The AAA Foundation for traffic safety ordered a handful of studies that assess the effects marijuana legalization had on driving...

On May 8, Germany generated a record high amount of renewable energy. Solar, wind, hydro and biomass plants together generated...

How many friends do you think you have? A hundred, twenty... two? Chances have it, you actually have only half...

Carrots are the richest source of vitamin A in the American diet, which is why you hear "they're good for...

"Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful," said Warren Buffet, arguably the most...

Soft robotics involves machines designed to resemble biological systems like squids, caterpillars, starfish, human hands and more. Though far less...

Known as the “ship of the desert”, the dromedary camel is one of the largest domestic ungulates and one of...

To check where you stand among the age demographics in the U.S., Nathan Yau of Flowing Data made this interactive...

Both civilian and military applications have become heavily reliant on digital communications, which in turn are dependent on space hardware...

Developed by researchers at MIT for over a decade, the 'second skin' is a transparent, silicone-based polymer that can be...

One energy expert from the U.K. made headlines with his bold comments. He says oil companies have only 10 years...

In the movie, The Matrix, Neo masters over a dozen martial arts in a fraction of a second as the...

Thanks to robots, surgery has gone a long way since these have been introduced in the '80s making operations safer...

A Shenzhen startup has received 200 orders for the Martin Jetpack, what they call "the world's first practical and commercial...

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1".

When researchers at John Hopkins factored human errors they found this was the third leading cause of death in the...

By all account, we can only perceive three spatial dimensions: width, length and height. Everything seems more vibrant and 'real'...

Being left-handed isn't easy in a right-handed world. Let me tell you, though, at least you're better at math!

While most of the world is sluggish about EVs, Japan seems to be light years ahead. The island state's pro-electric...

There are Google self-driving cars, Google-made phones and notebooks, and soon there might also a be a Google city.

A lot of car makers are definitely jealous of Elon Musk and his success, but how many would actually want...

Nutritional labels can be daunting to read if you have no idea what to look for. Most of us don't...

There are as many as 400 billion stars in the Milky Way alone. In this sea of light, it seems...

The Isle de Jean Charles that lies on the Gulf coast of Louisiana is sinking. In less than 70 years,...

Self-driving car tech is moving fast -- so fast the laws haven't had time to catchup.

Here's something you'd never expect to happen in a place with average temperatures of -67 degrees Fahrenheit -- Mars' flowing...

In April, the United States hit an important milestone in the quest for full renewable energy transition after the one-millionth...

Animals have evolved all sorts of gimmicks for either attack or defence. Some are really over the top, but that...

A rocky body that's neither exactly a comet nor an asteroid, may hold some interesting clues about how the planets...

This beast is called GE9X -- the largest jet engine ever built. Standing at 13 feet in diameter, it's wider...

A team of engineers piggy-backed photosynthesis using a nifty pot called the Bioo Lite. Just place almost any plant inside,...

If you're old enough, you might remember how some flowers around where you live blossom earlier or that summers and...

Renewable energy is growing furiously fast.

There's good bacteria and bad bacteria, but the gut seems to be so diverse in its bacterial offering from person...

How can some people actually like a serial killer, like Dexter from the eponymous TV show ? What about a...

Scientists have also quantified the effects of climate change as they relate to oxygen depletion. Their analysis suggests that by...

This remarkable research could open the doors for biological thermometers at the nanoscale which might tell us a thing or...

A new research investigated various light intensity scenarios and reported their findings. For optimal learning performance, "cool" light is better...

Spanking was associated with a high risk of children defying their parents, becoming aggressive and anti-social. In the long run,...

“How do you do very high-level science or engineering with very little?” Asks Martin Thuo, an assistant professor of materials...

Physicists have crammed water inside extremely small cracks about ten-billionth of a metre and found the molecules entered a never...

As CO2 builds up in the atmosphere, this warms the planet, acidifies the ocean and melts glaciers. It also promotes...

If you don't want bed bugs biting you, then changing your sheet's colour might help. A recent study found bed...

Park rangers risk their lives on a daily basis to protect wildlife from poachers. They're also underfunded and understaffed, so...

At a high-level signing ceremony in New York, more than 170 countries signed up to the landmark COP21 climate changed...

North America was home to several mammoth species, but a new study suggests these weren't that genetically diverse as previously...

A new study suggests that in the United States, residents might experience three to nine more days of unhealthy ozone...

Sauropods, or some titanosaurs at least, were not the best parents. A recent analysis of juvenile fossils belonging to a...

Men who consume high-fat diets are far likelier to feel sleepy during the day and sleep poorly at night, researchers...

In a novel study, researchers have identified for the first time the heritable components that influence how early or how...