Since the study of modern chemistry was initiated, only 36 basic types of chemical reactions have been fully described. Recently,...

It's amazing how two different animals from two completely different environments evolve some identical physical features. Take bats and dolphins...

In one of Stanley Kubrick's weirdest movies (even by Kubrick standards), "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...

(c) LEGO There's a huge gender gap between men and women in science that can be tied to early segregation...

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), recently initiated a bold and creative project in which they enlisted six member...

In 2010, 4,280 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, and another 70,000 pedestrians were injured. Various...

Today, cancer is typically treated through highly invasive, painful and low efficiency treatments. Doctors resect the tumors, do radiation therapy,...

Dark energy is the mysterious force that drives the Universe's expansion at an ever increased pace. Probing and understanding this...

Every time we're engaged in a certain action, the sounds we produce while walking, eating, even playing music are tuned...

  While browsing reddit the other day, I came across a most peculiar finding. One of the users, Decapod73 or Tony Alexander in...

=Poverty posses long-lasting social, emotional and, least not forget, cognitive perils. A recent study found that people under financial strain...

It's a lazy dog owner's dream come true. What if you had a remote control that you could use to...

One of the smallest amphibians in the world, the  Gardiner's Seychelles frog, is also one of the most eccentric. The frog...

The high temperatures of the meteorite impact 12,900 years ago produced mm-sized spherules of melted glass with the mullite and...

Say hello to drop-proof smartphones and whole new generation of plastic products that will be far more durable and strong...

A new study that surveyed through records of hundreds of thousands of men from 15 European countries found that the...

In a breakthrough moment, researchers at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  have developed a novel material resembling a simple...

A common and favored method of execution in ages long past, decapitation is one of the cruelest and frightening human...

Most medical research looking to identify the mechanisms of a disease or test treatments rely on animal models. While very...

Scientists have discovered an atypical gene that is thought to be crucial for the generation of new neurons in the...

In a mind-boggling and, frankly, a bit frightening breakthrough, researchers at University of Washington have devised a brain-to-brain interface that for...

Theoretical Physicists John Preskill and Spiros Michalakis  sat down for a short talk in which they describe how quantum computing...

Crows, like most other species from the corvid family (ravens, rooks, etc.), are some of the most intelligent animals on the...

For nearly two years now, Syria has been embroiled in a gruesome civil war that has so far claimed thousands...

Farmers, with the help of researchers in the field, have been desperately trying to develop new insecticides that can ward...

It's clear that humans are now, more than ever, a driving force in evolutionary biology. Early domestication efforts through breeding...

Our farthest scout in the Universe, the Voyager-1 probe, has traveled some 18.7 billion kilometers so far and it doesn't...

Graphene is a perfect 2D crystal of covalently bonded carbon atoms and forms the basis of all graphitic structures. (c)...

When the space shuttle was first designed, its makers intended on building the very first partially reusable craft capable of...

Researchers  at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) Department of Neuroscience analyzed a massive survey of 130,000 randomly chosen...

An aerial view of the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador's northeastern jungle. Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP Yasuni National Park to be...

Our bodies are hosts to some hundreds of thousands of bacteria that live in harmony with each other, helping the...

(c) BBC America's longest war (or second-longest for sure) in history is expected to end in 2014 once with the...

(C) Noyle Indonesia's Java is one of the world's top surfing destinations, as well as a marvelous casual vacation spot, famed...

At the heart of virtually every large galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole with a mass of a million to...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is an established neurosurgeon, but you all might know him better as CNN's chief medical correspondent through the...

After years of planning and hard work, the Gemini Observatory team recently unveiled some of the work they performed using...

For many quantum mechanics is very hard to comprehend because so many of its insights are extremely bizarre (see spooky...

A prototype of the leaf-inspired solar cell. Right corner: 1cm scale bar. As solar cells, and obviously the solar energy...

The Argus II is the first bionic eye implant, designed to grant the blind vision, that has been approved by...

A few years ago ZME Science reported how a group of researchers at University of Maastricht in Holland were on a mission...

Temperature is an important physical parameter which greatly influences a system. Monitoring and/or manipulating this state parameter with great accuracy...

The ramifications of climate change are long and vast, but with all this talk and attention the subject's been gaining...

Your first impression after seeing one or more of the photos featured in this piece might be that these are...

The waves of controversy and outrage following former CIA and NSA technical officer Edward Snowden's leaks of details that reveal the...

We've all come to love and cherish the visionary images of astronauts out in space in their spacesuits. There's something...

This isn't a cyborg gold fish from a borg's aquarium, this little amazing fellow is called Einstein. He unfortunately ended...

A new study performed by scientists in China has further elevated stem cell research after they successfully grew teeth-like structures...

This image, captured off the coast of Australia, shows a brave/stupid marine biologist who managed to touch a great white...

Weighing in at 33 pounds (15kgs), this huge honey mushroom was recently discovered by locals in China's Yunnan Province. Specialists...