

An artist's rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will become the world's biggest scope, at sunset. (TMT Observatory Corp.)l...

A topic of great interest in neurology and psychology is memory. While a lot of efforts have been made towards...

Bones from Lufengosaurus embryos (like this femur shown in cross-section) have yielded new information about dinosaur development. Paleontologists have discovered...

This artist's concept illustrates how charged water particles flow into the Saturnian atmosphere from the planet's rings, causing a reduction...

A concept image of a spacecraft powered by a fusion-driven rocket. In this image, the crew would be in the...

pollution-garbage-island In the 1980s a report described how a ginormous patch of plastic trash was guided by currents and concentrated right in...

A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances....

Billions of years ago, Mars had a much richer atmosphere than it has today, which is rather an understatement considering...

Artist's conception shows the International Space Station in the midst of an experiment in quantum entanglement.CREDIT: ESA One of the...

This might strike some of you as a surprise, but turbulence, a phenomenon we all encounter on a daily basis...

Possibly the most exciting technological innovation of the decade, in terms of the impact it's projected to have, 3-D printing...

What's the difference between a solid and liquid? You might find this question trivial - naturally, liquids flow and solids......

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come across the farthest supernova of its type found thus far - a type Ia...

Since it was first described sometime in the 1960s, the ionic thruster has remained confined to hobbyists basements, shadowed by the...

Driven by technological demand to breach the gigahertz (10^9 hertz) switching speed limit of today’s magnetic memory and logic devices, a team of...