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...

The most powerful explosion in the Universe - a gamma-ray burst-  might have hit Earth during the middle ages. Luckily...

As computing power grows and becomes ever more accessible, passwords become easier to crack day by day. If you want...

Exactly 50 years ago, Cambridge researchers Watson and Crick published a monumental paper that for the first time described the intertwined...

(c) Image by ESA/DLR/FU Berlin Using combined imagery delivered by the  High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) and recent color channel data, the...

Scientists at Duke University have devised a metamaterial that uses microwaves to image objects or scenes in real time, all...

Holodeck caption from the USS enterprise At his recent keynote 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, Tim Huckaby dazzled...

A new study from researchers at Queen's University Belfast, UK, found that indeed shellfish, like crabs or lobsters that are...

The new results demonstrate at the single-molecule level how solvent-induced collapse of an environmentally responsive copolymer modulates surface adhesion forces...

There are some 30 million facebook updates pushed on the massive social network every hour, so it might seem like...

Native plants on a California reserve (in bloom on mounds in background) are found in marginal, patchy habitats following invasion...

The whole point of technology is that of aiding mankind, and it has done so since the advent of fire...

Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel...

Along the years DARPA has proposed, tested and implemented a slew of preposterous sounding projects like the Minority Report-like interface...

A concept design for a inflatable space station module. (c) Bigelow Aerospace Recently, NASA announced in a press release that...

A materials science researcher at MIT has devised a novel technique using nanoparticles that allows heat flow to be treated...

Photograph of Comet West, one of the greatest comets of all-time, taken by an amateur astronomer. (c) John Laborde Discovered...

Astronomers from Britain's University of Central Lancashire have recently published a landmark paper that describes the largest known structure in the...

Researchers who had performed the first high detail 3-D reconstruction of early tetrapod (four-legged animals) backbones claim the first land...

For the last few months, we've been hard at work developing a new custom community feature for the ZME Science...

The ultimate goal of all current Mars missions and observations is that of finding evidence of life or, on the...

Besides being a great family time activity and an awesome display of art for some who have way too much...

Hearing loss is a grave healthcare problem around the world, with 50 million cases in the US alone. The most...

The year is 2013, but offices and business headquarters are still riddled with stacks and tonnes of paper. The future...

A firefly specimen from the genus Photuris, which is commonly found in Latin America and the United States and served...

Back in 2008, Hubble released a stunning image of a very bright star called Fomalhaut which spanned a huge disk of...

The Vela pulsar. (c) NASA. After almost ten years, the team of astronomers at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have released a...

Fast-acting molecules organize themselves more randomly (left) under certain temperature conditions than slower-acting, more systematically organized molecules. The more systematically...

The new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5. (c) NASA Launched just last year, NASA's Nuclear...