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Scientists have genetically engineered mice able to express a certain enzyme, which allows for an increased metabolic rate. The lab...

For years and years scientists have tried to make hydrogen exhibit metal properties, by experimentally proving what's already been more...

Cancer is currently responsible for 13% of all worldwide deaths, and although remarkable progress has been made in treating this...

Here's how renewable energy can be proliferated easily trough out the world, the developed one at least - scale it and...

A new study which capitalized on an extensive ongoing survey, shows that children with high IQs, especially girls, are more...

In 2009, a rather controversial new wing of the CIA was formed under the climate center moniker. This division was,...

Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of numerous whale fossils, dating back from seven million years ago,  in Northern Chile. On...

The rotifer is an extremely fascinating creature, mainly due to its wheel-like head, which also also earns it the name...

Conservationists are prepared to declare the Western Black Rhino officially extinct soon, after poaching killed off the remainder of already...

On November 1st, only a few weeks ago, China opened a new chapter in its space program after successfully docking...

Biofuels are considered one of the leading alternative fuels on the market right now, because of their lower impact on...

One of the fundamental backbones of the Big Bang theory states that after the rapid expansion of the Universe only...

(c) NASA After the International Space Station was completed, scientists noticed that exposure to weightlessness may have some deleterious effects...

A recent art photography exhibition, dubbed  Amazon, is currently on display at Somerset House in London, which brings together two remarkable, distinct...

University of Nottingham researchers are currently involved in synthetic biology project, whose scope and prospects are so ambitious, that if...

In the first study of its kind, a group of researchers have quantified the financial impact of climate-change infused natural...

There's nothing not to love about animals. Since the dawn of mankind, animals have offered humans food, clothing and company....

The Hubble telescope has captured through an innovative technique, which harnessed light bent from a distant galaxy in a optical...

The city of Dubuque, Iowa is a quite and clean city, housing a population of 60,000, making it the 8th...

Almost one year and a half ago six volunteers embarked on a fictive mission to Mars, designed to simulate the...

Part of an ambitious NASA survey over the Antarctic, which intends on 3D mapping the continent's glaciers in detail, one...

A very intriguing theory says that the Vikings used to navigate through traitorous Arctic waters, and possibly even through the...

The gecko is one of the most fascinating lizards, because of its feet's unique ability of dry adherence to solid surfaces allowing...

Trekkies might rejoice at the news that NASA has recently decided to fund a research group employed to study how...

Developing safe, reliable, compact, and cost-effective hydrogen storage technologies is one of the most technically challenging barriers to the widespread...

“I’m never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch?”, Fry, Futurama. The clumsy yet beloved...

A biblical-like creature has sprung out into the world recently, when a  two-headed albino milk snake was born - an...

In just a few hours, at 5 p.m. EDT, China will make another giant leap forward in its ever ambitious space...

I'm pretty sure some of you went out costumed as robots this Halloween weekend, be it as Star Wars' C3PO...

  A great deal has been said and uncovered since Apple's founder Steve Jobs' passing. His sister, Mona Simpson an...

Medtronics is a medical tech behemoth worth $15 billion. Among other cutting edge medical tech and R&D SciFi prototypes, the...

I'm a bit of a stand-up comedy fan, and no too long ago I used to gobble up anything Comedy...

Yesterday NASA tested a 18,000 pound mock-up of the ambitious Orion spacecraft in a water basin, to simulate how it...

The art of science is most evident when one manages to accurately assert truths about a given fact with little...

Hypnosis has been considered for the past 250 years by the scientific community as being nothing more than a cute...

Floods are a major hazard to crops worldwide. This year alone, billions of dollars worth of crops came to waste...

A new study published by researchers at University of Hong Kong has produced controversial waves among the astronomy community, as...

Stunning Northern Lights ... or more like North-ish Lights in Marquette, Michigan Northern Lights. (c) Shawn Malone The northern hemisphere...

In the new mobile information age where smartphones have become an ever common part of our lives, there seems to...

Researchers at Linköping University have taken up themselves to study the intricate personality of the sperm donor. What they found...

This Friday morning NASA will upgrade its climate and weather observatory capabilities, when it's set to launch a new, high-end...

Looks like one of NASA's latest priorities is to protect its lunar heritage from illegal black market trade of moon artifacts,...

They didn't actually use other mastodons as killer pets, instead it's been found that early hunters used mastodon bones for...

Satellite deployments make up most of the space launches in any given year, however it's also a highly risky operation....

At the nano scale, even the slightest of motions can be harnessed and transformed into useful work. Material science researchers...

Another one from the realm of James Cameron's movies - a robot that can build other robots. While the technology...

While the Earth is steadily being depleted of its natural resources, it might become imperative to look to the sky...

What you just saw in the video above is a perfect demonstration of the quantum levitation effect, through a fairly...