Dinosaur wipeout caused by comet, not asteroid – new study finds
The current leading theory that explains the mass extinction of the dinosaurs - once the dominant group of animals on...
Ancient volcanic eruptions caused mass extinction 200 million years ago
Some 200 million years ago half of all life on Earth went extinct, thus providing a window of opportunity for...
Toddlers are a bunch of little hypocrites, study finds
If you have really young kids, under three of four years old, you might have noticed just how tricky they...
First working phaser built: a laser that shoots sound
A false-color scanning electron microscope image of the etched circuit that produces the sound laser. (c) Imran Mahboob Trekkies have...
Map of the earliest recorded light paints broad picture of the ancient Universe
Cosmic microwave background seen by Planck. (c) ESA Using the incredible Planck cosmology probe astronomers at the European Space Agency have assembled...
Tiny blood testing device inserted under the skin delivers instant results
Miniaturization is a fad that's increasingly popular in the field of medicine for obvious reasons, and scientists at EPFL have recently made...
Ancient tectonic plate re-discovered beneath California
(c) Brown University Millions of years ago, an ancient tectonic plate called the Farallon oceanic plate used to sit between the...
Early asteroids in our solar system may have been giant mudballs, not rocks
There are millions of asteroids in our solar system. Be them the size of France or a small bus, these...
High-quality Neanderthal genome published for open access
German scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have completed the first high-quality draft Neanderthal genome sequence,...
Seeing a reaction in real-time using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, once home to the longest particle accelerator for...
Skyscrapers made out of wood: a feeble idea or a mark of the future?
(c) Green Up until the mind XIXth century most homes and buildings were made out of wood, a readily available...
Amazing photos of comet PAN-STARSS. Also, anonymous donation of $3 million helps keep observation program alive
This month the PAN-STARSS comet can be seen at its brightest, a truly rare event that can be witnessed in...
Bigger and meaner hurricane surges expected in the future due to climate change
Hurricane Sandy storm surge makes its way through Atlantic City, N.J. (c) 6abc Action News An extremely worrisome climate model...
Curiosity rover halted once more due to computer glitch. More signs of ancient Martian water found in the meantime
The Curiosity rover is in a bit of trouble and is currently facing it's longest period of inactivity since its...
Great leaps forward have been made in the fight against the biggest hidden virus
A virus that most of us carry, yet which is remarkably obscure both to the immune system and the general...
Hundreds of dinosaur eggs found in Spain hints to common nesting ground
(c) Miquel Crusafont Catalan Palaeontology Institute Paleontologists were stoked by the discovery of hundreds of fossilized dinosaur eggs, belonging to...
Study proves humans can read a dog’s emotions just by looking at its face
Mal's various emotional stances. (c) Walden University A recent study that asked human participants with minimal experience with dogs to...
When laying the foundations for life, the Universe leaves little room for error
Light quark mass determines carbon and oxygen production and the viability of carbon-based life. Image credit: Dean Lee. Earth and...
Scientists resurrect extinct frog species that gives birth through its mouth
The gastric brooding frog incubates and hatches its eggs in its gut. The hatchlings then exit through the frog's mouth....
Ancient bird species had four wings
Images of fossils belonging to the enantiornithine genus. Feathers on the primitive bird's hind legs provide evidence of an extra...
Higgs boson discovery confirmed after CERN scientists reviewed massive LHC data
The science of physics has entered a new era once with the discovery of the much sought-after Higgs boson in...
China’s next-generation internet infrastructure tightens security
The Chinese government is well on track in its plans of implement a modern and more secure internet infrastructure. The...
Rare and elusive triple quasar system discovered
An infrared image of the triple quasar system made using the 3.5-m aperture telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory. The...
Horny, military trained killer dolphins on the loose in the Black Sea
This might be the weirdest news piece you'll read all day. Apparently, the Ukrainian navy is only one of two navies...
Astonishing news from NASA: evidence of hospitable environment for ancient Martian life found
I just finished watching NASA's latest and definitely most important Curiosity briefing to date. There the Curiosity team announced findings...
Watch NASA’s latest Curiosity briefing live @ 1 P.M.
The space agency just recently tweeted that it will hold a public briefing centered around the rover Curiosity to inform...
Global temperatures reaching 11,000 years peak
Hotter than ever, basically.
SpaceX’s Grasshoper makes record hop. One step closer to reusable rockets
The Grasshopper reusable spacecraft in mid-flight. SpaceX, a company that has made tremendous leaps forward in the past year alone,...
Reversible evolution demonstrated for the first time after dust mite genetic study
A rather well rooted idea in evolutionary biology says that evolution itself is non-reversible. Simply put, once an organism has...
How the brain concentrates at one speaker at time in noisy crowds
An illustration that represents how brain activity synchronizes to that of an attending speaker, while ignoring other speakers in background...
Northern latitudes become greener as a result of climate change
A group of international researchers assessed 17 state-of-the-art climate model simulations and based on these have found that temperature seasonality...
Internet for robots comes online
Just recently European scientists have released the first part of the Rapyuta program - a global world wide web for robots....
Antarctica in the past: warm and flat, before glaciers shaped it
We have a rather sound image in our heads of Antarctica: cold, barren and damn well inhospitable. Million of years...
Central African elephant population more than halved in a decade
An international team of researchers set out on the daunting task of surveying the Central African elephant population. Their results...
Buried Mars river tells of recent megaflood
Our understanding and appreciation of Mars has greatly shifted in the past decade alone. If previously scientists used to thought...
A scientific explanation for the “phantom limb”
An amputee suffering from phantom pain maintains a representation of the phantom hand in their brain. (c) Oxford University Every...
Canadian Arctic was once home to giant ancient camel
Illustration of the High Arctic camel on Ellesmere Island during the Pliocene warm period, about three and a half million...
Vaccine that works for newborns might save millions of babies
Babies need to wait until they're at least two months old for vaccines to work, which leaves a lot of...
The 2018 manned mission to Mars will use poop as radiation shielding
An artist's illustration of the Inspiration Mars Foundation's spacecraft for a 2018 mission to Mars by a two-person crew. The...
SpaceX Dragon Capsule docks with ISS
A screencapture of the Dragon docked with the ISS. (c) NASA.tv After a great deal of excitement following a glitch...
Wireless brain-interface boasts promising start
Neural interface implanted in a monkey (credit: David A Borton et al./J. Neural Eng.) We've showed you some incredible brain-computer...
Bacteria clogging of medical devices is more serious than previously thought
A team of researchers at Princeton University have devised an experimental set-up that closely mimics the flow of bacteria through...
Analysis of King Richard’s mummified heart reveals preservation process
The dusty remains of King Richard I's heart. (c) Philippe Charlier A group of French researchers have published a paper...
Rats’ brains connect to form an organic computer
In an incredible feat of neuroscience and communications, researchers at Duke University School of Medicine formed a link between pairs of...
SpaceX launches third flight to the ISS, Dragon capsule suffers engine glitch
(c) NASA Just a few hours ago, SpaceX launched its third flight to the International Space Station tasked with carrying...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for first time – nears the speed of light
Artist's impression of a spinning supermassive black hole with a surrounding accretion disk and relativistic jets. (c) NASA/JPL Astronomers have...
Virus steals bacteria immune system and kills it
Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine came across a particular strain of bacteriophage - a virus that infects and replicates within...
Pessimists live longer than optimists, study finds
While brighter expectations of the future might help most of us battle the harsh realities of life, a recent study...
Tadpoles can see through eyes implanted in their tails
An eye growing on the tail of a tadpole. Most animals have eyes in the vicinity of their brains, typically...
Amazing buzz saw fish mystery finally solved
(c) RAY TROLL 2013. (Photo : Flickr/Ryan Somma) In 1899 the famous Russian paleontologist Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky published a paper in which...