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...

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...