After a devastating earthquake, most often buildings will crumble trapping people inside its ruins. Search and rescue teams work effortsly...

Humans are hot-wired to scan other people in their surroundings, and determine whether their trust worthy or not, all by...

Sensitive robotic arms capable of mimicking the precise movement and manipulation of a human's hand have been used extensively in...

A stroke of pioneering science, researchers have managed to restore hearing to a significant level in guinea pigs by using...

Researchers of Texas A&M University have managed to develop a synthetic compound capable of breaking apart the AIDS inducing virus...

In a remarkable find, archeologists have uncovered two ancient pits, perfectly aligned with the sun's natural summer cycle. These suggest...

On November 26, after countless delays, budget overruns and buckets of sweat, humankind's most capable machine of landing on and...

The term "urban jungle" gets tossed a lot, however it can take a literary connotation when you think of beautiful...

Dogs have a long history alongside humans, as faithful companions. Besides friendship, however, canines offered humans also the means to...

A group of ophthalmologists and optoelectronics scientists are currently working on contact lens that can display information directly to the retina. So...

Currently, China is the world's largest carbon emissions contributor. Despite their efforts to make energy consumption more efficient, China's linear...

The ever faithful Hubble telescope has offered us yet another fantastic glimpse into the Universe's hidden gems. Captioned below is...

Two weeks ago, panic engulfed the Russian space agency after one of its dearest project, the  $170 million Phobos-Grunt mission, which...

Scientists from the École Polytenchnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with the aid of colleagues  from the Salk Institute for Biological...

This weekend four unmanned robot vehicles set out to cross the Pacific Ocean, for the longest voyage of this kind...

Authorities have come across a giant mound of 250,000 scrap tires in rural South Carolina, so spread out that it...

Paleontologists have found a link between cataclysmic volcanic eruptions around 252 million years and greatest mass extinction the Earth has...

The Vostok capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin embarked on April 12, 1961 to become the first person in space.  This...

Frogs are able to leap across huge distances, multiple times greater than their body length, however their leg muscles are...

The idea which states that nothing can travel faster than light is a corner stone of modern day physics, upon...

  Jupiter's moon Europa. (c) Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis Yesterday, NASA held a press briefing where scientists...

Scientists have genetically engineered mice able to express a certain enzyme, which allows for an increased metabolic rate. The lab...

For years and years scientists have tried to make hydrogen exhibit metal properties, by experimentally proving what's already been more...

Cancer is currently responsible for 13% of all worldwide deaths, and although remarkable progress has been made in treating this...

Here's how renewable energy can be proliferated easily trough out the world, the developed one at least - scale it and...

A new study which capitalized on an extensive ongoing survey, shows that children with high IQs, especially girls, are more...

In 2009, a rather controversial new wing of the CIA was formed under the climate center moniker. This division was,...

Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of numerous whale fossils, dating back from seven million years ago,  in Northern Chile. On...

The rotifer is an extremely fascinating creature, mainly due to its wheel-like head, which also also earns it the name...

Conservationists are prepared to declare the Western Black Rhino officially extinct soon, after poaching killed off the remainder of already...

On November 1st, only a few weeks ago, China opened a new chapter in its space program after successfully docking...

Biofuels are considered one of the leading alternative fuels on the market right now, because of their lower impact on...

One of the fundamental backbones of the Big Bang theory states that after the rapid expansion of the Universe only...

(c) NASA After the International Space Station was completed, scientists noticed that exposure to weightlessness may have some deleterious effects...

A recent art photography exhibition, dubbed  Amazon, is currently on display at Somerset House in London, which brings together two remarkable, distinct...

University of Nottingham researchers are currently involved in synthetic biology project, whose scope and prospects are so ambitious, that if...

In the first study of its kind, a group of researchers have quantified the financial impact of climate-change infused natural...

There's nothing not to love about animals. Since the dawn of mankind, animals have offered humans food, clothing and company....

The Hubble telescope has captured through an innovative technique, which harnessed light bent from a distant galaxy in a optical...

The city of Dubuque, Iowa is a quite and clean city, housing a population of 60,000, making it the 8th...

Almost one year and a half ago six volunteers embarked on a fictive mission to Mars, designed to simulate the...

Part of an ambitious NASA survey over the Antarctic, which intends on 3D mapping the continent's glaciers in detail, one...

A very intriguing theory says that the Vikings used to navigate through traitorous Arctic waters, and possibly even through the...

The gecko is one of the most fascinating lizards, because of its feet's unique ability of dry adherence to solid surfaces allowing...

Trekkies might rejoice at the news that NASA has recently decided to fund a research group employed to study how...

Developing safe, reliable, compact, and cost-effective hydrogen storage technologies is one of the most technically challenging barriers to the widespread...

“I’m never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch?”, Fry, Futurama. The clumsy yet beloved...

A biblical-like creature has sprung out into the world recently, when a  two-headed albino milk snake was born - an...

In just a few hours, at 5 p.m. EDT, China will make another giant leap forward in its ever ambitious space...

I'm pretty sure some of you went out costumed as robots this Halloween weekend, be it as Star Wars' C3PO...