A massive 3,600-year-old palace was found near Sparta
Ongoing excavations at a site in the southern Peloponnese are offering rare insight into the ancient past of Laconia, about...
Bacterial infections turns amoebae into the world’s tiniest farmers
In 2011 the Queller-Strassmann lab, then at Rice University, made a surprising announcement in Nature Letters. They had been collecting...
Research moves closer to a universal flu vaccine
Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) have discovered a way...
Raise’em right! Only we’re not – modern parenting may hinder brain development
Several cultural beliefs and modern social practices may hinder children's mental, moral and emotional development, finds a study by an...
How humans turned “safari” to “safe” – what large mammals diversity worldwide would look without us
The fact that the greatest biodiversity of large mammals we know of today is recorded in Africa is a legacy...
Warp speed possible, predicted by the theory of relativity, astrophysics professor says
Hailing from the University of Sydney, professor Lewis is set to deliver a talk at the National Science Week in...
Ge-Force powered Augmented Reality Sandbox
Show of hands, who here doesn't sometimes long for the good old days when you would play in the sandbox...
New solar fuel generator makes hydrogen fuel out of water with unprecedented efficiency
Scientists working at Monash University in Melbourne have developed the most energy-efficient ‘artificial photosynthesis’ method to date. The process relies...
The UK plans to build the world’s largest wood-burning power plant
Investment in the renewable project is estimated to reach £650m ($1bn), which will be partly funded through aids from the...
Ecuador declares state of national emergency as Cotopaxi volcano wakes
A state of emergency has been declared this Saturday by Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa. The measure was taken as a...
Ever-growing population and climate instability will lead to severe food shortages by 2050
The food industry has become much more efficient in the last few decades as a result of globalization, but also...
Fighting with addiction? Play tetris, new study finds
The results of a new study show the benefits of playing tetris when fighting with an addiction or craving -...
We’ve gone into resource overdraft for the 45th year in a row
This is the day that humanity's consumption exceeds the amount of resources than our planet can supply in that year....
Robots learn to self-replicate and evolve
A robotics team lead by Cambridge University engineer Fumiya Iida have designed a robot that archeologists of the future (they...
MIT tackling more serious science: they program beer-delivering robots
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is on the brink of revolutionizing relaxation with their...
Drought and low aquifer levels made the Guadalupe river vanish
Vidal Mendoza, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician, has been spending his past Tuesday scanning the upper Guadalupe River, looking...
Copper clusters could revolutionize CO2 capture and turn it into fuel to boot
The chemical reactions used to make methanol from carbon dioxide rely on a catalyst to speed up the conversion, and...
Kickstarter project plans to put you virtually on the ISS
SpaceVR started a Kickstarter campaign today with the goal of sending a 3D, 360-degree camera to the ISS. This camera...
Advances in magnet technology could bring cheaper, modular fusion reactors from sci-fi to sci-reality in less than a decade
Advances in magnet technology have allowed MIT scientists to design a cheaper, more compact, modular and highly efficient fusion reactor...
Take out your phones: sexting could improve your relationship, study finds
Sexting has been taking a lot of flak recently, the debate focusing mostly on its negative aspects, such as the...
