British researchers from the University of Newcastle have discovered by mistake (how else?) that a species of sea urchin has...

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Iapetus is the third largest moon of Saturn, with a radius of about 42% that of our moon, and a...

The (still debated) asteroid that slammed into the Earth 65 million years ago and played a crucial role in wiping...

The remains of the legendary Richard III have been found beneath a Leicester car park - where else? DNA, carbon...

After the successful test in which the Iranians sent a monkey into outer space and back safely, their goal of...

The Uroburos is a mythological symbol representing a serpent or dragon eating its own tail - a symbol of cyclicality...

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Water and energy are two of the things we pretty much take for granted - but we shouldn't. Water is...

  Dean Keith Simonton, a psychology professor at the University of California, has published a comment piece in the journal...

Ridges of Martian impact craters could be fossils of cracks in the Martian surface, formed by minerals deposited by flowing...

They say that the bully is actually the victim - and studies on adolescent rats seem to support this idea;...

Birds may not be the smartest bunch out there, but man do they know how to navigate! Pigeons can get...

In case you didn't know, China has a massive problem with smog; the dark shroud has covered a large part...

If you think intestinal parasites are a recent problem, you'd better think again. Ancient tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old shark...

As our search for alien planets improves and intensifies, astronomers are starting to pay more and more attention to one...

A facelift of the Colosseum brought to light centuries of markings and inscriptions on its walls, but archaeologists have little...

You've got me, I'm love watching anime. I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan or that I have enough time...

Close, but not too close - an asteroid like that can crash on our planet every 1200 years, but there's...

Usually, whenever celebrities advocate some cooky thing that supposedly does a whole lot of good, it's just a trend or...

Remember how a few days ago, the entire media and popullation of China was outraged by the smog covering a...

Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara has nerves (and other body parts) of steel! According to all reports, he broke his own...

We love cats so much, with their fluffy fur and cuddly personality, that we sometimes forget just how deadly of...

A former soldier who sadly became a quadruple amputee during his time in Iraq after an explosion three years ago...

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It's a well known fact that yoga does good to the mind and body, but the extent of that benefit...

Is someone chopping onions? Common dolphins have been seen to aid a dying companion, trying as hard as they could...

The American (NASA) and European (ESA) space agency have teamed up to create a new spacecraft that will hold a...

It's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, it's... microbes ?! High up in the atmosphere, 10.000 meters above ground,...

A historic expedition that took over 10 years of planning and 3 years of preparation, a national effort from both...

Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials in the world; it's about five times stronger than...

I recently came across a map of the population density done in 1918, and I'd really like to share it...

Astronomers are baffled by a pulsar heavier than the Sun and smaller than New York which alternatively switches on and...

Photo via Current Biology Dung beetles just climbed another ladder on the animal coolness scale - they are the only...

We've been getting lots and lots of questions regarding allergies, so here I will try to shed light on the...

I remember years ago, when I got my first computer - it had a storage capacity of 40 MB. A...

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How do you annihilate lymphoma cells without any chemotherapy or drugs at all? Simply by starving it of the thing...

The general classification splits volcanic eruptions in two: explosive or effusive. An explosive eruption is, well, explosive and violent (think...

Details of some 2000 volcanic eruptions that occurred in the past 1.8 million years are now available in a new...

Researchers from Leicester University have shown that auroras (similar to Earth's aurora borealis) occur on other bodies outside our solar...

I recently came across a great article discussing solar photovoltaic (PV) efficiency. You can read it in its entirety on...

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The cold, lifeless Vesta asteroid might be a lot more like our planet than astronomers believed - having a very...

Exobiologists have found what they believe to be the clearest evidence that Mars supported life - though it may not...

NASA announced in a recent statement that they have beamed an image of the legendary painting to the Lunar Reconaissance...

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