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Photo: Wikimedia Commons For some, it might seem like recycling popped out of the blue in the 1970's, once with ...

Photo: dogsense.co.uk It's always depressing when we hear stories of dogs attacking people, more so when injuries lead to death. ...

Photo:Johan Wingborg/AP Doctors from Sweden recently revealed they have successfully completed a total of nine womb transplants, marking a new ...

While happiness and meaningfulness often overlap, the two are distinct states of being. A Stanford project looked into the lives ...

The stoat may look cute, but it's one of the most invasive species in the world.

Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical nanostructures with a myriad of potential applications. They are the strongest and stiffest materials yet discovered ...

Photo: spartandaily.com Every business out-there, be it a corporate giant or a small shop, has it in its mind that ...

The clunky and heavy astronaut costumes used today are very useful and well thought - they provide oxygen, scrub CO2, ...

In a black hole, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity clashes with quantum physics; for decades, scientists have tried to find ...

The most common grade at Harvard is A, and the median grade is A-, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. ...

Brigham Young University (BYU) engineers have teamed up with one of the world's leading experts in origami to solve one ...

Generosity and fairness photo credit: tochis As shoppers all around got more or less advantageous deals on Black Friday, researchers ...

© Pimpin Nagawan. Magnificent view in Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia in the morning. National Geographic invites photographers from all ...

This classy looking chap is a bonobo - a great ape species which is widely overlooked and often forgotten. A ...

Are hairy men attractive to women? The answer can vary greatly depending on culture and personal preference.

Geologists have now found the most compelling evidence of granites on Mars - something which prompts more complex theories about ...

This five-cell metamaterial converts stray microwave energy, as from a WiFi hub, into more than 7 volts of electricity with ...

(c) University of Iowa You'll be pretty impressed by this novel research. Scientists at  University of Iowa have developed an ingenious biopatch ...

The human brain is possibly the most complex entity in the Universe. It's absolutely remarkable and beautiful to contemplate, and ...

As we were telling you a while back, the Western Black Rhino is officially extinct. Poaching, the loss of habitat, ...

Tesla Model S at a charging station A lot of Americans are buying into the electric car dream. As noble ...

It's not the workload that usually causes depression - it's an unfair boss and an unfair environment which usually does ...

The 19 days long Government shutdown was finally lifted recently, as thousands of employees returned to their day jobs. The ...

A British company has developed colored but transparent solar cells which add just 10% to the price of the glass ...

It's actually happening Good news - encouraging results from the longest and largest trial of a malaria vaccine could see ...

It was a result so unexpected that MIT researchers first thought there was some kind of mistake - under certain ...

(c) Backyard Brains Through the halls of TedxDetroit last week, participants were introduced to an unfamiliar and unlikely guest - ...

Researchers at MIT have recreated Mars-like conditions within a three-story-tall cloud chamber in Germany, adjusting the temperature and humidity to ...

The beginning of autumn brings cold weather, and with it, another type of flu. We here at ZME have already ...

A few days ago, we were telling you about the Pakistan earthquake which created a new island just off the ...

Last year, an astronaut named Don Pettit started an unusual, but very poetic and insightful writing project on NASA's website: ...

Some 5.000 years separate us from the birth of Ancient Egypt, in 3.100 BC. Add another 5.000 years, and you ...

Ever since 2010, I've been telling you about a group of scientists and investors which wants to send people to ...

MIT and Chilean researchers working together have developed a fog harvesting system which can provide drinkable water for even 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 ...

I’ve written about our incredible biological ability to gather information about our environment by sensing electromagnetic radiation. As complex as ...

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

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

Somewhere in the far reaches of space (or perhaps in some realm that we have yet to discover), a bunch ...

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

Water droplets, coffee granules, fragments of polystyrene and even a toothpick - all of these, and more, have been levitating ...

Scuba divers have discovered a primeval underwater forest off the coast of Alabama - a cypress forest which was incredibly ...

Is there something that graphene can't do? It's the world's strongest material, even when it has flaws, a graphene aerogel ...

If you've ever visited a cave, you probably know the golden rules: Watch you're head, stay on the track, and ...

What do Australian researchers do when they don't want to do their homework? They make a study in which they ...

The case of birds missing out on a proper penis has been a longstanding mystery in evolutionary biology. Roughly 97% ...

At 55 million years old, it represents the earliest known member of this broad group of animals that includes humans. ...

Just yesterday we were telling you about a change in diet 3.5 million years ago, modifying the way our hominid ...

Tho global meat giants with shady food and environmental safety records shook hands as they are planning to become the ...

  Researchers have for the first time described an unique snail species that can only be found high on top ...