Astronomers at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have come across a true astronomical oddity at the outskirts of the Milky Way,...

Since the advent of modern DNA sequencing technology, biological research and discoveries has been dramatically accelerated. It's absolutely instrumental to...

There are currently an estimated 19,000 individual space debris swirling around Earth's orbit at 17,000 miles/hour, posing great threat to...

There's some good coming off China's extensive coal exploitation (the nation holds the top place for most pollutant emissions resulting...

Exactly two years ago, NASA launched a $850 million spacecraft, called the Solar Dynamics Observatory, on a five-year long mission...

A team of German and American researchers have discovered four new species of tiny chameleons on the island of Nosy...

You'd be surprised by how many of today's day to day devices were first developed after its creators got inspired...

3D perspective of a single-atom transistor. (C) RC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication, at UNSW. Australian scientists at University of...

In what can only be hailed as a breakthrough in the "smart drugs" field, scientists at Harvard University have successfully...

The Robonaut 2, an autonomous NASA robot commissioned to ease the lives of astronauts on board the International Space Station...

Most of the robots we've featured on ZME Science are more or less humanoid in their characteristic. Either they can...

Researchers report that after testing on lab mice an FDA-approved drug, used as treatment for skin cancer, that significant improvements...

Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison recently carried out an linguistic analysis that compared descriptions posted by online dating sites users...

Butterflies are one of the most enchanting beings in the animal kingdom, a symbol of grace and beauty encountered in...

Night is quick to sound the alarm for most of us that it's time to hit he sack. While you're...

Scientists from China, US and Mexico have used light detection and ranging laser altimetry (LiDAR)  to study how an earthquake can change...

The leading theory that explains why zebras are striped (remember the age old riddle? black stripes on white or white...

The first genetically engineered or biotech food products were released on the market for the first time in 1994. Consumers...

This incredible photo of the Carina Nebuna, a massive star formation , was taken by the  The European Southern Observatory’s Very...

Last year, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, produced a draft of the Denisova genome, in order study...

The size of a fist when fully grown, the tiny Philippine tarsier has always been considered a very quiet being. Ironically,...

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Space offers incredibly fascinating experimental conditions for various scientific studies, otherwise very hard or practically impossible to replicate on Earth....

Hailed as a breakthrough in reconstructive surgery, an 83-year old woman had her lower jaw replaced by an exact 3D...

Whenever a massive object, with an equally massive gravitational pull, like black holes or galaxy clusters, falls between an observer,...

It took 30 years, an enormous amount of effort and patience, and drilling through 3,768 meters of thick ice for...

The Russian space agency recently announced that they'll be soon launching a campaign to recruit cosmonauts for upcoming missions to...

A group of students from Yale University, along with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, were on a routine trip to the Amazon's Yasuni...

For the past three years, scientists have been analyzing  data fed back by the 2008 NASA Phoenix mission to Mars, which...

Last week, NASA released a incredibly stunning high resolution photo of the Earth captured by one of the instruments aboard the...

Modern technology has revolutionized the way we communicate forever. From the telegraph, to the wire telephone, to the internet, to...

The hunt for finding another Earth is making progress every day, as scientists are constantly adding new viable candidates to...

From a certain age onward, humans seem to process information at a slower pace - learning new things becomes more difficult,...

I used to see moths as simple, clumsy beings, whose sole purpose in life is that of annoying people by...

Casey Holliday, a University of Missouri researcher, was looking through some of the hundreds of unlabeled items kept in a...

A team of researchers, lead by itch expert Gil Yosipovitch, have studied which parts of the body produce the most...

A mouse skull relative to an elephant's skull. (c) Alistair Evans Around 140 millions years ago, mammals didn't even outsize...

Most of the aurora borealis videos we've featured on ZME Science, besides the fact they're absolutely gorgeous, are time lapsed....

Darwin's theory of natural selection illustrates perfectly what evolution is all about, the survival of the fittest if you will....

Detailed in a recently published study, a team of ophthalmologists have successfully managed to improve the vision of both of...

Canadian duo, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both only 17 years old, have managed to put the infamous Lego man,...

Researchers studying marine bacteria in the Bahamas' underwater caves, have made some remarkable discoveries which allowed to understand how these...

In the popular TV series, Star Trek, one of the most fascinating devices featured, out of the whole myriad of...

The bond between man and dog has always been extremely evident, an unconditioned friendship, at least from the dog's part, which has...

The much dreamed off invisibility cloak is just a few tiny steps away, after remarkable research in the field, many...

A while ago NASA launched its next generation weather satellite, the Suomi NPP satellite, into low-orbit, on a mission to  collect critical...

University of Bristol scientists have developed a magnetic soap, which basically is a common soap only it's filled with iron...

Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser fired upon a neon gas capsule...

By harnessing the science of both quantum and nano physics, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have come up with...

The Fourier transformation is arguably the most important algorithm in information technology, with immense applications as well  in optics, signal...