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...

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...