As a consequence of last Friday's devastating earthquake near the coast of Japan, the nation's most powerful recorded earthquake to...

Tom Hardwidge is an exceptional English artist who loves to sculpture insects, he calls arthrobots, from... ammunition. Don't be alarmed...

Girls like pink, boys like blue. Girls have long hair, boys have short hair. And so on, so on -...

We now know that pre-modern human tool use dates back far beyond we previously might have thought, each discovery proving...

Besides their evident telecommunications value, satellites also pose enormous benefits when synchronization and navigation are concerned, available and more and...

Dr. Allison Harvey, professor of clinical psychology at the University of California Berkeley, said there are two main reasons why...

In a paper presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, researchers from Michigan University unveiled one...

On Monday the sun fired up an X class solar flare, the most powerful of its kind, the effects of...

I've seen and heard of a lot of crazy apps for the iPhone in my day, some can be classified...

Photo by Ymblanter. International ski resort and one of the most popular mountain resorts in Japan, Mount Zao is host...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have shown that our closest...

Nairobi, Kenya is home to one of the world's biggest slums, more than one million people living in subhuman conditions...

What's maybe China's most prominent symbol, the Giant Panda has been for decades now on the endangered species list, with...

When Al Gore's famous documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" was released it was intended to sensify the public towards the...

I recently finished reading The Generous Man by Tor Nørretranders in which the author tries to explain the awkward act...

In a remarkable discovery, reported Friday in the journal Science by a team of paleontologists headed by Robert Reisz of...

The bubonic plague, known to history as The Black Death or simply The Plague, was responsible for marking one of...

Tuesday at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1051 GMT) a small asteroid dubbed TD54 passed the Earth dangerously close, above a section...

One of the most intense Cold War fronts, and probably the only one to actually provide mankind a monumental legacy,...

Pictured above is an exquisite Roman helmet and mask, dating from the late first to second century AD, was discovered...

I recently came across a very interesting piece in the NY Post which cites a study that shows that while...

According to a newly published study, it seems that rubbing your hands together in a hand dryer actually leaves them...

Commercial space flight is starting to promise to become a very lucrative market since an ever growing interested is harnessed...

The San Andreas fault is notorious for its unstable seismic nature, being the center stage for America's most devastating earthquakes...

Now, that's not Sauron's eye. Pictured above is the most highly detailed photo of a sunspot ever taken at present...

Urine --> Fuel Cells --> Electricity and Water. Don't you just love science? And no, I'm not taking the piss....

Alzheimer's  is one of the most common, yet devastating, form of dementia which currently accounts for more than 5 million...

Two bones bearing the scars of tool use, discovered in Dikika, Ethiopia. Credit: Dikika Research Project. Although the oldest sexual...

An artists rendering of what our galaxy might look as viewed from outside our Galaxy. Our sun is about 25,000...

Mice have been used for research in nearly every field, be it medicine, psychology or genetics. In one recent finding...

Image via Pixabay. I'm not sure if most of you are aware of this, but consider this: there are only...

A group of scientists from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center discovered a new chemical compound that helps newborn...

The above photo was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope around mid last year, proving excellent practice for Hubble's newly...

The leading architectural firm Foster + Partners has recently won an international competition in which companies where supposed to come...

It sounds like something pinned off a SciFi novel, but it seems like new developments in space exploration technology might...

A recent study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that obesity related disorders account for...

A few days ago, something remarkable has been captured by NASA's telescopes, as an unusual set of Gamma rays were...

Photo by Firentzesca Recently, attempts to make "cloaking technology" possible have reached a great level, with major break throws. Among...