The moon wasn't actually blue in this photo, as the photographer used a blue filter for his camera. (c) Kostian...

China is set on covering a lot of lost ground in its race of becoming a full fledged space super...

Workers explore South Africa's Border Cave. A study shows modern culture may have emerged in the area much earlier than...

Just last week, man's first step on the moon turned 43 years. Uncoincidently, maybe, NASA announced recently that its Lunar...

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed what's considered...

Touchscreen technology has been in use for many years, but when the first iPhone came out some six years ago,...

Graphene is an atomic-scale honeycomb lattice made of carbon atoms. It seems scientists have yet to draw the line on...

A giant landslide on Iapetus reaches halfway across a 75-mile (120 kilometer) impact crater.(c) NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Planetary scientist Kelsi...

If you're reading ZME Science from home, chances are that you've got a can of beer or soda in someplace...

A new research has found that the massively powerful O-type stars, which can be up to 90 times more powerful...

Scientists from Britain have found a remote ice rift valley, up to one mile deep, under the ice in Antarctica. The...

Defense, like offence, is expensive for any animal. It takes resources and a lot of energy, and for some, it...

Alright, the analogy might not be the best. The Large Hadron Collider is a high energy particle accelerator, while the Alpha Magnetic...

According to the Fluoride Action Network there are at present 24 independent studies which have a direct link between fluoride...

Artist impression of the Kepler-30 solar system, complete with its planets' orbits. (c) Cristina Sanchis Ojeda Researchers at MIT, the...

Without more careful monitoring and efforts, some protected reserves are actually doing worse off than before. Wikimedia Commons Biodiversity helps...

The 3D printing revolution is right around the corner. While we might still be a few years away from seeing...

When you first see this magnificent painting by Ukranian painter Oleg Shuplyak, your brain perceives the portrait of the famous...

One of the many Mayan stucco masks uncovered at the newly discovered temple. It shows the Maya sun god as...

NASA satellite images showed the extent of surface melt on Greenland's ice sheet on July 8, on the left, and...

In this amazing slow-motion video, the folks from ZT Research used a high resolution camera to capture a full lightning...

You just got out of the office, looking to head home to a soothing dinner, only to find that it's...

A new research has found after analyzing the genomes of polar bears and brown bears that the two species interbred,...

For the past couple of years NASA has been testing a new atmospheric re-entry system, designed to offer pods and...

In what can only be described as a milestone in biological and genetic engineering, scientists at Stanford University have, for...

A team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Harvard University have built this remarkable display...

Hey, guys! We've received some great feedback from our previous contest, when we offered an awesome DNA portrait to one...

Artist's rendering of the oldest known spiral galaxy - 11 billion years old. The red area in the upper right...

Squids and cephalopods, in general, might not be the sexiest animals out there, but their mating systems are quite interesting,

Researchers at the University of Delaware and the Canadian Ice Service recently reported that an ice island, whose surface is...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently gave its seal of approval for the introduction of  Truvada on the pharmaceutical market,...

Magnificently beautiful, the elusive snow leopard is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central Asia. Adapted to living...

Scientists from U.S., Britain and Denmark have recently reported in a new study that conclusive evidence, in the form of...

False-color image of the recently erupted, powerful X-class solar flare, whose corronal mass ejection is expected to reach Earth's magnetic...

A raging issue at the moment, in both government bureaus and bar chats alike, is global warming. Is it just a natural...

Graphene is one of the most phenomenal materials discovered in science. It's so thin, it can be molded into sheets...

Exactly 50 years ago, on July 12 1962, the the world's first active communications satellite, Telstar 1, transmitted the first live...

Astronomers have discovered a new moon orbiting the dwarf planet of Pluto - its fifth - only a year after...

In 2010, a NASA study published in the journal Science heralded the discovery of a bacteria, called GFAJ-1, which the authors...

An international team of astronomers may have come across the first sound evidence testifying the existence of dark galaxies -...

The surviving authors of the Higgs boson paper stand to a round of applause, after the discovery of the subatomic...

The skeleton of an ancient caveman dubbed Brana 1 yielded the oldest DNA found in a modern human. CREDIT: Alberto...

Ed Lu, Chairman of the B612 Foundation, shows the telescope of a model of the Sentinel Space Telescope during a...

In today's fast evolving world of tech, miniaturization is crucial. In most portable consumer electronics goods, like smartphones or tablets, the typical...

One of the pottery fragments recovered from a layer dating approximately 20,000 years old in the Xianrendong cave in south...

(c) S. Zhong and J. Giovannoni A newly published researchers by scientists at University of California Davis and Cornell University...

Not even the quickest pistol drawer from the wild west could have ever stand a chance against the Janken robotic...

Aus­tra­lo­pith­e­cus sed­iba skull That's right. Scientists have found that one of our early ancestors, the Aus­tra­lo­pith­e­cus sed­iba, South Af­ri­can spe­cies from...

You're not the only that doesn't like math, it seems. A new study from scientists at Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences...

A talented team of students from the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering has set a new record for the longest flight...