Virgin Galactic, Virgin's commercial space flight branch, just recently announced that the first phase in the construction of the world's...

The arctic ice volume recorded last fall was the lowest ever since the first satellite reports were introduced, according to...

A team of researchers have shown in a recently released paper published in the journal Royal Society Biology Letters that...

Currently, only about 30% percent of the total scientific workforce is comprised of female scientists. Thousands of years of cultural...

Researchers from Princeton University recently published a study in which they show how they've been able to use functional magnetic...

IBM recently made public its intentions of developing what will be upon its completion the world's largest data array, consisting...

As space agencies around the world, predominantly NASA, are considering building outposts outside Earth for the most likely far distant...

Following the recent failed launch of an unmanned vehicle in a three stage Soyuz rocket this past Wednesday, the International...

The mating between Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens has been a highly controversial matter between scientists in the anthropology scene...

The oldest, up to now, fossil has been found recently by a team of Australian and UK geologists, who claim...

A small, yet frightening earthquake, registered at 5.9 magnitude, sent shivers down people's spines all the way from Ottawa, Canada...

It's generally known that people of above-average physical looks are at a greater social advantage than people of average or...

The United States and Gabon are the only countries left in the world that are still using chimps for medical...

Diamonds are for a nano-second - in the glitter of a candle light, that is. In a stroke of brilliance,...

Despite an evident contrast, geologists claim that the region of modern day El Paso, Texas was once attached to the...

I was lucky enough this weekend to be away from the city and at an altitude of about 1800m, deep...

Well, I guess Han Solo should be more careful where he parks his spaceship from now, since Swedish treasure hunters...

Biologists from Edinburgh University might have stumbled across a significant discovery, after strapping a tarantula to a magnetic resonance imaging...

A team of researchers from Yale University have shown at a cellular basis why we tend to be more forgetful...

An image of Lophiomys imhausi, the African Crested Rat. I've always amazed how some non-primate species manage to sometimes use...

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...