Tag: Research

Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian ...

The first touchable scientific results of the Herschel infrared space observatory are spectacular indeed; not only is it showing previously ...

Using DNA preserved for 25.000 - 43.000 years in bones from Siberian mammoths, a team of international scientists recreated mammoth ...

Barack Obama came out and said that it should be possible for NASA to send astronauts to Mars and bring ...

Two studies put Einstein's theory, the General Theory of Relativity to a test unlike any other before. The two teams ...

The discovery of 9 new planets raises some serious questions on the matter of how planets are formed. Two astronomers ...

"It's a great day to be a particle physicist," said CERN director general Rolf Heuer. "A lot of people have ...

Take a really good look at this picture; you may just be looking at the very thing that will defeat ...

The Coma Galaxy, a galaxy directly involved in the so called dark flow Two years ago, researchers reported the strange ...

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is already in its 7th year on Mars, and over the years it provided some ...

According to a research conducted by researchers from the Cornell University the portions and the plates depicted in more than ...

At nearly 200 meters below the ice, there is no light, the temperature is way below 0 degrees, and scientists ...

Just like any muscle in your body, if not used, the brain starts to degrade as time passes; this has ...

Parts of the car's bodywork could double up as it's batter in a not so far away future; at least ...

There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some ...

A recent study published by Berkeley UC concluded that an hour nap boosts the brain's learning capacity and restores power, ...

Scarlett Johansson. Not related in anyway to the study... but a fine example. Well we all know the effect a ...

Whether intelligent life exists in our universe is a long debated problem. But for some scientists, there's something even more ...

Nobody wants to grow old, but at least at this point in our evolution, it's unavoidable. Growing old however, is ...

It's NASA's second launch in just 4 days (after Endeavour), and this time it's about the most advanced solar observatory ...

For years and years (good) doctors have warned about the dangers of taking antibiotics too lightly, which generally causes 'bugs' ...

Pluto is so upset that it's no longer a planet, that it's turning all red with anger ! No, seriously. ...

Yes ladies and gents, giant squids are all over the California beaches. Each of the squids weighs about 40 pounds, ...

The sun begins to ooze off outside of Birmingham, England. It's tea time. A woman stands alone in her house, ...

The G-Spot debate is probably never gonna end; and who can carry it out better than the English and the ...

Yesterday, Bill Gates officially announced he will donate 10 billlion dollars for a 10 year effort to boost vaccination against ...

Well you've probably all seen the Myth Busters. I've watched some episodes and loved most of them, so I'm hoping ...

A new research published in Nature Physics showed that there may be oceans of diamonds (literally) on both Uranus and ...

I was surprised to talk to a bunch of people today and find out they didn't know about this, so ...

There are weird lawsuits you can understand, and then there are just weird lawsuits. If you find this sort of ...

The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother ...

Well despite what many people might think, Hollywood isn't and never was the center of the world (hopefully, it won't ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) published some quite awesome pictures showing that Antarctica isn't the lifeless frozen wasteland most people ...

Where do birds go in the winter? That's a question many of us asked, as kids. Well puffins are currently ...

The US-Japan Sukazu observatory reported the finding of some never-before seen embers from the high temperature fireballs that immediately follower ...

Mankind is screwing up. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. Not taking care of our natural resources, polluting ...

I was writing a while ago that major biofuel production is not really that far away and the good news ...

Obesity is a problem that's taking bigger and bigger proportions (especially in the US), due mostly to fast food and ...

Researchers from Yale University succeeded in what seemed to be an impossible task: they've created a transistor from a single ...

Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, which are just bits of infectious ...

Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically ...

It's been a busy year indeed, especially with the LHC doing it's thing again, Hubble was repaired and there was ...

The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to ...

As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it's the ...

Since the Large Hadron Collider went back in business, all sort of rumors have been circling the scientific circles (and ...

Global warming is one of the main concerns on everybody's lips, causing more and more damage to the environment every year, ...

Blue whales are not only the biggest living creatures in the world right now, but the biggest ever to have ...

Nanotechnology is perhaps the field with the most spectacular development over the past years, but it can be really hard ...

Facebook has already caused a major revolution in the way people regard social interaction, but really not much has been ...

Ants are most amazing creatures, and there's so much we could learn from them I wouldn't even know where to ...