Some 1,700 US cities under threat of going under-water by 2100
According to a recently published in the journal PNAS, some 1,700 cities in the United States coastal areas are under...
A scientist’s umbrella: the air umbrella shields wearer without any canopy
The first use of the umbrella, albeit in a more primitive form, can be traced back to ancient times. In...
Children can recover from an autism diagnosis, study finds
It's no easy task for any psychologist to bear the news to a parent that his child is suffering from...
Will a sheep’s wool grow ‘forever’? Apparently, yes.
This is quite possibly the woolliest sheep in history, Shrek the sheep. He was found in this condition in 2004,...
Preserving the remote wilderness in an ever crowded world
There are more people in the world than at any point in history, and the advent of technology has brought...
Scientists completely halt light for a record-breaking minute
Scientists at the University of Darmstadt, Germany have set a new record after they devised an experimental set-up that allowed...
New IRIS telescope images the sun with unprecedented detail [AMAZING PHOTOS]
These two images show a section of the sun as seen by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, on...
The lost U.S. patent files: The “X Patents”
The United States is a country renowned for its history of technological innovation and stewardship. Some of the world's greatest...
When the “prisoner’s dillema” is played with real prisoners: unexpected results
The prisoner's dilemma is one of the most famous paradigms and at the same time one of the most discussed...
Breathtaking photo captured by Cassini shows Earth as seen from Saturn
(c) NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE That faint blue dot at the center of this beautiful composition is none other than our...
Monsanto pulls GMO crops out of Europe, for now at least
(c) PETE RICHES/DEMOTIX/CORBIS Biotech giant, Monsanto, has been met with a wave of furious protests during the past year in...
3D map of brain 50 times more detailed than previous versions released
Researchers use a special tool called a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into tiny...
Why are females better at coping with stress? Study suggests estrogen is the key
Society today is becoming ever stressed out it seems. According to a recent American Psychological Association poll, nearly a quarter of...
A phone charger that’s powered by urine
Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos inside the Bioenergy laboratory at the BRL, holding a phone powered by a microbial fuel cell stack....
Gliding through the largest canyon in the solar system [VIDEO]
Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars, and in the solar system for...
Scientists create functional blood vessels from adult stem cells
This laser microscopy image shows iPSC-generated endovascular cells in green, connective tissue cells in blue, and red blood cells in...
New cosmology model claims Universe may not be expanding
The current accepted cosmological model of the formation of the Universe states that it is expanding ever since the Big...
Aboard the ISS: how to wash your hair in space
Every little thing we hold for granted here on familiar ground and gravity is different in space. Take washing your...
Forests become more efficient in response to rising CO2 levels
For years scientists have hypothesized that a rise in CO2 levels will cause the world's forests to use water more...
Fitting ATLAS, DARPA’s most advanced robot, with a brain
DARPA’s Atlas robot.. (Credit: DARPA) What's possibly the most advanced humanoid robot ever built was recently unveiled by Boston Dynamics...
After being decapitated, flatworms not only grow back their head but also regain memories
Research on nematodes have always been convenient for scientists. For one, they grow and breed really fast, making them ideal...
Bioadhesive coating might allow insulin oral administration instead of injections
(c) Bill David Brooks/Flickr The reason why some drugs can only be taken by injecting them, instead of less intrusive...
Direct measurement of Van der Waals force made for the first time
Scientists at the Laboratoire Charles Fabry (LCF) in Palaiseau and the University of Lille have for the very first time performed...
Cockatoos learn to pick locks, cognitive study shows
What if the world's greatest unsolved heists were made by aviary burglars? Bear with me for a second. A bird...
Why the US is the most expensive country for giving birth
It's rather ironic how in developed countries, despite an ever better quality of life, giving birth and raising a child...
Capturing music from the stars
Musica Universalis or Music of the Spheres is an philosophical concept which portrays the proportions in the movement of the...
Faroe Islands wants to sequence its entire population’s genome
Located in the North Atlantic, right in between Greenland and Scotland, Faroe Islands is one of the smallest countries in...
Popular sushi eel is the first fluorescent vertebrate discovered
When shone in blue, the freshwater Japanese eel glows in a beautiful green light. (c) AKIKO KUMAGAI & ATSUSHI MIYAWAK...
Brain-computer interfaces are as easy to learn and use as waving a hand
Mind-controlled devices, also known as brain-computer interfaces, have evolved a lot in the past few years alone, offering countless people...
Tunguska event was caused by meteor strike, rock sample analysis finds
You may have heard about the Tunguska event - a huge blast of energy which occurred in 1908 over Russia and flattened...
Asian tigers now at risk from virus normally affecting domestic dogs
A beautiful Sumatran tiger. (c) www.zoo.org.au As reported earlier on ZME, as little as three thousand tigers are currently alive...
‘Dwarf’ galaxy is most lightweight ever found
An extremely rare and small galaxy has just been reported by astronomers, which by all accounts can be considered the...
Huge mosquitoes 20x the size of normal ones invade central Florida
In the aftermath of heavy rains from Tropical Storms Debby and Andrea, a giant mosquito species has surfaced and invaded central...
A simple theory explains what dark matter might be made of
Most certainly, one of the top goals in physics today is proving the existence of dark matter - the elusive...
Laser-light sheets used to image life at its earliest stage [GREAT PICS]
Image of the ~50,000 cell nuclei of a 22-hour-old zebrafish embryo. The fluorescently labeled cell nuclei are shown in a...
Atom bombs help confirm the adult human brain does indeed produce new neurons
A long-time assumption in the medical world is that mature, differentiated neurons do not divide and that they're formed during the...
How humans might look like 100,000 years from now
A normal human male and female from present day. (c) Nickolay Lamm Our general appearance and dominating facial features have...
Australia is happiest country in the world, third time in a row
Non-stop sunshine, an incredibly beautiful ocean, one of the highest standards of living in the developed world and the Koala...
Strikingly similar ape and human infant gestures hint to evolution of language
Psychologists closely studying chimpanzee, bonobo and human infants found striking similarities among the three species in terms of different types...
A giant hole in the Sun [Marvelous PHOTO]
(c) NASA If you're a regular follower of NASA's updates, you may have caught glimpses of some of the X-ray...
Human-sized invisibility cloak makes use of magic trick to hide large objects
Invisibility cloaks have become the object of study for many research institutes out of a number of considerations. There's the...
Veteran granted new arm after being fitted with high-tech DARPA prosthetic
Artist's concept of Leaded Implantable Myoelectric Sensors (LIMES) to be used as a novel peripheral-interface technology with targeted muscle re-innervation...
Largest supercomputer bio-simulation ever reveals key HIV protective shell structure
Klaus Schulten, professor of physics; and Juan Perilla, postdoc with Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute with...
Avatar therapy shows great promise in silencing voices in schizophrenics
We've written a great deal about schizophrenia in the past, mostly reports about new theories pertaining to the development of...
Giant pink slugs discovered in Australian mountaintop [PHOTOS]
Researchers have for the first time described an unique snail species that can only be found high on top...
Plastic surgery of the future will rely on gene therapy
Reconstructive surgery (credit: U.S. Army/Nashaunda Tilghman/Wikimedia Commons) Reconstructive surgery has made huge strides forward in the past few decades alone,...
Sharks worth more money alive in the ocean than in a soup bowl, study finds
(c) Shawn Heinrichs Every living being is important, however in a transnational-based society everything has a price label on it,...
Big-Mouthed Toucans decline reshapes rain forest evolution
Channel-billed toucan eating a large jucara palm tree seed. The birds are indispensable for the proliferation of the large seed...
How the turtle got its shell: earliest ancestor sheds light
A living South African sideneck turtle next to its 260-million-year-old relative, Eunotosaurus africanus. Turtles are maybe the most majestic creatures...
World’s tiniest sculpted bunny is the size of a bacteria
This shows two microstructures made with the new material, containing the highest concentration of RDGE. Left: Pre-charring. These pyramid and...