Most medical research looking to identify the mechanisms of a disease or test treatments rely on animal models. While very...

Scientists have discovered an atypical gene that is thought to be crucial for the generation of new neurons in the...

In a mind-boggling and, frankly, a bit frightening breakthrough, researchers at University of Washington have devised a brain-to-brain interface that for...

Theoretical Physicists John Preskill and Spiros Michalakis  sat down for a short talk in which they describe how quantum computing...

Crows, like most other species from the corvid family (ravens, rooks, etc.), are some of the most intelligent animals on the...

For nearly two years now, Syria has been embroiled in a gruesome civil war that has so far claimed thousands...

Farmers, with the help of researchers in the field, have been desperately trying to develop new insecticides that can ward...

It's clear that humans are now, more than ever, a driving force in evolutionary biology. Early domestication efforts through breeding...

Our farthest scout in the Universe, the Voyager-1 probe, has traveled some 18.7 billion kilometers so far and it doesn't...

Graphene is a perfect 2D crystal of covalently bonded carbon atoms and forms the basis of all graphitic structures. (c)...

When the space shuttle was first designed, its makers intended on building the very first partially reusable craft capable of...

Researchers  at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) Department of Neuroscience analyzed a massive survey of 130,000 randomly chosen...

An aerial view of the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador's northeastern jungle. Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP Yasuni National Park to be...

Our bodies are hosts to some hundreds of thousands of bacteria that live in harmony with each other, helping the...

(c) BBC America's longest war (or second-longest for sure) in history is expected to end in 2014 once with the...

(C) Noyle Indonesia's Java is one of the world's top surfing destinations, as well as a marvelous casual vacation spot, famed...

At the heart of virtually every large galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole with a mass of a million to...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is an established neurosurgeon, but you all might know him better as CNN's chief medical correspondent through the...

After years of planning and hard work, the Gemini Observatory team recently unveiled some of the work they performed using...

For many quantum mechanics is very hard to comprehend because so many of its insights are extremely bizarre (see spooky...

A prototype of the leaf-inspired solar cell. Right corner: 1cm scale bar. As solar cells, and obviously the solar energy...

The Argus II is the first bionic eye implant, designed to grant the blind vision, that has been approved by...

A few years ago ZME Science reported how a group of researchers at University of Maastricht in Holland were on a mission...

Temperature is an important physical parameter which greatly influences a system. Monitoring and/or manipulating this state parameter with great accuracy...

The ramifications of climate change are long and vast, but with all this talk and attention the subject's been gaining...

Your first impression after seeing one or more of the photos featured in this piece might be that these are...

The waves of controversy and outrage following former CIA and NSA technical officer Edward Snowden's leaks of details that reveal the...

We've all come to love and cherish the visionary images of astronauts out in space in their spacesuits. There's something...

This isn't a cyborg gold fish from a borg's aquarium, this little amazing fellow is called Einstein. He unfortunately ended...

A new study performed by scientists in China has further elevated stem cell research after they successfully grew teeth-like structures...

This image, captured off the coast of Australia, shows a brave/stupid marine biologist who managed to touch a great white...

Weighing in at 33 pounds (15kgs), this huge honey mushroom was recently discovered by locals in China's Yunnan Province. Specialists...

According to a recently published in the journal PNAS, some 1,700 cities in the United States coastal areas are under...

The first use of the umbrella, albeit in a more primitive form, can be traced back to ancient times. In...

It's no easy task for any psychologist to bear the news to a parent that his child is suffering from...

This is quite possibly the woolliest sheep in history, Shrek the sheep. He was found in this condition in 2004,...

There are more people in the world than at any point in history, and the advent of technology has brought...

Scientists at the University of Darmstadt, Germany have set a new record after they devised an experimental set-up that allowed...

These two images show a section of the sun as seen by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, on...

The United States is a country renowned for its history of technological innovation and stewardship. Some of the world's greatest...

The prisoner's dilemma is one of the most famous paradigms and at the same time one of the most discussed...

(c) NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE That faint blue dot at the center of this beautiful composition is none other than our...

(c) PETE RICHES/DEMOTIX/CORBIS Biotech giant, Monsanto, has been met with a wave of furious protests during the past year in...

Researchers use a special tool called a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into tiny...

Society today is becoming ever stressed out it seems. According to a recent American Psychological Association poll, nearly a quarter of...

Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos inside the Bioenergy laboratory at the BRL, holding a phone powered by a microbial fuel cell stack....

Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars, and in the solar system for...

This laser microscopy image shows iPSC-generated endovascular cells in green, connective tissue cells in blue, and red blood cells in...

The current accepted cosmological model of the formation of the Universe states that it is expanding ever since the Big...

Every little thing we hold for granted here on familiar ground and gravity is different in space. Take washing your...