World’s most precise clock unveiled loses one “tick” in 10^18 “tocks”
While time can be viewed in very abstract terms, man has always been aware of it. Early man just needed...
Tibi is a science journalist and co-founder of ZME Science. He writes mainly about emerging tech, physics, climate, and space. In his spare time, Tibi likes to make weird music on his computer and groom felines. He has a B.Sc in mechanical engineering and an M.Sc in renewable energy systems.
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...
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...