The BIOSwimmer nautical robot takes its inspiration from the tuna. (c) Department of Homeland Security. This might sound hilarious, but...

From time to time, the sun projects billion-ton clouds of charged particles from its scorching surface, surrounded by a solar...

Two studies conducted by scientists at NASA based on data gathered by the Dawn spacecraft, which orbited around the Vesta...

A feline genetic study has revealed that a particular gene variation in a cat's chromosome is responsible for the stripped...

In Philip K. Dick's novels, a common denominator is the complete autonomy of the surrounding technology. The human characters often...

Boy, oh boy. Here's a run for your dollar - DARPA's latest ultimate threat detection system seems like it's stripped...

Neuroscientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have created an atlas of the human brain, which highlights the activity of...

Researchers have found what's believed to be the oldest dental feeling in history, dating from the stone age. The find...

In 1996, hundreds of US Air Force specialists, scientists and affiliates established an extensive study called Air Force 2025, in...

By doping graphite, researchers in Germany have reported that they found tantalizing hints of superconductivity at room-temperatures and far above,...

This four pound geological marvel, captioned above, is what's commonly reffered to as a lunar meteorite. And like all things...

Phobos transit over sun. (c) NASA As once can see above, Curiosity recently caught glimpse of a partial solar eclipse...

Rodney Brooks held in a fatherly grip by Baxter. (c) David Yellen Rethink Robotics has been in the attention of...

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) is the most powerful sky survey instrument yet built, a collaborative international effort which took more...

MRI of one of the authors (MK) is used for illustration. A, with the landmark for left zygion (ZygL) highlighted,...

We've seen a lot of concepts cross the realm of SciFi into reality, however transferring fabrics of imagination to practical applications which...

A group of archeologists have identified the oldest known Roman military fortress in Germany, located near the small town of Hermeskei. The...

An artist impression of one of the two gas giants discovered orbiting a sun-like star, part of a star cluster....

(c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./ USGS/Modesto Junior College In the past couple of months, all Mars-related attention has been almost unanimously shifted...

While it may lack most of Bruce Wayne's gadgets, the very first artificial bat cave in the world is sure...

Atomic level imaging has come a long way in the past decade, and after scientists first managed to image molecular...

This bright little fellow is known as the lesula to the local people of a remote part of the Democratic...

If you thought the computer devised out of soldier crab swarms was cool, wait till you hear what scientists at Aalto...

The findings of a new research at UCLA, suggest that cramming all night before a big test, something that we've...

Anthropologists have discovered an ancient skull in  a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos, which according to subsequent dating...

The sun has been extensively studied by astronomers for the last 50 years. While previous research suggested that the the...

After UAVs inspired by hawks, robotic stability control spun from leaping lizards, wall climbing derived from geckos or the swimming artificial...

The first skull excavated from the site, with a mortal wound caused by a spear or an arrow. Photo: Curator...

According to recent findings as a result of observations from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), it seems like the moon's...

Immediately after the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as a result of the devastating tsunami which swept...

Since it landed, the Mars Science Laboratory mission has offered a series of premieres for space exploration like the first-ever panorama of...

Several groups are seeking to have the great white shark declared an endangered species by the federal government. (Al Seib,...

Not one, but two independent high-energy particle physics laboratories in New York (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - RHIC) and Geneva...

Spintronics, or spin transport electronics, is a sort of emerging technology that scientists have been studying for a while in...

(c) DANA SMITH Dr. Jay Bradner, a physician and chemical biologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, makes beating cancer sound...

Ok, enough of the low-res, black and white photos from Curiosity. NASA just released the first high-resolution, nearly dust free,...

This is a still image from a video fly-through of the SDSS-III galaxies mapped in Data Release 9. (c) SDSS...

Strap on your 3-D glasses, folks. Curiosity is back on ZME Science, this time in full 3-D. We just got...

Hope you're all not too bored by the influx of Curiosity we've been feeding these past few days. We believe...

Two recently released studies by teams of international researchers sequenced the genomes of two major strains of the parasitic disease...

Yes, Curiosity has landed! And like we've reported earlier, right after the rover landed on the martian surface, it beamed...

At precisely 10:32 p.m. Pacific time (1:32 a.m. EDT/0530 GMT), today, August 6, NASA's Curiosity Rover touched down on martian soil...

Many people who have gone through near-death experiences recall a "light at the end of the tunnel". Such cultural aspects...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile is back with yet another stunning gem. This spectacular spiral...

Both Boeing and SpaceX are set to split as much as $1 billion in federal awards destined to spur development...

Anthropologists believe cacao beans and pods were mainly used in pre-Hispanic cultures as a beverage, a practice which can be...

Octopoteuthis deletron. Image: UC Berkeley Seems like there's always a study that comes along once in a while describing yet...

Scientists who studied sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off the Antarctic coast, have found on subsequent analysis fossil...

Arguably one of the most recognized landmarks in the world, London's Tower Bridge received a full relamping in celebration for...

Someone whose been driving for 20 years, let's say, in the United States and somehow ends up driving a car...