UAE might harbor in its Dubai oasis the world's current tallest building, its Burj tower, but neighboring Saudi Arabia isn't...

More like props from a James Bond movie than something that might have come from a scientific lab, a new...

Archeologists unearthed from Mexico's underground a spectacular Olmec-style stone carving depicting three sitting felines, dated from 700 B.C. Dubbed the...

The latin phrase "mens sana in corpore sano" has been put to the test by researchers who wanted to study...

(c) Genesis In a recent groundbreaking research study, scientists from Seoul National University in South Korea have successfully created a...

The famous volcano in Sicily has been subjected to a number of eruption in this highly active past year. This...

Crop circles have always been an important weapon in any conspiracy theorist's arsenal, certain to be mentioned alongside UFOs, green...

There's no secret to anyone, I believe, that the world is over-crowded right now. By the end of 2011, according...

It wasn't just a devastating asteroid that killed off all the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists from Boston University...

Studying the immense 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire, which burned 401 square miles and becoming the largest tundra fire on record,...

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Chinese paleontologists have detailed their impressions on the finding of a chicken-sized...

Recently, China's Yellow Sea has been clogged for a surface of nearly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) by a...

A new Oxford University study shows how people living further away from the equator have bigger eyes and brains than...

The Universe is in constant expansion, which is why it is commonly said to be infinite, so basically one can...

A watery death awaits the International Space Station after its programmed retirement in 2020, according to a recent statement released...

Brain-Art competition is an annual celebration of the beauty and creativity of artistic renderings emerging from the neuroimaging community. Last...

A team of Hong Kong scientists have proven that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum,...

Arthur Ganson is a mechanical engineer by trade and a kinetic sculptor at heart. His mechanized devices spur up spirit...

A patrol by park rangers and an Ecuador navy ship made the largest shark seizure in the country's history, when...

Increased heat emissions by a volcano located in the Aleutian were detected via satellite by the Alaska Volcano Observatory, which has...

Astronomers have discovered the largest body of water so far known, a reservoir of water floating in space around a...

CERN researchers have announced this Friday that they may had caught a glimpse of the fabled Higgs Boson particle, also...

I know some of you are either nostalgic or plain tired of all the Atlantis posts we've been publishing lately,...

There are few more dazzling sights in the world than that of the great Norther Lights, and in a exercise...

Around 200 million years ago, the Earth was still one big continent - the great Pangaea. Around that time came,...

According to a new study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),  tiny solid and liquid particles in...

Scientists at Fermilab’s Tevatron particle collider on Wednesday voiced excitement about the observation of a new particle. The new particle,...

News of a low-cost semiconductor-based gene sequencing machine has been reported this Wednesday in the journal Nature, by a team led...

unknown photoshop credit. via Gizmodo There were a lot of firsts during the initial lunar landings, especially during the very...

Astronomers have discovered a fourth moon orbiting Pluto via the famous Hubble telescope, NASA announced this Wednesday. Some of you...

Mike Schropp can be considered a geek-tinkerer, a person whose passion for hacking, tweaking and generally setting things apart animate...

Incredibly enough, using a a simple, standard issued astrophotography set-up, amateur astronomer Scott Ferguson was able to film in incredible detail...

A recent discovery made by Argentinian paleontologist uncovered wasp cocoons hidden inside the 70 million year old fossilized egg of...

This weekend, NASA's DAWN spacecraft finally put a lot of tension and nerves to rest after it successfully entered Vesta's...

After a four year journey, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will finally reach the orbit of Vesta, the second largest asteroid in...

Scientists from North Carolina State University have successfully managed to engineer a new kind of soft, malleable memory device that...

Adenoviruses are nonenveloped (without an outer lipid bilayer) icosahedral viruses, characterized by a particular large size compared to other types...

The world bee population is at its greatest trial in years, as thousands of bee populations die off each year....

In the first ever-survey of its kind, geologists have managed to discover a chain of massive underwater volcanoes, some as...

Dubbed MBE, after the intricate molecular beam epitaxy process, this device developed by scientists at Sharp Laboratories in Oxford, England,...

A recently published remarkable study describes how scientists from Japan have successfully manage to grow teeth inside a lab using...

There were a lot of crazy exhibits on display at this year's Robotech 2011, and one of the most impressive...

Paleontologists have unearthed in Montana the fossilized bone of a the last known dinosaur  so far, dating back from 65.5...

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A bit late on reporting this, but I'm still struck with amazement by this extremely peculiar case of precipitations. Last...

Anyone scarcely into Iron Man will tell you they wouldn't want anything more for Christmas than a bone melting ray...

Despite unfriendly whether filled with low lying clouds and a last moment countdown glitch, which gave of all the 750,000...

It's pretty evident for anyone living in a big, crowded city what pollution looks like and to what degree our...

Seriously, what the heck?

At 300,000 kilometers/second, the speed of light is constant in vacuum, such as space, when it encounters a different medium,...