We're still uncovering the secrets of the building blocks of life.

Things are looking bad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

They're using the people we like to sell us things that aren't good for us.

China is drastically accelerating its efforts to build a deep-sea research platform - but they aren't doing it for the...

It's one of the strangest experiment ever devised, and it may very well revolutionize science.

A 25-year-old from the US has been living without a heart for more than a year.

Wearable tech could save the hearing of thousands of soldiers.

With a potential ZIka pandemic luring over the Americas, one Long Island town is stepping up to bat.

It's just the early stages, but there's a glimmer of hope.

Our brain may be downplaying other people to save your relationship.

There's just not enough fiber in our diets.

We may actually get to see a black hole!

This is the Apollo Guidance Computer's read-only rope memory. That's right -- memory literally made from hand-woven rope. Depending on...

There's no need to panic though.

Norway wants to make all cars electric in the next decade.

It's way older than divers thought.

Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is...

Yes, it's actually happening.

The rich really do get richer - a new study found that the richest families in Florence, Italy, have had...

While robotics and AI research is taking massive strides forward, our social development hasn't really kept up with them.

Borders often highlight the relationship and differences between different countries, and here are some of the most spectacular and revealing...

Few things in life can claim to be truly breathtaking, and even fewer of those things are man-made. But this...

Scientists have confirmed that the pharaoh's dagger is indeed not from this Earth - the blade is the "iron of...

The good news is that it's easy to turn this off.

A Canadian think tank found that Canada's status as a 'world superpower' is threatened because the world is shifting away...

Researchers at Southampton University in the UK have developed a technique which allows them to store 360 TB of data...

Several tablets from the Roman Age have been uncovered and analyzed following excavation in London, including the oldest hand-written document...

Researchers are now one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, thanks to the mantis shrimp - a marine...

Australia's government wants to stick its head in the sand and simply ignore reality instead of making actual efforts to...

#cabshots are taking over the internet

The Nature Index highlights scientific outputs from countries, organizations, and even individual researchers.

Some things on the internet are just mind-bending, and this is definitely one of them.

It's high time something like this happened.

Dandruff is the most common scalp condition, yet we know surprisingly little about it.

Natural history and in general, all natural sciences, are falling out of favor in school curriculums

Fulfilling the job that scientists and unlucky undergrads have been doing for years, the kinetic machine Jller selects and sorts pebbles found...

Greek archaeologists may have located the tomb of Aristotle, one of the most important philosophers and scientists of the Antiquity.

This extraordinary bus concept has been all over the internet, promising to revolutionize public transportation, making it more efficient and...

The team has pushed sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 34.5% – establishing a new world record for unfocused sunlight.

The footwear giant has announced it will move much of its activities from Asia back to Germany. The company unveiled...

Deep inside the Bruniquel Cave in France, a set of man-made structures 336 meters from the entrance lie as evidence to the...

A research team discovered two geologically young craters — one 16 million, the other between 75 and 420 million, years...

A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics just beat the previous record by a...

Canadian aboriginals have been using clay to treat their ailments for centuries.

National Geographic's Travel Photographer of the Year is nearing its conclusion, where the winners will be crowned. It's not easy to...

Called ReGen Villages, the project imagines a community of buildings that produce all their own food and energy, while being...

For the first time in history, scientists have cut out HIV genes from live animals.

In the early 1900s, cigarettes were living their golden years - something which millions of lungs regretted. But you can't...

If you like lions, or watching nature documentaries, the odds are you've heard of George Adamson. Nicknamed "Baba ya Simba"...

If I asked you to guess where we have the best chances of finding life outside of Earth, you'd be...