Computer scientists at University of Illinois at Chicago have created what can only be described as a real-life Star Trek...

An infrared image of the Lobster nebula, filled with glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young...

As climate change and global warming become ever pressing issues on the desks of the world's governments, so do the...

A new study by scientists at University of British Columbia and Université Paris Descartes found that babies growing up in...

Now, I'm not advocating alcohol consumption, but truth be told most of us take alcohol for granted, and I'm not...

Credit: John-Stuart Brittain et al./Current Biology For most Parkinson's patients, tremors associated with this devastating disease make living a normal...

A team of international researchers from US and China have employed a novel method to link enzymes together and then encapsulate...

Recently, the highly controversial "golden rice" - a genetically modified rice that also contains vitamin A - has been approved...

The weekend that has just passed was a tight one for asteroid news. At the center was of course the...

In what can only be considered a remarkable medical breakthrough, researchers at  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have completely cured type 1...

A telescope in Chile recently imaged one of the brightest spots at the core of the Milky Way, beautifully illustrating...

Most brain-machine prosthetic research today is focused on supplementing a missing sense, like medical devices that restore hearing or sight. In...

Myth, wonder, mysticism these are just a few concepts that has entertained and has fascinated the human mind for thousands...

Researchers at University of Utah have recently demonstrated that it is indeed feasible to construct a topological insulator from organic compounds....

Chances have it, if you're working in the field of manufacturing, medicine, research or even sales, that some of your...

Using 21st century nanotechnology, researchers have discovered a new mineral in samples from a meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969....

Researchers have developed a gene engineered vaccinia virus JX-594 - one of the pox viruses - that selectively kills cancer cells...

The tallest tree in the world, called Hyperion, has a height of 115.61m and is located in Redwoods, California. Obviously...

Underneath hundreds of meters of Antarctic ice lie a slew of lakes, completely isolated from the outside world, some for...

There's a common stereotype that depicts athletes as being grunts that are all brawn and no brain. In reality, the truth...

Sockeye migrating up the Fraser River (conserv.org) For years scientists have been studying the salmon migration path, which is one...

For the past twenty years there's been a debate whether the mammal explosion that eventually made the class of animals...

Ancient pyramids excavated in Sudan. Photo copyright Vincent Francigny/SEDAU It's remarkable what astonishing finds archaeologists today still manage to discover....

Here's a global warming reduction plan that might appeal to most of you - work less! According to a Washington thinktank...

If you remember, a few weeks ago I reported on the ISON comet,  discovered just last year, but which is...

The eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus) has its nostrils very closely separated, however it's been proven to be the first mammal...

EPOXI mission image shows what an Earth-like exoplanet might look like from afar. (c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/GSFC The Kepler mission has proven...

The Eurasian Jays are among the most intelligent birds studied thus far by biologists, belong to the corvids, a group...

We're only in the early days of 3-D printing, but even now the breakthroughs made using such technology are most...

A new carbon dating technique developed by Australian scientists may warrant a new extinction theory for the Neanderthals, which according...

Researchers at The Rockefeller University and Paris University 13 have been studying a peculiar, yet highly fascinating ant species called Cerapachys biroi....

Scientists at  New York University have created a type of synthetic particles that can bind and assemble into clusters, similar to...

Vaccines have become synonymous to needles, and for a lot of people they're the subject of horror stories since childhood. Typically, a...

The advent of antibiotics has spared humanity of a great deal of suffering and has saved countless lives through the...

As of 2008, just about one in 100 people in the US is currently living in jail. This amounts to...

Though Siberia stretches across about 10% of the world's land surface, it's only occupied by 0.5% of the world's population,...

(c) Mark French / Purdue University If there's something ever wrong with ping-pong guns is that they fire too slow....

For a few years now, Google has been developing what it claims to be the next generation in user interface,...

Jack Andraka is in his sophomore high-school year, but while other kids his age might be preoccupied with fighting puberty,...

It is generally believed that a cloned animal is identical to its host from where cells were initially harvested, however...

Samuel Yin, a Taiwanese businessman, has recently announced during a press conference in Taipei the founding of the Tang Prize, a...

Presumably, of course, since this news piece has only been delivered by an Iranian state-owned and controlled news outlet, and...

Scientists at Cornell University may have stumbled across the cornucopia gene for crops, after scientific investigations revealed that a certain...

A newly published massive study, where some 133 scientists collaborated, revealed that during our planet's last warm period between ice ages...

A group of researchers at MIT have devised a new method for infiltrating cells with large molecules such as nanoparticles...

Hydrogen is an extremely appealing energy source, despite the immense hurdles than come with storing it. Still fuel cells based...

Clear and solid steps have been taken in the past few years to cancel research, experiments and drug testing on...

Deep Space Industries (DSI), a private space ventures company, has recently announced plans of launching a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft set...

Researchers looked at data that described people involved in car accidents and, after balancing factors like airbag and seat belt,...

The Very Large Array radio telescope network in New Mexico recently captured this amazing view of a 20,000 year old...