Of all the despicable things I thought possible going on around the Amazonian Rainforrest,  using an extremely powerful chemical agent...

Using a new X-raying technique and device, based on synchrotron radiation, scientists have been able to  map the pigmentation of...

Seiji Uchida is 49 years old and for the past 28 years he's been left paralyzed from the waist down...

On display at one of the featured stands at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition is a pair of...

If we're to guide ourselves after Aubrey de Grey's telling, according to his predictions the first person who will live...

In the past decade, it seems that greenhouse has emissions have remained constant each year, despite no important improvements were...

Space shuttle Atlantis will embark this Friday on its final journey, symbolizing the end of NASA's illustrious space shuttle program....

There isn't any news for anyone, I hope, that the Earth is on the heater right now, and as time...

Each year for three weeks, professional cyclists suffer at great lengths, enduring both physical and mental pain, in the Tour...

In a recently patented research, UCLA geneticists have shown and demonstrated how they've accurately been able to predict a person's...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar known so far, dubbed ULAS J1120+0641, powered by a supermassive black hole with a...

According to a new study by scientists from University College London, it seems people who find optical illusion solving easier...

NASA just confirmed the shuttle's last-ever mission will launch on July 8th. The space shuttle Atlantis will blast off headed for...

For the 2012 panicked or just the doomsday memorabilia  collectors, Kacey Wong's doomsday survival suit will definitely spark interest. The...

Whether its filling the space between oranges in a box or squeezing molecules between cells, wasted storage space is a...

This Monday (June 27), an asteroid the size of a bus just buzzed our planet after a flyby which brought...

A job can be as hard or easy as you make it to be, depending on how much you enjoy...

What if you could power regularly used consumer electronics, like for say a laptop, just by using them? It's an...

Gas prices have sky rocketed during the past five years, and so far it seems to know only one trend...

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's super sand! *tadam Researchers from Rice University have managed to develop a...

Launched in 1997 on a mission to study Saturn and its satellites, the Casisni spacecraft reached the system in 2004....

Dubbed EDWARD, this most inspiring electric two-wheeler has managed to forge a simple Star Wars geek fantasy into reality. The...

Ghastly nails on a blackboard or deafening sires don't come any close to a infant's whining as far as annoying...

Climate change and over-fishing are held responsible for the swift collapse of coral reefs and the propagation of mass extinction...

A team of neuro-scientists have managed to restore lost memories to rats by activating a part of their brains through...

Akkadian, or Assyro-Babylonian, is the oldest attested written language - the code for the cuneiform writing system. Texts written in...

We previously reported about an incredible gamma ray burst triggered by a black hole, so powerful that nothing like this...

Last year, Iran successfully launched a rocket that carried a mouse, a turtle and worms into space. This summer, the...

The brilliant image from above was captured by Spitzer space telescope and depicts a ring shaped region formed by hot...

Launched in in the late 1970's in a mission to study the planets Jupiter, Saturn and their respective satellites, the...

The river Ganges has literally been at the center of Indian life for thousands of years, both socially and spiritually....

Researchers have found that the mystical experiences obtained by volunteers under the psychoactive substance found in hallucinogenic mushrooms has lead...

Brain surgeons must have the best sense of humor in the whole scientific community. Seems like a team of German...

According to a recently published study, computer processor chips made out of nano-scale magnets could yield an efficiency close to...

An Australian engineer boosts that he has successfully managed to build a working hover bike, one, he claims, that you...

When Google Earth was first released I was simply struck  with amazement by the myriad of features the software was...

Last year, in October, China launched its second moon orbiter, as part of the country's rapidly growing reformed space program...

Although they've been around for a while, 3D printers still manage to impress me with the quality and precission of...

After a long period of research and debates 114 and 116 are now the heaviest elements in the periodic table,...

In a relevant display of  NASA's fireball-observing network capabilities, a set of automatic robotic cameras caught a man-sized meteor as...

Project Icarus is an extremely fascinating initiative which aims to bring humanity closer to the stars. The latest theory proposed...

More and more countries are seeking to ban or at least limit the use of plastic bags or have already...

Captioned above is the very last piece of transmitted imagery by the now defunct Mars Spirit Rover (rest its soul;...

For most, a jetpack can be considered more of a SciFi concept than a viable, realistic flying contraction. However, recent...

Cats are surprisingly independent pets, which I'm sure most of you who own one already know, and as I'm steadily...

After she suffered a stroke, a 36-year-old professor started to feel sounds. In the beginning she didn't know what was...

Two years ago, NASA's LCROSS probe was looking for signs of water when it smashed into Cabeus crater at the...

In an amazing feat of electrical engineering, scientists have managed to set a new landmark in optical communications by transmitting...

Pictured above is a cardinal, and if you don't see anything special about it yet, you should check out its...

While a 3D map of the Universe using the light from 14,000 quasars has been previously released to the public...