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...

Skin and hair color are most inherited from parents, and usually hint pretty accurately to a person's ethnicity. Dark skin...

An interesting conversation can instantly make a turn for the worst when bad breath hops into the scene. We've all...

During the tumultuous  Cretaceous and Jurassic periods if you could only choose one word to describe the world, it would've certainly be...

Most digital devices today, like displays or blue-ray disks, use lasers which emit the colors red, green and blue, which...

Evolution, in very loose lines, is defined as the process which allows a species to survive by passing on the...

Summer is set to kick-off with a series of beautiful Venus related events, from an astronomical point of view at...

A team of researchers at Penn State University has identified 24 new species of skinks, a subspecies of lizards, native...

Astronomers classify galaxies into three basic types: elliptical (flat, elongated shape), spiral (most easily recognizable and common - described by...

The Amur leopard is a beautiful leopard subspecies native to the region of the Russian far east, which since 1996...

“Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would in your native tongue?” asks Boaz Keysar,...

A team of international scientists claim that they've found evidence of the first non-human species that cultivates planets for non-food...

Scientists have described and proven how many of the world's phenomenae function, from the very fundamental laws of Newtonian mechanics,...

The age-old question of who came first - the chicken or the egg - has been pondered countless times, and...

One of the cutting edge technologies currently used today in manufacturing allows for printing materials directly onto a surface to...

A moonless night might offer the best setting for the best view of the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower in years...

Graphene has been countless times hailed as the material at the forefront of the coming technological leaps ahead in the...

Some time ago we told you about one of the most fascinating facts this blog has ever published, namely how...

It seems we've been privileged with yet another time-lapse video showing our marvelous blue marble planet in all its splendor as seen...

Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist at University of California in San Diego, was recently fined by a police officer for allegedly driving...

Sometime at the beginning of the year I mentioned in post that once stepping into the age of Terahertz electromagnetic...

Researchers at  North Carolina State University have developed a new technique of cooling electronic devices which they claim and prove...

IBM has teamed up with Zapadoslovenska energetika (ZSE), the biggest electric company in Slovakia, for a feasibility study which aims to prepare Bratislava, the...

A remarkable paleontological discovery surfaced from China recently, after scientists reported they've found fossils belonging to the Yutyrannus huali,a very close...

Encompassing years worth of work, the  Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has now precisely measured the distance between over a quarter...

While on the macro-scale conventional scales make us of gravity to measure mass, on the microscale there are a myriad...

To test their algorithm, the researchers designed and built a system of 'smart pebbles' — cubes about 10 millimeters to...

Backed by an international consortium, ten years from now the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world...

Boston Dynamics is at the forefront of robotic research and development at the moment, fact very easily attested just by...