One of the most outstanding dreams astronomers and other scientists hope to accomplish is to someday encounter proof that extraterestrial...

Plastic surgeons at University of Maryland performed the most complex facial reconstruction surgery to date, which included the replacements of...

Hailed as yet another big step towards devising working quantum computers, scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have successfully managed to generate quantum...

In the year 2011 alone, the US faced 14 extreme weather events, while Japan registered record rainfalls and the Yangtze river...

This Friday, ground mission control ordered the current stationed astronaut crew at the International Space Station to head for the...

Neurons are the absolute core components of the nervous system that transmit information through electrical and chemical signals. I once...

When the brain deems an experience meaningful enough, it will transfer that information from short-term storage, where typically information like...

You might have thought I made a typo and that I was probably meaning to say $500 million, but truth...

After a three year effort, researchers at Virginia Tech have successfully managed to create a silicone robot that functions underwater by...

The now retired Concorde turbojets were the fastest civilian airliners in the world, capable of carrying passengers from Paris to...

Since it was first discovered more than four hundred years ago by Galileo Galilei, Jupiter's innermost moon Io has played...

One of the biggest anthropological mysteries scientists have been trying to unravel is the long put question of  how did...

July 20th, 1969 marked the day man first set foot on the moon, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gracefully...

China is the most pollutant country in the world, and as it continues to develop industrially, one can only expect...

We've reported in the past about the frightening, ever growing cases of honeybee population dye-offs of the past few years,...

If you think today's urban air, thickened with noxious smog, is terrible, just imagine how the Earth was filled in...

Just came by this architectural solution proposed by  LED Architecture Studio for revitalizing Italy's most polluted area, the industrial town of Marghera,...

Last September the whole scientific community was set ablaze by a the controversial claim set forth by CERN scientists, part...

The plot of the Hollywood blockbuster flick Armageddon is fairly simple - a giant asteroid is hurling towards Earth, threatening...

An incredible find was publicized just earlier  - fossils remains from stone age people were unearthed from two caves in...

The Cambrian era marked a profound change on life on Earth, sparking the rapid development of complex organisms and a...

An emotional video collage of talks made by Neil Degrasse Tyson dissing the current poor attention NASA has been receiving,...

Paleontologists have recently named two new horned dinosaur species, closely related to the famous Triceratops, which were dug up from a...

A remarkable research whose findings recently published in the journal Cell, concludes that intense physical exercise leads to chemical alteration...

A team of researchers at Vienna University of Technology constructed various nanoscale models of incredible precision (St. Stephen's Cathedral, London's Tower Bridge...

In what might seem an oddball experiment in the first instance, later revealing some very interesting scientific facts, a Kyoto University...

Atomic clocks are the current most accurate time and frequency standards, capable of operating with an uncertity of only a...

A group of researchers at MIT have successfully managed to create a light emitting diode (LED) that has an electrical...

Once flames brake loose, the close confinements of ships or subs suddenly transform into a hellish scene, claiming the lives...

Researchers have completed the great apes family's genetic library after they sequenced the genes of a western lowland gorilla, joining the already-sequenced...

Since they were first introduced more than 70 years ago, electron microscopes have aided researchers from a diverse array of fields of...

Velociraptors have been repeatedly described by paleonthologists as voracious predators, however a recent study of a 75 million year old...

A recently published study suggests that the Earth might have been visited by a giant space rock 13,000 years ago,...

A lot of people were left disheartened when the iconic space shuttle program was canceled last year. Though it's now...

The biggest manhunt in physics history is steadily closing in on its target. Wanted - Higgs boson, also known as...

Faster than light travel is not only an exciting SciFi concept which has spurred the imagination of countless geek generations...

Trees employ a fractal structure of branches to twigs to spread a wide array of leaves for maximized sunlight collection....

What are the differences between a bottle of premium, high rated Pinot Noir and a shelf classic Merlot? Well, besides...

Scientists at University of California have successfully managed to engineer a new kind of hydrogels, capable of self-healing, which can...

Are you fed up with meaningless, rambling conference speakers? All too tired of phone calls around you at work? Wish...

Worldwide, motor vehicles currently emit well over 900 million metric tons of CO2 each year, amounting to more than 15 percent of...

The prospect of medical implants capable of delivering drugs directly to the patient's blood stream or tissue has been an...

While there's a common assumption that once with old age, sleep quality tends to deteriorate, a recent study published in...

A newly published paper in the journal Science provides a worrisome report - the world's oceans are acidifying at a...

The term Mars opposition basically refers to a geometric event. Thus on the 3rd of March, Mars will appear exactly...

This year's TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) recently took place in Long Beach, California, and as expect, the event was...

Located beneath the three stars that form the belt of Orion the Hunter, the Orion Nebula is one of the...

During man's exploits through out history, a great number of species were driven to extinction, either by excessive hunting, habitat...

Psychedelic mushrooms have been used for medical, ceremonial and spiritual purposes for thousands of years, due their mind-alterating properties which induce hallucinations,...

Last week we reported about a 300 million year old fossilized forest which was discovered underneath a coal mine in...