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There is a lot to learn -- and a lot to change.
Veggie burgers -- yay or nay?
Nobuaki Nagashima has Werner syndrome, which causes his body to age at super speed.
I, for one, would not want my donation money ending up as a settlement for pet killing or paying for shocking and misleading campaigns. There are other groups more worthy of our support.
She brought a new understanding of mathematics, while helping to change a corrosive culture in academia.
If soba noodles and tempura can't solve the problem, then what can?
The answer is often 'yes'.
The world is experiencing a dramatic surge of populism.
A story worth reading.
An anime math problem? My favorite.
Finding a solution to this problem is key to ensuring that research does not stagnate, but instead continues to flourish.
A problem that turned out to have more sides than initially thought.
Millenials love organics -- here's an overview of the impending revolution.
Tip of the hat to the people who make science books so, so pretty.
A unique experiment challenges all of us to fight for a sustainable future.
It's not a simple problem and it doesn't have a simple answer -- but here's what we can do.
We need to talk about plastic straws -- and about banning plastic straws.
A team of researchers forced bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds, and their experiment showcases why life on our planet chose carbon.
It's not easy to pinpoint the reasons why this is happening.
It also has an 'evil sister' project!
It's being build today using only tech and know-how from the 13th century. Loads of fun!
As beautiful as it gets.
Bird's eye view.
Amazing.
Not just a pizza topping. Mushrooms could really become an important building material in the future.
An illustrated timeline of the greatest moments in science.
An artist and naturalist, a woman who braved a wild continent and tropical diseases for her passion and left behind remarkable works.
The story of how a 12-year-old boy from Vienna snuck out the Sistine Chapel's biggest guarded secret by genius alone.
The oceans are as beautiful as they are bizarre.
How one organization is proposing solving climate change by looking inwards, not outwards for solutions.
It’s the perfect tattoo for people who forget to water their plants: Ukrainian illustrator and tattoo artist Rita Zolotukhina creates “botanical fingerprints”, using actual plants for designs. To create the tattoos, she dips the plants in ink, then presses them on the customer’s body, basing the tattoo on this imprint – much like a stencil. “We don’t […]
Each team is defending one hemisphere!
An investigation undertaken by the Huffington Post and Fairfax Media has revealed that billions of dollars of government contracts were awarded as the direct result of bribes. The company names which pop up on this list include British icon Rolls-Royce, US oil-service company Halliburton, Australia’s Leighton Holdings and Korean heavyweights Samsung and Hyundai. The bribe factory If […]
The town of Albertville in southeastern France has begun using cheese to generate electricity. Their power plant, build in the Savoie region, uses the byproduct of the local Beaufort cheeses as the base for its biogas power generation system.
A wind or Aeolian harp is exactly what the name implies: the only musical instrument played by the wind.
Wind gusts are so unforgiving that the trees themselves molded into weird and crooked shapes. There's an almost surreal beauty to their shape, though -- it brings harshness to life. You won't find anything like it anywhere else in the world.
When Fukushima’s nuclear accident unfolded, people fled the area without looking back. But one man realized that humans aren’t the only victims of the tragedy. Naoto Matsumura went back to Fukushima’s 12.5-mile exclusion zone to care for the abandoned animals. In 2011, one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history struck Japan. The 9.1 temblor took even […]
Antibiotics have potentially saved more lives than any other human invention. But bugs are catching on...
Look at this photo. What do you see? A bunch of camels, right? Well, that's right... but look closer - where are the camels?
Before digital or overhead projectors were invented, for hundreds of years people enjoyed projecting large scale images on their walls using a fantastic invention called the magic lantern.
82 artists joined hands to create 600 artworks - modified ads placed around Pars to protest greenwashing done by the corporations involved in the climate summit.
A team from ZME Science will attend the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP21. Here’s the official page of the event, the Wikipedia page, and the official Twitter (in French). What does this mean? We’ll be attending as many sessions as possible, to give you the latest updates on this potentially historic event. We’ll […]
Or when your experiment's results are 'almost' there.
An illustrated series showcasing artworks that raise awareness on environmental issues.
NASA recently celebrated 15 years of continuous habitation on the International Space Station. During this time, the ISS and other satellites brought us an inestimable trove of information, pushing forth our understanding of the planet by a wide margin. Let’s have a look at some of these accomplishments. Detecting the ozone hole Monitoring the ozone hole […]
Earth’s gravity pull is opening cracks and faults on the Moon Article Featured Researcher: Thomas Watters Affiliation: Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Research Interests: Dr. Watters’ research interests are in planetary tectonics, planetary geology and geophysics, and remote sensing. His research involves the identification and characterization of tectonic landforms and the development of kinematic and mechanical […]
It’s been a while, but we’re back with one of our favorite features – This Week in Science! If you’ve not been here for the previous editions, we’ll discuss not only the most interesting studies of the past week, but also the people behind them – the men and women pushing forth the boundaries of […]
Did you know that vaccines are dangerous? Or that eating whole lemons (or eggs) prevents cancer? Or that evil doctors kill people to treat them for depression, or that science in general is just bogus studies and money? Those are just some of the headlines you can find on what I believe to be one of the biggest sources […]
A stray dog followed a Swedish racing team through 430 miles (688 km) of jungles and rivers just because one of the team members gave him a meatball during one of the early halts. A small good deed can have huge effects – this was proven by an extreme racing team and a stray dog. […]
Robbie Shone is one of the most talented and hard working cave photographers in the world. Over the past ten years, Robbie’s passion has taken him to China, Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Uzbekistan, Sudan, the Picos, the Alps and Crete. He has also worked closely with scouting groups in California, and documented scientists in Portugal, Switzerland […]
