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For the first time, a team of researchers claims it's made a fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer module.
Early humans were far better smokers than Neanderthals, and this might have mattered a lot in the end.
The EV revolution is just around the corner.
Things are rough with Zika nowadays, but scientists are now finally testing a vaccine.
Science is getting closer to a computer that mimics the human brain.
We might be too early for the party. Darn!
Scientists tell the story of the final sad chapter in the wooly mammoth story.
Afterthoughts from one of the biggest, brightest science events of the year -- ESOF16.
Who you callin' bird brain?
A long-standing assumption that as the planet warms, the biosphere releases more CO2 in a positive feedback loop was confirmed by researchers.
This week, the city known for splitting the atom is the world's science capital.
A fraction of the world's population will always take the stairs.
This AFM is small, easy to use, and costs much less than many high-end AFMs.
If you want to an objective opinion, you should ask a baby.
Bees have a very keen sense of smell -- they have to in order to survive. But air pollution is seriously plugging their 'nostrils'.
The brain can be fooled that enough nutrients were ingested with a thick drink, despite the drink may contain little to any calories.
Researchers discovered a gruesome find.
Here's what makes a story tick.
In between rising temperatures and human hunters, mammoths and sabretooth tigers stood no chance.
Why build some tech from scratch when nature did all the dirty work for you over millions of years of evolution?
The findings might explain the power of the placebo effect.
Despite having a single visual pigment in their retinas, cephalopods can blend with their multi-coloured surroundings easily fooling both prey and predators.
While the size of Mars' moons is laughable, some scientists believe the Red Planet used to have many more moons.
A team of researchers is revolutionising dental practice.
Antartica's penguins are in trouble.
Who you calling a peabrain?
One of the first science classes children take teaches them about the water cycle on the planet. But how did water get here in the first place?
A truly amazing animal.
The man in question was killed after his car rammed into the side of a tractor trailer which drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S.
Humans -- tyrants of creators? Two researchers explored this duality by studying both extinct species and those who had evolved as a direct influence of man.
Hawking, the most prestigious physicist today, said air pollution has worsened, and so has global warming. All due to humanity's greed and stupidity, which could be the end of us all.
One amateur inventor turned upside down the design of scissors which had been unchanged for two thousand years.
The specimens discovered by the researchers are one of a kind and, unlike previous amber fossils, the feathers were attached to tissue, too.
Chemists at the Ohio State University developed a paper strip technology that might save countless lives in rural Africa, and elsewhere where patients have poor access to medical services.
A"smell organ" shoots scents instead of musical notes to dazzle an audience.
An open letter to U.S. policy makers signed by 31 leading nonpartisan scientific societies reaffirms the reality of man-made climate change.
Stanford researchers found California's drought-struck Central Valley harbors three times more groundwater than previously thought.
NASA’s Space Launch System will be the most powerful rocket humanity has ever built and 2020 onwards, it should make history as the craft that put man on Mars.
Global warming is greening the planet, but there's only so much CO2 plants can absorb.
We just bought some more time.
Earth's magnetic past wasn't as simple as today.
Oh yeah, chemistry!
Insects are among the best disguise artists in the world, and new findings suggest they always have been.
The island rule is not a myth, but an evolutionary reality.
Imagine what it would be like if cancer was contagious. Well, it is in some species.
It took a year and 30 students to make the fastest accelerating vehicle in the world: the grimsel.
Visitors to the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, home to the largest reptile display in Central Australia, were stunned by the sight of a snake who spun in circles countless times in a ring made from its own skin.
Not only does it look gorgeous, but it also has many remarkable properties that could transform the way artists work.
Can a woman without a lab coat still be a scientist?
Even days after we die, gene expression is still active.
