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...

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...