A rundown of the five tallest mountains in the world.

Photo by Stefan Everybody (or almost everybody) believes that no matter what, USA remains "polluter no. 1". Don't take my...

Photo by jago In a study conducted by researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University that claimed a different...

Two years ago, the Finnish Meteorological Institute made public the fact that they had created an electric solar wind sail....

University of Maryland researchers have managed to shed some light in an important matter which puzzled medical scientists and not...

Volcanic eruptions are impressive natural phenomena; it begins when pressure on a magma chamber forces magma up through the conduit...

Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 2.3-square-mile (6.0 km²) atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands...

    I'm not fond of alarmist theories or "bad things are happening, fast" attitude, but... bad things are just...

What makes us different is not who we are, not what we think, but the decisions we make. That defines...

More and more animals are becoming extinct each day, due to hunting, destruction of habitat, pollution, and so on. In...

Green fuels are a really hot topic, with every single day bringing a new (claimed) discovery or breakthrough, but many...

The Aztecs were the dominant civilization in Mexico for several hundred years, when their "reign" was stopped by the Spanish...

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a significant breakthrough in the development of biofuels ("green gasoline"), a liquid...

The first lungless frog has been discovered lurking in the jungles of Borneo. This amphibian is totally enigmatic, at least...

Recently, it seems there's a gene for everything, from generosity to ruthlesness. That still doesn't mean that you can blame...

NASA's space shuttle is set to take off on its last mission in 2010; the agency is really busy preparing...

It's said that even though computer have so much processing power, it some ways, it can never even get close...

The threat that global warming is has definetly been underestimated, and if something doesn't develop quite fast that could handle...

A University of Washington fish expert claims to have discovered a whole new species of fish, that would rather crawl...

  The hunt is on for finding other planets we can live on; this is probably the next step for...