For the first time, Japanese researchers have successfully grown a pair of kidneys in a lab and then transplanted them...

Scientists working at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have created a very specific type of material from over 1 billion...

A group of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has managed to successfully transfer information...

For the first time, National Geographic magazine is inviting its readers to submit their photos on the Your Shot section and decide...

Trilobites were some of the most dominant creatures on the face of the planet, thriving from the mid Cambrian 521...

Drones are often feared as instruments of destruction, and as John Oliver pointed out, in some parts of the world,...

Researchers from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) have developed a computer software that...

The Øresund bridge is a wonder of engineering, and one of the coolest engineering accomplishments on the planet.

Middle Age Europe was a place ruled by superstition and mythical beliefs - at least some parts of it were....

About 260 million years ago, this pre-reptile might not have looked like much. With its knobby face and about as...

The tallest structure ever built by mankind on Earth is actually an oil rig - Troll A.

The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has finalized a transition date from Frequency Modulation (FM) radio to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)...

Fourteen years ago, a leading drug maker conducted a study which concluded that Paxil, an antidepressant, was effective and safe...

The world is at an extremely dangerous crossroads: if we keep using non-renewable hydrocarbons and coal the way we have,...

It's the science that makes you laugh, and then makes you think. It's a tradition not nearly as established as...

The Arctic is overrun with giant mosquitoes: larger, furrier versions of the mosquitoes we all know and hate. As temperatures...

Regular soap is really good at killing bacteria, but most people feel that antibacterial soaps are even better. After all,...

A research team has demonstrated the effectiveness of a 3-antibiotic cocktail that kills methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in all...

Scientists have discovered the longest chain of continental volcanoes in the world, stretching almost 2000 km (1200 miles) on Australia's...

An experiment has found that domestic dogs have lost some of their problem solving abilities, and wolves currently do a...

A massive 8.3 magnitude Earthquake struck the northern coast of Chile on Wednesday night, killing at least five people and...

As a new investigation showed today, the scientists of the biggest oil company in the world, Exxon Mobil knew about...

According to a new report by the WWF, we're very close to losing fish species that are not only important...

Scientists have genetically modified yeast to produce the main psychoactive substance in marijuana, THC. Responsible for most of weed's effects...

Researchers at Purdue University in the US have developed a new tool for Android users that could increase your battery...

A 28-year old who has been paralyzed for more than a decade following a spinal cord injury has become the first person...

Leafcutter ants in South America grow fungus as crops, this has been known for quite a while. But their crops...

They say that if you want to conquer a woman's heart, you first have to make her laugh, and the...

An English historian has come across the "F word" in a court case dating back to 1310, making it the...

According to a new study published in Nature Climate Change, the snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains has reached the...

Temari (手まり?) balls are an ancient form of art that originated in China and got was introduced to Japan around...

The world is heating up, that's no longer up for debate, but there are many ways through which we can...

Motivated by the love for their native lands and armed with bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous...

The gargantuan cluster is 9.8 billion light years away from us, houses at least 27 galaxies and has a combined...

The Antarctic Ocean has been sucking more and more carbon dioxide - and this is both good news and bad...

German researchers from the University of Tubingen have devised an algorithm that analyzes a painting and then applies that style of...

Three different ways to breathe: Mammals, birds and insects breathe in different ways, as exemplified above. Humans, as mammals, inhale...

Almost 30 delegates were rushed to a hospital in Germany, suffering from hallucinations and cramps. The "alternative medicine conference" went...

A new study shows that evolution's burden is distinctly visible on our shoulders - literally. Our shoulders are surprisingly similar...

Today's Spain was close to Greenland, Tibet and Australia were neighbors, and Africa and South America were closely hugging -...

We all have a hobby. Reddit user's -rico hobby is collecting factory GIFs. You know, the 'How it's Made' kind of GIFs,...

It's one of those things that sounds almost too surreal to be true: for more than a decade, a broken...

Lawmakers from the state of California have passed a law banning the sale of all ivory and rhinoceros horn products in...

When life gives you wara (rice straw), make... wara dinosaurs!

We see this too often - loads and loads of discarded books in storage rooms, on the sidewalk, even in...

Image via Wikipedia. These brownish hills are actually limestone mounds in Bohol province in the Philippines. They are normally covered by...

Recently, we wrote an article about the biggest tree census ever conducted, and the results were pretty grim. Sure, there...

There are so many scientific journals out there, it's almost impossible for a newcomer to draw attention; but this one...

An intriguing signal reported at the LHC might signal some "cracks" in the Standard Model - the theory which describes...

Calm and calculated - a chimp at a Dutch zoo took down a drone, squashing it with a tree branch....