A scheme of the generation of induced pluripotent stern (IPS) cells In an extraordinary feat of science, Japanese scientists have used...

According to a recently publicized rapport by the  Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), renewable energy sources could account for...

It's remarkably impressive how a spacecraft built and launched in the late 70's is not only still functional, but well...

Before and after: Current and projected temperature extremes in the L.A. area. (c) UCLA A groundbreaking climate change study,  which...

Kepler, a space telescope on a mission to find alien planets by measuring dips in the brightness of more than 150,000...

If you  feel very proud of your iPhone's 8Megapixel camera or your high resolution DSLR, you might want to consider...

The cheetah is the Bugatti Veyron of the animal kingdom, capable of reaching speeds as high as 29m/s (65mph). Actually, in a...

The permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south pole, called Shackleton, after the famous Antarctic explorer. Left elevation mapping,...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum in Madrid counted chinstrap penguins in Antarctica’s South Shetland Islands in 1991-1992 and again...

DNA 11 combines genetic science with art by providing its customers with their own, unique DNA portrait. Pioneers in the...

The Higgs boson or the God particle, as it's also been commonly referred to, is a hypothetical particle that endows other...

Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Their formed after black holes devour captured material, like  gas dust...

According to biblical account, the Tower of Babel was an enormous tower whose top was intended to reach for the...

Today, only 10% of the currently published scientific papers are open access; freely available to the public online in their...

This Monday, China took a historic step forward after the nation's manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 successfully docked the Tiangong 1 space station test...

The Standard Model of Physics is currently the accepted model which describes how sub-atomic particles behave and interact in the...

In the summer of 2011, Swedish marine explorers looking for various goods from shipwrecks, which sank in the Baltic Sea a...

The most sophisticated rover developed by NASA to date, the Mars Curiosity rover, is set to land on the red...

A team of researchers at MIT have successfully manage to fabric a fuel cell capable of running on glucose, which...

Carnivorous plants may soon have to give up their meaty habits and turn veggie, as a recent study found that...

Be it a bacteria or a fully complex being, say a human, all living, biological organisms undergo lighting fast protein...

Using the  Subaru and Keck optical/infrared telescopes on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, a 4,200 metre-high summit which houses the world's largest observatory for...

This time last year, the whole scientific community was faced with one of the most controversial findings in recent history...

First discovered in 2005, and then studied in more depth since 2007, NASA scientists have finally isolated the ethereal glow...

This month, the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, an United Nations conference where various issues where...

Fed by ignorance, hypocrisy and frustration, members of an international group of eco-anarchist have, during the past few years, plotted...

A team of international scientists from Britain and the United States have devised a new mathematical formula, considered more accurate than previous methods,...

Atom = at·om, noun \ˈa-təm\, from the greek  ἄτομος (atomos) meaning "indivisible". Apparently the atom isn't that indivisible after all. Scientists at the University of...

A new study from anthropologists at University of Tennessee analyzed the skulls of caucasian American men and women from between the...

Now this is something that doesn't happen everyday, especially from behalf of one of the most paranoid and money-gobbling organizations...

Many efforts and funding have been put into countering vibrations, such as the ones produced by an internal combustion engine,...

Stephen Quake is a professor of bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute....

Curious enough, one hundred years after renowned physicist Max von Lauefirst used X-ray diffraction to unravel the intricate atomic architecture of molecules,...

Located in the western region of South Asia, and spread over what are now Pakistan, northwest India, and eastern Afghanistan,...

The most successful private space flight venture, SpaceX, continues its successful streak which began with the successful launch and docking...

The 2012 London summer Olympic games are just a few weeks away, and as millions are set to flock to the city...

Genetic diversity is what keeps species evolving, helps them tackle diseases and is a prime pre-requisite for natural selection. Understanding...

Besides ever thinning ice, permafrost melting, soot deposits, habitat loss, you might as well add another significant factor threatening the...

A group of researchers at University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new sensory organ in rorqual whales,...

Last Saturday, after many meticulous preparatory stages and a couple of exasperating postponements, SpaceX was set to launch  its Falcon 9 rocket,...

In an absolutely remarkable discovery, Professor Yun Hang Hu, along with associates at Michigan Technological University, have discovered a chemical reaction which...

A new study published by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that pollution leads thunderstorm clouds to...

Nothing short of extraordinary, two people paralyzed from the neck down controlled a robotic arm to perform actions of various...

Scientists have uncovered pieces of fossilized amber containing tiny female insects called thrips, which upon closer inspections were found to...

According to the World Wildlife Fund's annual Living Planet report, humans are using Earth's resources at a rate 1.5 times  greater...

The Cross River gorilla is a critically endangered gorilla species, native to the border region of Nigeria-Cameroon. Today, only about...

Since the space shuttle program was cancelled last year, NASA has been looking for various alternatives to sending manned crews...

Astronomers have observed a huge sunspot group on the surface of the sun, sized at more than 60,000 miles across, which...

Horses are arguably one of the most helpful animals man has ever managed to domesticate. At first they were used...

Last year, we reported on one of the most gruesome and horrific acts that goes on in nature; it seems...