Paris authorities have put in place 24-hour emergency measures to limit the number of cars in traffic as part of...

Mustafah Abdulaziz (USA), First prize winner   Syngenta Photography Award aims to draw attention on pressing social and environmental issues,...

For her MA degree project at the University of West Hungary, Budapest-based graphic designer Barbara Bernát came up with these beautiful...

This is it - the pinnacle of technological development, the result of countless research hours; yes, it's a tree.

It's about as unusual and heartwarming as it gets - Jia Haixia is completely blind and his best friend, Jia...

Physics on your feet is basically a collection of physics problems (with solutions at the end), presented in an illustrated...

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When James Lovelock came up with the Gaia hypothesis, today also commonly referred to as Gaia theory, he likely didn't...

Designer Thomas Heatherwick just completed construction on a cluster of 12 parsnip tornado-shaped towers for the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The building,...

Some 17 million years ago, a beaked whale took a wrong turn up an African river, something which ultimately proved...

A rather surprising study found that graphene's imperfections can actually be used to improve fuel cell efficiency. Researchers from Northwestern...

In 2005 Chris ‘Brolga’ Barns set up a baby kangaroo rescue centre in central Australia’s Alice Springs. The main goal...

According to Danish and Australian researchers, there are billions of the stars in the Milky Way located in the "habitable...

Leading climate change denier U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has had enough of NASA studying our planet: he wants NASA...

A year ago, Oxford University professor of human genetics Bryan Sykes and his colleagues took some unusual hair samples found...

Researchers from NASA, Imperial College in London and Texas University have discovered two seafloor troughs that allow warm ocean water...

Researchers at Brown University have found a cheaper and easier way to create hybrid perovskites, enabling engineers to develop more...

As we go around our daily lives with wireless internet and satellite smartphones, it's easy to forget that at the...

I've had this book on my desk for longer than I'd care to admit... but not because I didn't want...

There are still many things we have yet to discover about plants, a new study has highlighted. The research team...

When the University of Amsterdam decided to close down several language studies, students reacted; but they didn't protest or used...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Obama administration and California lawmakers have announced a doubling of the size of the Cordell...

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has lost years of development progress following the devastating effects of Cyclone Pam. Widely...

The Moon's geologic past was much more interesting and active than previously thought, results from the Chinese lunar rover indicate....

It's awesome when engineers can take inspiration from nature and design something truly spectacular - now, a Berkeley team has...

For centuries, arsenic was the go-to poison in the high circles of Europe, either to knock out political foes or...

Deep inside the Earth, in the gigantic Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam, there lies a completely unique and mostly unknown...

Watch the video all to the end - it starts off a bit slow, but it gets pretty rad towards...

If you've ever visited the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, then you've likely had a surprise. The cold, frigid white...

Extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got a lot more likely: NASA has found convincing evidence that Ganymede and...

It is generally accepted that our galaxy has a diameter of nearly 100,000 light-years. However, findings of a new research, published...

Recent archaeological and anthropological research showed that Neanderthals weren't the mindless brutes we once thought they were - they were...

As more and more researchers are starting to highlight the potential benefits of Psychedelic substances, one recent Norwegian campaign is aiming...

An eruption from an underwater volcano in the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' caused a 1-km wide island to form.

It may be the dawn of a new age for particle physics - scientists and engineers are working together to...

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Scientists in Australia have developed a groundbreaking bionic heart that works without having a pulse. The device, which was successfully...

The cockroach - one of the nature's great survivors, hated by building residents throughout the entire world, just got more...

At the core of a newly found dwarf galaxy, astronomers discovered a mysterious source of gamma rays that may signal...

A few days ago, we wrote an article about our featured researchers - outstanding men and women in their field,...

Exoplanet GJ581d is the first potentially habitable world astronomers have discovered, but some astronomers believed that the planet wasn't actually...

A study conducted on 2000 year old tooth enamel found that ancient farmers traveled to the grassy plains southern Africa...

Neil deGrasse Tyson, the internet's favorite astrophysicist doesn't have high hopes for Mars One - the private enterprise that plans...

The Catalina Fox simply can't catch a break - it went from endangered, to doing so well that local residents...

In 2002, Jason Padgett was brutally attacked outside a karaoke bar, getting a brain concussion and a severe case of...

This eagle at Codorus State Park in Pennsylvania has had it up to his neck with snow - both parents, mother...

All image credits: Tom Beddard. Whether we see them in math or in real life biology (or architecture, or art),...

Archaeologists working in Oregon have uncovered a stone tool which seems to be way older than any previously documented site...

Dental health is still a generally neglected issue throughout the world - most people just delay their dental problem or...