One of the most fundamental question evolutionary biologists are trying to answer is how did multicellular life evolve from single celled...

Following the genome sequence of the oldest modern human remains outside of Africa using the most refined DNA analysis to...

After exactly 674 days in orbit, the Air Force's top secret spaceplane landed in California on Friday. There's very little anyone...

In Lewis Caroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), the sequel to the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,...

When people think of sharks, the most immediate response might be jaws, fright or blood, but if you're willing to...

Image: Washington Post Despite an incredible body of work dedicated to researching what goes inside the brain while we sleep,...

This plant may look like an ordinary tobacco plant, but on the inside it was engineered to express bacteria proteins...

Image: wikispaces.com We often report how many species around the world are becoming extinct, but it's heart warming to report...

How bad is California's drought? Just look above. Photo: Wiki California is facing one of its direst drought streaks, and...

A mosaic of more than 3,150 high-resolution satellite images creates the best continent-wide view since 1997. The result is the...

The shutdown of a key protein allows grizzly bears to go through tremendous weight gains without loosing insulin sensitivity. Thus...

While scientists have been studying and incrementally increasing solar cell efficiency, we've yet to reach nature's magnitude of solar energy...

Lithium-ion batteries are the most used rechargeable batteries in the world. If you've owned a smartphone or laptop for more...

Better, far more responsive touchscreen displays might be developed as a result of these findings. Photo:easy-it.ro Materials found in nature...

Drug and alcohol addiction affects millions of people around the world, but despite decades worth of research and billions of...

Photo: Igor Mojzes - Fotolia.com A common stereotype is that people who wear glasses are labeled as nerds, but sooner...

Einstein's theories suggest that light can not travel faster than c, a constant equal to the speed of light in...

Researchers at  Charles Sturt University in New South Wales found a connection between excessive sharing of information on facebook and feeling lonely...

SETI's Alien Telescope Array (ATA) listens day and night for a signal from space (SETI) This past week, a few...

The ICFO lab-on-a-chip (credit: ICFO) Most cancer diagnosis tools and procedures today involve detecting the disease on the microscopic level....

This is one of those science stories where it gives to show that even scientists can be biased and, most...

Photo: Dong Energy "We can't give up oil and coal because it will ruin our economy." This is an argument...

It's official - graphene is the wonder material of the millennium. A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute...

Various measurements have captured the West Antarctic ice sheet changing very rapidly in the region where it flows into the...

Photo: LHC @ CERN The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the most complex machinery devised...

Image: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology & Sungkyunkwan Universit We've written extensively about graphene here on ZME Science, awarding it...

One of the biggest mysteries in solar physics is how is it possible that the sun's surface is colder than...

Physicists at Max Planck Institute and Aarhus in Denmark have slowed down the rotational temperature of molecular ions to its...

photo: vimeo.com After growing up to adulthood blinded from birth, a man now has taken a peculiar hobby: photography. Were...

Photo: telegraph.co.uk It's been well established that smoking substantially affects health for more than a century (a bit less than...

D-wave officials alongside one of their computers. Photo: Steve Jurvetson A lot of hype has been going D-Wave's way in...

Photo:Johan Wingborg/AP Doctors from Sweden recently revealed they have successfully completed a total of nine womb transplants, marking a new...

Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster. Photo: : NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team. Huge...

Photo courtesy nap.edu A recent study from  the Norwegian University of Science and Technology aims to overthrow the long standing assumption...

The WiTrack system provides significantly increased accuracy in tracking a person’s movement, and can even detect motion through walls and...

We've written extensively about the impending global disaster triggered by the crippling of bee populations worldwide at the hand of Colony...

Your gut is home to some 100 trillion bacteria - more than the entire number of cells in the whole...

The last bucardo living specimen, Celia, died in 2000. She can now be seen at the reception centre of the...

An estimate 20% of Americans use some of form of psychotropic medication, amounting to a $34 billion industry. Desperate to...

This five-cell metamaterial converts stray microwave energy, as from a WiFi hub, into more than 7 volts of electricity with...

At the beginning of the year the most powerful meteoroid strike since the infamous Tunguska event took place in Russia,...

On ZME Science we've showcased on more than one occasion the wonders of 3-D printing, and how this remarkable piece...

The herbal supplement market is big business, about $5 billion worth if we're to look at figures. Unlike medicine products...

Illustration of a cougar-like nimravid. (c) thorthebarbarian.com Looking close at suspicious marks and cuts present in the skulls of saber-tooth...

(c) UC San Diego Language and Development Lab A new study made by a team of international scientists found that...

Millions of years ago, the wild savannas of Africa were teeming with carnivore wildlife, much more diverse than what we...

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that a chemical compound derived  from cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli has...

Alejandro Arteaga / Tropical Herping A rare sight to behold, the elusive Pinocchio lizard was finally spotted after a team...

Einstein's brain was preserved after his death in 1955, but this fact was not revealed until 1986. Mere hours after...

Manu Sharma is an aerospace engineer with a great vision: he wants high-school kids and college students to have the...