Electron microscope based on revolutionary technique set to provide highest resolution images ever
Since they were first introduced more than 70 years ago, electron microscopes have aided researchers from a diverse array of fields of...
Tibi is a science journalist and co-founder of ZME Science. He writes mainly about emerging tech, physics, climate, and space. In his spare time, Tibi likes to make weird music on his computer and groom felines. He has a B.Sc in mechanical engineering and an M.Sc in renewable energy systems.
Since they were first introduced more than 70 years ago, electron microscopes have aided researchers from a diverse array of fields of...
Velociraptors have been repeatedly described by paleonthologists as voracious predators, however a recent study of a 75 million year old...
A recently published study suggests that the Earth might have been visited by a giant space rock 13,000 years ago,...
A lot of people were left disheartened when the iconic space shuttle program was canceled last year. Though it's now...
The biggest manhunt in physics history is steadily closing in on its target. Wanted - Higgs boson, also known as...
Faster than light travel is not only an exciting SciFi concept which has spurred the imagination of countless geek generations...
Trees employ a fractal structure of branches to twigs to spread a wide array of leaves for maximized sunlight collection....
What are the differences between a bottle of premium, high rated Pinot Noir and a shelf classic Merlot? Well, besides...
Scientists at University of California have successfully managed to engineer a new kind of hydrogels, capable of self-healing, which can...
Are you fed up with meaningless, rambling conference speakers? All too tired of phone calls around you at work? Wish...
Worldwide, motor vehicles currently emit well over 900 million metric tons of CO2 each year, amounting to more than 15 percent of...
The prospect of medical implants capable of delivering drugs directly to the patient's blood stream or tissue has been an...
While there's a common assumption that once with old age, sleep quality tends to deteriorate, a recent study published in...
A newly published paper in the journal Science provides a worrisome report - the world's oceans are acidifying at a...
The term Mars opposition basically refers to a geometric event. Thus on the 3rd of March, Mars will appear exactly...
This year's TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) recently took place in Long Beach, California, and as expect, the event was...
Located beneath the three stars that form the belt of Orion the Hunter, the Orion Nebula is one of the...
During man's exploits through out history, a great number of species were driven to extinction, either by excessive hunting, habitat...
Psychedelic mushrooms have been used for medical, ceremonial and spiritual purposes for thousands of years, due their mind-alterating properties which induce hallucinations,...
Last week we reported about a 300 million year old fossilized forest which was discovered underneath a coal mine in...
An immortal worm isn't exactly what comes to mind when researching how to live forever, but this inconspicuous creature could...
So we heard you like the International Space Station, so we made an ISS inside the ISS. Humor aside, I...
Although the T. rex isn't the largest carnivorous dinosaur to have roamed Earth, a new study that used computer models...
According to a recently released study authored by American physicians, sleeping pills are linked to a more-than fourfold risk of premature...
A new study which analyzed Neanderthal DNA suggests that our close, now extinct relatives were on the point of dying...
A recent study performed by a team of American/Chinese scientists shows that there's a direct link between the progressive shrinking...
A linguistic study found that people who regularly text message are less likely to accept new words, as opposed to...
Part of a the recent slew of revolutionary technological and scientific novelties coming off IBM's research and development lab, the company has...
For a number of years now researchers have been studying the sirtuin gene and the proteins encoded in it as...
A team of researchers comprised of scientists at the NanoScience Center of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and at Harvard...
Each year, billions of chickens are raised all over the world with the sole purpose of providing meat at the...
NASA recently issued a call-out to all those interested in joining a special, four-month long study, in which a stay...
Bergmann’s rule states that mammals of a given genus or species are smaller in hotter climates, and bigger in colder climates....
Last week, the U.S. Air Force released a report in which it outlines its technological and energy plans for the...
Good news for men, and especially women: the Y chromosome, which holds the male sex determining genes in most mammals,...
This is the kind of engineering feat that sounds so preposterous, so crazy, so ... foolish, that it might actually...
Scientists at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have set on a path that promises to revolutionize the way paleontology is studied, and...
The hunt for the second Earth, a similar life-bearing paradise like our own, rages on, and while no candidate came...
Astronomers at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have come across a true astronomical oddity at the outskirts of the Milky Way,...
Since the advent of modern DNA sequencing technology, biological research and discoveries has been dramatically accelerated. It's absolutely instrumental to...
There are currently an estimated 19,000 individual space debris swirling around Earth's orbit at 17,000 miles/hour, posing great threat to...
There's some good coming off China's extensive coal exploitation (the nation holds the top place for most pollutant emissions resulting...
Exactly two years ago, NASA launched a $850 million spacecraft, called the Solar Dynamics Observatory, on a five-year long mission...
A team of German and American researchers have discovered four new species of tiny chameleons on the island of Nosy...
You'd be surprised by how many of today's day to day devices were first developed after its creators got inspired...
3D perspective of a single-atom transistor. (C) RC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication, at UNSW. Australian scientists at University of...
In what can only be hailed as a breakthrough in the "smart drugs" field, scientists at Harvard University have successfully...
The Robonaut 2, an autonomous NASA robot commissioned to ease the lives of astronauts on board the International Space Station...
Most of the robots we've featured on ZME Science are more or less humanoid in their characteristic. Either they can...
Researchers report that after testing on lab mice an FDA-approved drug, used as treatment for skin cancer, that significant improvements...