The sun recently shout out an M3.2-class solar flare in our direction, which scientists expect to hit the Earth this...

US-based scientists have successfully managed to engineer a microbe that reacts with seaweed to produce ethanol, and thus making it...

Black Holes are the least understood entities, so far, in the Universe. However, if there's one thing scientists know for...

In a remarkable feat of engineering, scientists have come a huge step closer to achieving what's maybe the greatest green...

In our very own Milky Way galaxy alone,  astronomers estimate there are between 200 billion and 400 billion stars. Of...

Moore's law states that the level of technology and computing power should double every two years, and so far the...

The ever scientifically productive Hubble just came out with another gem that will help scientists unravel the mysteries of the...

In the age where consumer electronic are purposely built with short lived life cycles, there might seem to be no...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient urn dated from the Mayan classical period, which after a thorough chemical analysis was found...

Researchers at Berkley University have developed an extraordinary robotic toy car called the “Tailbot”, equipped with a stabilizing tail, which is...

A subspecies of the the giant Galapagos tortoise, Chelonoidis elephantopus, long thought to be extinct for more than 150 years, is...

One of my favorite past times is filling sudoku puzzles. There's something about this seemingly simple, yet challenging, dance of...

Cloaking used to be one of my favorite SciFi themes. James Bond supercars that would show up or disappear instantly...

The rhesus monkey twins, Roku and Hex ("six" in Japanesse and Greek respectively, since they were made from six distinct...

An array formed by the greatest space telescopes in the world  first discover, then photograph this ancient galaxy from the...

The Stonehenge site, 5,000 years old (new discoveries place it far back in history), still remains of the world's greatest...

We're at the dawn of a new exciting era - the private space age. More and more companies and influential...

Researchers have successfully managed to create a "solar paint" made out of quantum dots, which exhibits similar properties to multifilm solar...

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger goes the saying, however researchers at NY's University of Buffalo wanted to scientifically...

Scientists from CalTech University have set a new world record for data transfer, after they successfully reached a combined rate...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with the  independent Environmental Integrity Project, have identified 20 new sites in the...

According to a new study by researchers at University of Melbourne, prolonged stem cell cultures are subjected to a relatively significant risk...

After what can only be described has a frustrating, sleepless month for the Russian scientists involved in the Phobos grunt...

Apparently, parts of Greenland's southern bedrock rose by as much as three quarters of an inch after glaciers and ice...

Researchers studying a primitive fish exhibiting an eel-like body, and which can breath above water, claim that the creature's ancestors...

Heralded by NASA as the best meteor shower of the year, the annual Geminid skyline spectacle is set to peak...

Isaac Newton is one of the most influential figures in physics, the first to stipulate the fundamental laws of motion...

Since NASA retired its space shuttle program this summer, the space agency has been left with no viable means of...

Scientists at University of Bristol's Centre for Quantum Photonics have remarkably managed to create a multi-purpose optical chip capable of...

This past year alone, scientists have reveled no less than 208 new species in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, among them a...

According to Chile's Centre for Scientific Studies (CECs) it seems like an array of glaciers located in the country's south...

Chewing without actually eating seems pretty weird, if you think a bit about it, even so it's a highly popular...

Paleontologists have been familiar with the Alamosaurus for decades since the first fossil sample was discovered in 1922, however previous...

A team of researchers from led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill's Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories,...

This summer Japan was hit by a tremendous 9.0 Richter scale earthquake, which generated one of the most powerful tsunamis...

Known as "Cockerell's bumblebee", this particular species has managed to elude entomologists and basically anyone else with the trained eye...

A new independent study conducted by researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, has concluded that natural...

New Jersey will soon be home to the closest thing to Jurassic Park so far, after yesterday the only press...

For the past few months, the mighty Katla volcano, close to the Icelandic coast, has been exhibiting intense seismic activity,...

Lunar eclipses are one of the most dazzling sights you'll ever have the chance of experiencing, though unfortunately they are...

Every NASA spacecraft sent to missions on other space bodies, like other planets, asteroids or moons, needs to adhere to...

You've seen a wasp, you've seen another, and might think they all look the same, however it seems that among...

Amazing architecture goes hand in hand with amazing engineering, and a Swiss/Italian team is showing how the pair will be...

The Grand Canyon area is a veritable national symbol for the US, and nature alike. Its frightening, yet brilliant view...

Last week, the court appeal which sought to put the mighty Grizzly bear back on the endangered species list, and...

Baseball is typically a team sport, but for innovative scientists like the ones staged at the International Space Station, there...

"Good moose, bad moose. The elephant? All the same."  Babies as young as eight months old want to see bad...

We're inclined to think that gestures are reserved to species which at least possess some kind of articulated limbs. However,...

There are numerous challenges that come with outer Earth colonization of distant planets like Mars, or our neighboring moon, and one of...

Does flicking a dice really render a random face? The answer would be no. The dice is governed by large-scale...