Licking 9 volt batteries or tasering yourself with a fork stuck in a power plugs is apparently evidence enough to...

In January, 1997 Lottie Williams was strolling through a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her friends around 3:30 AM, when a...

Recent figures published in a report prepared by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency...

Scientists from the UK and Hungary have run various experiments to verify the claim of US researchers that a certain...

In 2008 a deadly earthquake hit the Sichuan province of China killing tens of thousands and living millions homeless -...

Scientists from the University of Washington have been struggling for the past decade to decipher the complex structure of an...

Common sense might tell you that only mammals are capable of lactating, it's a little know fact, however, that some...

A bridge or tunnel of some sorts which physically connects Asia with North America through the Bering Strait has been...

All you clinically diagnosed anxious readers might want to boot your therapist and settle for a cheaper, more comfortable alternative...

A remarkable discovery which turns once again turns fiction into reality, the Kepler spacecraft has found the first confirmed planet...

In the past decade global warming levels have remained stable, despite no significant improvements in green house emissions have been...

A team of neuroscientists from Stanford University have managed to create a remarkably tiny device capable of monitoring brain activity...

On July 29th the Cassini orbiter probe captured a stunning glimpse of five of Saturn's satellites beautifully aligned. Cassini has...

A team or Scottish scientists are pushing material science on the extreme side by conducting research which, they hope, will...

Artist impression of HD 85512b, a viable candidate for the first Earth-like planet to be discovered. (c) Kornmesser/Eso The HARPS...

Biomechanics has come a long way during the past few decades, on trend with the exponential growth of CPUs and...

Virgin Galactic, Virgin's commercial space flight branch, just recently announced that the first phase in the construction of the world's...

The arctic ice volume recorded last fall was the lowest ever since the first satellite reports were introduced, according to...

A team of researchers have shown in a recently released paper published in the journal Royal Society Biology Letters that...

Currently, only about 30% percent of the total scientific workforce is comprised of female scientists. Thousands of years of cultural...

Researchers from Princeton University recently published a study in which they show how they've been able to use functional magnetic...

IBM recently made public its intentions of developing what will be upon its completion the world's largest data array, consisting...

As space agencies around the world, predominantly NASA, are considering building outposts outside Earth for the most likely far distant...

Following the recent failed launch of an unmanned vehicle in a three stage Soyuz rocket this past Wednesday, the International...

The mating between Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens has been a highly controversial matter between scientists in the anthropology scene...

The oldest, up to now, fossil has been found recently by a team of Australian and UK geologists, who claim...

A small, yet frightening earthquake, registered at 5.9 magnitude, sent shivers down people's spines all the way from Ottawa, Canada...

It's generally known that people of above-average physical looks are at a greater social advantage than people of average or...

The United States and Gabon are the only countries left in the world that are still using chimps for medical...

Diamonds are for a nano-second - in the glitter of a candle light, that is. In a stroke of brilliance,...

Despite an evident contrast, geologists claim that the region of modern day El Paso, Texas was once attached to the...

I was lucky enough this weekend to be away from the city and at an altitude of about 1800m, deep...

Well, I guess Han Solo should be more careful where he parks his spaceship from now, since Swedish treasure hunters...

Biologists from Edinburgh University might have stumbled across a significant discovery, after strapping a tarantula to a magnetic resonance imaging...

A team of researchers from Yale University have shown at a cellular basis why we tend to be more forgetful...

An image of Lophiomys imhausi, the African Crested Rat. I've always amazed how some non-primate species manage to sometimes use...

UAE might harbor in its Dubai oasis the world's current tallest building, its Burj tower, but neighboring Saudi Arabia isn't...

More like props from a James Bond movie than something that might have come from a scientific lab, a new...

Archeologists unearthed from Mexico's underground a spectacular Olmec-style stone carving depicting three sitting felines, dated from 700 B.C. Dubbed the...

The latin phrase "mens sana in corpore sano" has been put to the test by researchers who wanted to study...

(c) Genesis In a recent groundbreaking research study, scientists from Seoul National University in South Korea have successfully created a...

The famous volcano in Sicily has been subjected to a number of eruption in this highly active past year. This...

Crop circles have always been an important weapon in any conspiracy theorist's arsenal, certain to be mentioned alongside UFOs, green...

There's no secret to anyone, I believe, that the world is over-crowded right now. By the end of 2011, according...

It wasn't just a devastating asteroid that killed off all the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists from Boston University...

Studying the immense 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire, which burned 401 square miles and becoming the largest tundra fire on record,...

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Chinese paleontologists have detailed their impressions on the finding of a chicken-sized...

Recently, China's Yellow Sea has been clogged for a surface of nearly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) by a...

A new Oxford University study shows how people living further away from the equator have bigger eyes and brains than...

The Universe is in constant expansion, which is why it is commonly said to be infinite, so basically one can...