The most sophisticated rover developed by NASA to date, the Mars Curiosity rover, is set to land on the red...

A team of researchers at MIT have successfully manage to fabric a fuel cell capable of running on glucose, which...

Carnivorous plants may soon have to give up their meaty habits and turn veggie, as a recent study found that...

Be it a bacteria or a fully complex being, say a human, all living, biological organisms undergo lighting fast protein...

Using the  Subaru and Keck optical/infrared telescopes on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, a 4,200 metre-high summit which houses the world's largest observatory for...

This time last year, the whole scientific community was faced with one of the most controversial findings in recent history...

First discovered in 2005, and then studied in more depth since 2007, NASA scientists have finally isolated the ethereal glow...

This month, the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, an United Nations conference where various issues where...

Fed by ignorance, hypocrisy and frustration, members of an international group of eco-anarchist have, during the past few years, plotted...

A team of international scientists from Britain and the United States have devised a new mathematical formula, considered more accurate than previous methods,...

Atom = at·om, noun \ˈa-təm\, from the greek  ἄτομος (atomos) meaning "indivisible". Apparently the atom isn't that indivisible after all. Scientists at the University of...

A new study from anthropologists at University of Tennessee analyzed the skulls of caucasian American men and women from between the...

Now this is something that doesn't happen everyday, especially from behalf of one of the most paranoid and money-gobbling organizations...

Many efforts and funding have been put into countering vibrations, such as the ones produced by an internal combustion engine,...

Stephen Quake is a professor of bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute....

Curious enough, one hundred years after renowned physicist Max von Lauefirst used X-ray diffraction to unravel the intricate atomic architecture of molecules,...

Located in the western region of South Asia, and spread over what are now Pakistan, northwest India, and eastern Afghanistan,...

The most successful private space flight venture, SpaceX, continues its successful streak which began with the successful launch and docking...

The 2012 London summer Olympic games are just a few weeks away, and as millions are set to flock to the city...

Genetic diversity is what keeps species evolving, helps them tackle diseases and is a prime pre-requisite for natural selection. Understanding...

Besides ever thinning ice, permafrost melting, soot deposits, habitat loss, you might as well add another significant factor threatening the...

A group of researchers at University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new sensory organ in rorqual whales,...

Last Saturday, after many meticulous preparatory stages and a couple of exasperating postponements, SpaceX was set to launch  its Falcon 9 rocket,...

In an absolutely remarkable discovery, Professor Yun Hang Hu, along with associates at Michigan Technological University, have discovered a chemical reaction which...

A new study published by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that pollution leads thunderstorm clouds to...

Nothing short of extraordinary, two people paralyzed from the neck down controlled a robotic arm to perform actions of various...

Scientists have uncovered pieces of fossilized amber containing tiny female insects called thrips, which upon closer inspections were found to...

According to the World Wildlife Fund's annual Living Planet report, humans are using Earth's resources at a rate 1.5 times  greater...

The Cross River gorilla is a critically endangered gorilla species, native to the border region of Nigeria-Cameroon. Today, only about...

Since the space shuttle program was cancelled last year, NASA has been looking for various alternatives to sending manned crews...

Astronomers have observed a huge sunspot group on the surface of the sun, sized at more than 60,000 miles across, which...

Horses are arguably one of the most helpful animals man has ever managed to domesticate. At first they were used...

Last year, we reported on one of the most gruesome and horrific acts that goes on in nature; it seems...

Skin and hair color are most inherited from parents, and usually hint pretty accurately to a person's ethnicity. Dark skin...

An interesting conversation can instantly make a turn for the worst when bad breath hops into the scene. We've all...

During the tumultuous  Cretaceous and Jurassic periods if you could only choose one word to describe the world, it would've certainly be...

Most digital devices today, like displays or blue-ray disks, use lasers which emit the colors red, green and blue, which...

Evolution, in very loose lines, is defined as the process which allows a species to survive by passing on the...

Summer is set to kick-off with a series of beautiful Venus related events, from an astronomical point of view at...

A team of researchers at Penn State University has identified 24 new species of skinks, a subspecies of lizards, native...

Astronomers classify galaxies into three basic types: elliptical (flat, elongated shape), spiral (most easily recognizable and common - described by...

The Amur leopard is a beautiful leopard subspecies native to the region of the Russian far east, which since 1996...

“Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would in your native tongue?” asks Boaz Keysar,...

A team of international scientists claim that they've found evidence of the first non-human species that cultivates planets for non-food...

Scientists have described and proven how many of the world's phenomenae function, from the very fundamental laws of Newtonian mechanics,...

The age-old question of who came first - the chicken or the egg - has been pondered countless times, and...

One of the cutting edge technologies currently used today in manufacturing allows for printing materials directly onto a surface to...

A moonless night might offer the best setting for the best view of the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower in years...

Graphene has been countless times hailed as the material at the forefront of the coming technological leaps ahead in the...

Some time ago we told you about one of the most fascinating facts this blog has ever published, namely how...