The holidays are nigh, and if you haven't put out your Christmas tree just yet, maybe you'd like to consider something truly special....

(c) Flickr Labelled as an outcast by the rest of Santa's sleigh pulling reindeer, Rudolph the red-nose reindeer, though mocked...

In a novel and highly praised research, a team of astronomers have managed to estimate the mass of our host...

With implications for everything from quantum computing to microbiology, scientists have for the first time imaged the shadow of an...

Like every year, Nikon and Olympus each organizes a contest where microscopic photos from the world of biology are judged...

Reconstruction of Canis dirus (dire wolf) with two possible aspects according to its probable geographic origin: South-American or North American....

A massive coronal mass ejection. (c) Wikimedia Commons A rather frustrating issue for astronomers and astrophysicists is space turbulence. Like...

Detecting a potential threat before it occurs is the first step to preventing any aggression. In today's wars, the scales...

A team of scientists at University of Colorado Boulder is currently working on self-assembling robots the size of a ping-pong ball that...

A still shot from the movie "Decay". As you can see, the Higgs boson radiation is so effective in animating...

The discovery of the Higgs boson is the most monumental find in physics of the year and possibility since the...

The Geneva based Large Hadron Collider has gobbled a lot of cash and resource in order to become operational, but...

(c) Corel Photography In the most comprehensive and thorough survey of its kind, an international team of scientists sampled, sorted...

Researchers from the University of Michigan and University College London have found that trees in the Amazon forest will be able to withstand even...

Biologists have identified a new species of small nocturnal primates, part of the slow loris family, in Borneo's forests. Don't...

Scientists at UC San Diego have finally collected the fruits of their decade-long labor after they managed to genetically engineered algae that...

About one in three breads is thrown away because it gets too tough and infected, and thus inedible, because of...

Dubbed Kenshiro by his makers at Japan's University of Tokyo, this kid-sized robot is the latest in cutting edge musculoskeletal machines. The...

Professor Gregory Retallack of  University of Oregon has launched a highly controversial claim that stirred the scientific community recently, implying that...

It seems like a scenario from a bad spy movie: someone hacking a medical device like an insulin pump or...

Purpurin, left, extracted from madder root, center, is chemically lithiated, right, for use as an organic cathode in batteries. (c)...

Nonrefractive visual impairments, the kind that can't be corrected by glasses, have reportedly increased 21% overall and 40% among non-Hispanic whites...

(c) Rafael Libanori, Randall M. Erb and André R. Studart Flexible electronics are still in their infancy, however scientists have...

Yesterday morning, the U.S. Air Force launched its X-37B robotic space plane into orbit via an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida's Cape...

(c) Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images Boredom seems to be a dominant "affliction" of the 21st century. That's not to say it's...

After going to a Boston club a few years ago, Mike Abramson, now a Worcester Polytechnic Institute grad, had a...

You might not know this, but 76-year old actor Alan Alda, known for his role as Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce...

The Mars Curiosity rover is preparing to use its drilling tool for the first time, however as preparations for the...

An artist’s rendering of the quasar 3C 279 (credit: European Southern Observatory) Determining when stars first started to form through...

rdue and Harvard universities. The transistor is made from tiny nanowires of a material called indium-gallium-arsenide, which could replace silicon...

Coincident with the much anticipated release of the new Lord of the Rings flick, a forensic anthropologist went through the...

Some scientists alter genes and breed glow in the dark puppies, others breed pineapples that also taste like coconut, like...

For the first time ever, researchers at at Cambridge and Cardiff, have identified and compiled a list of damaging or disease associated...

A new study released by Danish researchers at Aarhus University has found a correlation that suggests that couples that are unable to...

A fantastic photo of a shooting star from the Geminids over Joshua Tree National Park. (c) (Photo: Henry Lee/Flickr) After...

Georgia Tech researcher Zhong Lin Wang shows the tiny components of the new hybrid self-charging power cell that uses piezoelectric...

Utah State University has demonstrated a first-of-its-kind electric bus that is charged through wireless charging technology. The Aggie Bus, shown...

Researchers at  Parabon NanoLabs have developed an unique tool that allows scientists to use an intuitive drag-and-drop computer interface, much like in...

Over the past few years, a series of papers looked on how the United States could benefit by switching from...

After it was first cast out to sea less than a year ago from San Francisco's bay, the PacX Wave Glider,...

Astronomers have come across something truly amazing. Observations have surprised a protostar - a star in the making - in...

Solar Impulse, the now famous 100 percent solar-powered aircraft, made the headlines after it proved it could fly for 26...

Lighting has gone a long way since Thomas Edison ushered in the first mass-produced light bulbs, causing not only a...

Scientists at MIT have created tiny, millimeter-scale robots inspired by proteins that join together and can fold into various shapes. Though...

The much discussed soil analysis samples taken by Curiosity have finally been made public by NASA at the recent  American Geophysical...

This artist's concept shows NASA's two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer...

Society today is trying to make-up for lost time during the western world's patriarchal culture and bridge the gap between...

Artist impression of Skylon, the aircraft set to be fitted with the breakthrough SABRE jet-rocket engine. (c) Reaction Engines Passionately...

These are actually designs assembled with lego bricks, but based on the same principle, scientists have devised a new method...

The fist planet from the sun is the unlikeliest place you'd expect to find water ice, but new tantalizing evidence beamed back...