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,...

This news couldn't have come any sooner. It was just last week that we reported how gamers made a monumental...

Last week, ground shattering news hit the scientific community worldwide when CERN announced that their experiments showed that neutrinos fired...

A while ago I posted a piece on NASA's Spirit Rover last transmitted photo from Mars, before it ultimately died...

The Slinky is one of the most popular toys in the world, being used by children in the playroom and...

Remarkably enough, scientists from Tel Aviv University in Israel, have manged to implant an artificial cerebellum in a rat's brain,...

In a classic David vs Goliath scenario, scientists have observed how the Epomis beetle larvae simply devour frogs, several times...

The Chinese space program is set to made a giant leap later this week, when its first orbiting docking station,...

Generally, yawning is considered a sign of fatigue or boredom, and it has been shown to be contagious in humans....

Earlier this year, NASA launched the Argentine SAC-D satellite that has a number of instruments whose sole goal is that...

What's maybe the most shocking announcement for the scientific community this whole millennium came earlier today from Geneva, when scientists...

Licking 9 volt batteries or tasering yourself with a fork stuck in a power plugs is apparently evidence enough to...

In January, 1997 Lottie Williams was strolling through a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her friends around 3:30 AM, when a...

Recent figures published in a report prepared by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency...

Scientists from the UK and Hungary have run various experiments to verify the claim of US researchers that a certain...

In 2008 a deadly earthquake hit the Sichuan province of China killing tens of thousands and living millions homeless -...

Scientists from the University of Washington have been struggling for the past decade to decipher the complex structure of an...

Common sense might tell you that only mammals are capable of lactating, it's a little know fact, however, that some...

A bridge or tunnel of some sorts which physically connects Asia with North America through the Bering Strait has been...

All you clinically diagnosed anxious readers might want to boot your therapist and settle for a cheaper, more comfortable alternative...

A remarkable discovery which turns once again turns fiction into reality, the Kepler spacecraft has found the first confirmed planet...

In the past decade global warming levels have remained stable, despite no significant improvements in green house emissions have been...

A team of neuroscientists from Stanford University have managed to create a remarkably tiny device capable of monitoring brain activity...

On July 29th the Cassini orbiter probe captured a stunning glimpse of five of Saturn's satellites beautifully aligned. Cassini has...

A team or Scottish scientists are pushing material science on the extreme side by conducting research which, they hope, will...

Artist impression of HD 85512b, a viable candidate for the first Earth-like planet to be discovered. (c) Kornmesser/Eso The HARPS...

Biomechanics has come a long way during the past few decades, on trend with the exponential growth of CPUs and...