Researchers find marijuana spreads and prolongs pain
We've all endured some kind of physical pain, more or less intense. When you hit your finger while hammering, for...
Dr. Andrei Mihai is a geophysicist and founder of ZME Science. He has a Ph.D. in geophysics and archaeology and has completed courses from prestigious universities (with programs ranging from climate and astronomy to chemistry and geology). He is passionate about making research more accessible to everyone and communicating news and features to a broad audience.
We've all endured some kind of physical pain, more or less intense. When you hit your finger while hammering, for...
The paradox of water is that everybody knows it, but no one really understands it. It's the most fascinating substance...
The Maelstrom Small maelstrom. Photo by Shutnic. When you hear a name like maelstrom, you just know it's about something...
Well, it seems all we've been writing about lately is sex and jelly fish (there's a connection somewhere, I just...
So, microorganisms and other humans aside, what do you think is the deadliest creature in animal kingdom? A snake, perhaps...
This is a wicked one for sure! Basically, nobody really knows what's going on there, except for the fact that...
Researchers from Arizona State University and Princeton University conducted a study that goes to show that our 'multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using,...
First of all, I don't know for sure if any of these are shopped or tampered in any way; underwater...
The surface waves. Not the Love wave you want to be in.Researchers from the University of Liverpool conducted a study...
Turns out, heroin was much easier to get a few decades ago.
Ladies and gents (really, stay away from this one kids; trust me, save whatever is left of your innocence), I've...
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, with it's dazzling 70% unemployment rate and more than 3 quarters...
Physiologically speaking, Brooke Greenberg is an infant with the mind of toddler. Only thing is that she turned 16 just...
Virginia Commonwealth University managed to discover what they have called a 'magnetic superatom', a stable cluster of atoms that can...
The swine influenza is now, officially, the 4th flu pandemic in the last 100 years. Margaret Chan, the director-general of...
A new bacteria that has been named Herminiimonas glaciei, found in the heart of Greenland, trapped under more than 3...
A previously unknown volcanic eruption was uncovered by scientists at the University of Leeds. It's believed that this massive eruption...
Music has traditionally been something scientists have found hard to characterize - it is basically a form of social communication...
Every year, the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists announce the...
A while ago I wrote a post about what I believe the most spectacular waterfalls in the world are, but...
Even among some scientific circles, Neanderthals are considered to be the 'stupid' cousins of the modern humans (although some claim...
As an old saying goes, time spent wishing is time wasted. I'm guessing day dreaming goes into the same category,...
If I were to guess, I'd say each and every one of us suffered at least an ankle sprain and...
In late 2019, weird reports of a virus started emerging from a city most people have never even heard of...
The researchers who have just returned from the underwater volcano eruption report that the volcano is still active and it...
Despite the fact that some researchers claim the swine flu is already declining, we are still on the verge of...
The mass extinction theory is... a theory, because there are still some blanks left in to fill by scientists; of...
ESO's Very Large Telescope has shown something that scientists concluded is the signature of the explosion of the object furthest...
For some reason, many people believed the current flu vaccine will be effective against this swine flu that's already expanding...
There has been a lot of debate around the whole 'hobbit issue' and I've been watching that pretty closely. It...
Because of insufficient time and man power (if you want to help, just look at the banner in the right),...
Photo by Mark W. Moffet Seeing all the available houses in the neighborhood and then choosing is not necessarily the...
It seems you can blame everything on drugs, as researchers show that the human brain manufactures proteins that act on...
Get your 3D pictures on and join the show; hundreds of amazing pictures made by the HiRISE camera on NASA's...
Earth Hour is an initiative started by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund) that asks people everywhere...
The war on cancer is more intense than ever, and it's taking place on many, many fronts. We've seen the...
Even though we claim to be living in the third millenium and we've "evolved" significantly from say, 50 years ago,...
This my friends is one of those things that just makes your skin tingle in a very pleasant way. Italian...
When Oscar was diagnosed with a very aggresive form of cancer called anal sac adenocarcinoma, his days seemed numbered -...
Some of these are truly puzzling, some are shrouded in conspiracy theories.
Scientists that analyzed meteorite dust made some discoveries that gave them clues about the ever standing mystery of how life...
Well, that's a bit of a stretch, but according to scientists, this giant fossil sea creature known currently just as...
About 20 years ago, on March 13, 1989, the whole province of Quebec, Canada, suffered a blackout that by now...
As you probably know (but may very well choose to ignore), ageism is going rampant throughout virtually every civilized country...
Whether it's due to novels and movies or some morbid fascination, more and more people seem to be fascinated about...
This is what researchers believe to be the first true comeback of a gene in the human/great ape lineage; the...
The guys over at WHOI are doing more and more interesting things every day; just a few days ago I...
It seems science and creationism are just taking sides and throwing rocks at each other; recently, they've taken things to...
Despite whatever you may hear, it's obvious that we still don't have a clear understanding of the impact we're having...
Lava, the molten rock that flows from inside the Earth, can destroy everything in its path. Water, meanwhile is like...