Hypnosis has been considered for the past 250 years by the scientific community as being nothing more than a cute...

Floods are a major hazard to crops worldwide. This year alone, billions of dollars worth of crops came to waste...

A new study published by researchers at University of Hong Kong has produced controversial waves among the astronomy community, as...

Stunning Northern Lights ... or more like North-ish Lights in Marquette, Michigan Northern Lights. (c) Shawn Malone The northern hemisphere...

In the new mobile information age where smartphones have become an ever common part of our lives, there seems to...

Researchers at Linköping University have taken up themselves to study the intricate personality of the sperm donor. What they found...

This Friday morning NASA will upgrade its climate and weather observatory capabilities, when it's set to launch a new, high-end...

Looks like one of NASA's latest priorities is to protect its lunar heritage from illegal black market trade of moon artifacts,...

They didn't actually use other mastodons as killer pets, instead it's been found that early hunters used mastodon bones for...

Satellite deployments make up most of the space launches in any given year, however it's also a highly risky operation....

At the nano scale, even the slightest of motions can be harnessed and transformed into useful work. Material science researchers...

Another one from the realm of James Cameron's movies - a robot that can build other robots. While the technology...

While the Earth is steadily being depleted of its natural resources, it might become imperative to look to the sky...

What you just saw in the video above is a perfect demonstration of the quantum levitation effect, through a fairly...

Set it went into operation, Fermi's Large Area Telescope has detected 1873 gamma rays out in space, of which only two...

Back in 2008, the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft made a fascinating discovery when it found a metres-deep cave in the Sea of...

Real-time Through-wall Imaging Using an Ultrawideband Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Phased Array Radar System. (c) MIT Lincoln Lab A common...

For most of us, many of the actions we undertake are made while taking into account how others perceive them....

Bosco Verticale is an ambitious eco project in Milan, designed by architect Stefano Boeri, which tries to blend two discrepant...

Global warming has significant consequences to Earth's ecosystems, each effect triggering another one in a slew of chain reactions. Frighting enough, rising...

Overlooking the Indian Ocean, lies the beautiful Blombos Cave in South Africa. It was here that archeologists uncovered red and yellow...

We've become so accustomed to the imagery of huge stacks of solar panel arrays stretching across the scorching desert, that...

Just 6 years after the first cloned canine by scientists from South Korea, ironically a country which has dog on...

No, not the sports car, neither the predatory feline, but Oak Ridge National Labs Jaguar - a supercomputer of immense computing...

Part of an amazing initiative to lower its carbon footprint and inspire the rest of the aeronautical industry, billionaire Richard...

A virtual trek, that is. NASA has just released a stunning video comprised of 309 photos the agency's Opportunity Rover...

Humans, as well as most mammals, have only two sets of teeth to make with during their entire lifetime. However,...

A few days ago I reported how researchers found a myriad of new virus strains inside raw sewage. On a...

In the darkest caves of  southwest China, one can experience fragments of the long set Ice Age and travel back...

The most popular video sharing website in the world, YouTube, has teamed up with NASA and several other key figures...

Hundreds of millions of years ago the Earth surface and oceans were inhabited by fierce predators of huge proportions by...

Most of us tend to believe the Earth is a safe heaven, with little regard to outerwordly consequences. The truth...

ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has found an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus, similar to that surrounding Earth and...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, is a definite oddball of the solar system. It has its axis titled...

You've seen James Bond's vanishing Aston Martin or Frodo's Elven cloak, and probably always wished for your own means of...

Someday, in the next 100 years, Star Trek's Enterprise might pass to the realm of reality. This weekend one of...

Well, it's pretty obvious that the rotten, insalubrious sewage environment is perfect for fostering infectious diseases and virus cultures. What's surprising however...

Shark populations have declined at a rapid pace during the past few decades, with a significant number of species being...

Record low ice volumes in the arctic caused by global warming have been reported this year, and if there are...

Physicists from Rice University have made an important break through in the field of quantum computing, after creating a tiny...

As the winter ski season is rapidly approaching, snow sports enthusiasts all over the world are already planing their trips,...

Learn what are the elements identified by science that make a catchy tune.

Photo by catalano82. Strollers along the San Diego shoreline experienced their own kind of Northern Lights these past few days,...

Mixing in a typical fMRI brain scanner with advanced computer modeling simulations, scientists at the University of California have managed to...

I'd like to divert from a potential discussion which might build around the trillions of dollars spent on defense by...

If harnessed at a much greater potential than it is now, sunlight might not only become the primary source of...

Armageddon can wait, NASA's in charge for a little while longer. The space agency recently released to the general public...

Astronomers at  UC Santa Cruz have set  a new benchmark for cosmological research for decades to come maybe, after successfully simulating...

Sociologists from Cornell University have scrambled through half a billion twits from the web to map out the way moods...

People used to think Chimpanzee tool-use was impressive, but it in the past decades it has  been documented that dolphins,...