Scientists have shown that trauma can leave epigenetic marks - chemical changes that affect how DNA is expressed without altering its...

It's a truly terrifying story, and a truly terrifying disease. The flesh-eating culprit in question is called GAS, or Group A...

NASA will host a news teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, April 17, to announce a new...

Oligarchy vs Democracy Not so funny when it's real - America is controlled by a small elite, Princeton study shows....

Three French students transformed a 3-D printer — a MarkerBot Replicator 3D printer, to be exact, into a tattoo machine!...

A few months ago we were telling you about the researchers from Transylvania, Romania, who developed artificial blood. Now, the production...

I feel like a broken record - graphene is awesome at this, graphene is awesome at that... graphene is just...

It's something that puzzled me for years now: consider a pair of identical twins; say, one gets a job as an...

They not only look awesome, but they may actually save a lot of power. Light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings have replaced streetlights...

I don't really use Bing all that often, but I think that they do some things significantly better than the...

Last week we described a study which concluded that homeopathy is nothing more than a placebo effect -- it was just...

If you've ever looked at a pond and thought "Well, not much really going on here", you couldn't have been...

Many parasites affect their hosts' behavior, up to the point where the host can sacrifice itself for the wellbeing of...

Rhinopithecus strykeri, also known as the Myanmar Snub-Nosed Monkey or Sneezing Monkey was discovered just a few years ago, in...

Homeopathy is bust, it doesn't really do anything, it's just a make-believe treatment. Why do I have to write another...

While documenting leopard seals in Antarctica for a 2006 National Geographic magazine story, photographer Paul Nicklen had a truly fantastic...

The future is here. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as...

Video games have been getting more and more attention, partly due the fact that more and more children (and adults)...

It seems like ever since the first caveman opened up the first popup barter-based kiosk people have been trying to...

Although things are starting to change, video games still get a ton of bad rep - and for good reason,...

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen - a famous Norwegian explorer, the first man to ever reach the South Pole. He used...

In the small town of Watford City, North Dakota (population 1,744), the local pharmacy has a cure for kids that...

As part of a German-French research project, a team led by  Dr. Christa E. Müller from the University of Bonn...

The average grown man has about 5 liters of blood - and you need most of it to survive. That's...

The scientists from the Australian Meteorology Bureau estimate that there's a good chance that El Nino will form in the...

A team of researchers from the Colorado University has found that the tendency to procrastinate is also influenced by genetic...

It's 1960, a nice Sunday, Easter day. David Latimer decides to do something special to mark this day, and he...

Scientists have been analyzing high-energy gamma rays originating from the center of our galaxy and they've reported that there's a...

Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves, use regional foods to create physical maps of countries and continents around the world. This...

It's one of the more... delicate issues of science and anatomy, and amidst lots of contradicting personal testimonies and surprisingly...

Talk about dedication to science! Michael Smith, a graduate student at Cornell University mapped which parts of the body are...

La Trobe University research has revealed a tobacco plant’s natural defense mechanisms could be harnessed to kill cancer cells in...

Earth is not the only place in the solar system to hold watery oceans: Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons also...

Anders Helstrup and several other members of Oslo Parachute Club were expecting a good time, and no major events when...

The characteristic "chirp" a cricket makes is created when the insects rub their legs, in an attempt to draw the...

The origin and evolutionary history of modern lions has been revealed through genetic analysis. This recent study suggests that the...

Throughout history, Chinese culture has rivaled and many times surpassed other, more famous empires -- but many of their achievements...

Materialistic people are more likely to be depressed and unsatisfied, partly because they are not grateful enough for the things...

As if SeaWorld didn't have enough press with the shocking Blackfish documentary, a document released by Buzzfeed reveals that the...

I've been covering more artistic topics lately, but I feel that every once in a while, it's a good break...

An 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the coast of Chile last night, triggering multiple strong aftershocks and a 6-foot (3 meter)...

Her short career was absolutely remarkable - before she was 20, Haruko Obokata was accepted into the science department at...

Image Credits. Everybody knows (or at least should know) that eating fruits and vegetables is good for you; however, most...

As we were telling you a while ago, the Kepler telescope found several potentially life-supporting planets, including a couple of...

It has to be the most uninteresting year in science - in the 3 months that have passed, absolutely nothing...

How important are details, when it comes to saving money? Any accountant will tell you: really important. A middle school...

In what may be a  historic decision, the UN's top court has ordered Japan to stop its annual whale hunt...

As incredible as it may sound, scientists have successfully reversed the aging process in mice, according to a new study...

Seismologists working at the University of Utah reported an earthquake occurring at 06:34 AM on March 30, 2014 (MDT). The...

New Caledonian crows understand ow to displace water to receive a reward, with the causal understanding level of a 5-7...