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Yes, you've read that right. There are over 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, according to the Kepler telescope, ...

Artists suffer for their art - it's a well known fact. But for an artist at the New York University, ...

The fascination with T. Rex goes back a really long time, and whether you're a world class paleontologist, or some ...

One of the "highlights" of being a student or a young employee is having to stay up at night and ...

That's right people, all the life on this beautiful planet (yep, that includes you) could descend from alien zombies. Well, ...

An asteroid threat to Earth seems like something we are going to have to face, sooner or later - and ...

It's always nice when new species are discovered, and this time it was an expedition from Papua New Guinea that ...

The Cape ground squirrel takes sex very seriously. For the males, the scrotum is about 20% of their body length, ...

It's often remarkable the ways in which seemingly disparate characteristics of personality mingle. Whether this interaction is remarkable due to ...

Peter Higgs is not the rockstar type of scientist; the particle physicist rarely gives interviews, despite the fact that he ...

A group of scientists from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center discovered a new chemical compound that helps newborn ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) published some quite awesome pictures showing that Antarctica isn't the lifeless frozen wasteland most people ...

Nanotechnology is perhaps the field with the most spectacular development over the past years, but it can be really hard ...

You're not going to power too many devices with electricity from trees. But it is a very interesting phenomenon.

The response to the awesome phenomena article was amazing, I'd really like to thank you all! I was really surprised ...

Ladies and gents (really, stay away from this one kids; trust me, save whatever is left of your innocence), I've ...

A new bacteria that has been named Herminiimonas glaciei, found in the heart of Greenland, trapped under more than 3 ...

It's quite impossible not to be aware of the fact that someone is smoking marijuana somewhere around you because of ...

What you see may be very much related to what you've just felt. Even though we were taught at school ...

Don't imagine a yellow, puffy golden chick doing complicated equations (as awesome as that would be) as it would be ...

Everyone having children or who has ever babysat at least for a couple of hours knows what an impossible task ...

Even though we claim to be living in the third millenium and we've "evolved" significantly from say, 50 years ago, ...

Let's play a little imagination game: you are a renown professor of psychiatry at an important university and you are ...

When Oscar was diagnosed with a very aggresive form of cancer called anal sac adenocarcinoma, his days seemed numbered - ...

Whether it's due to novels and movies or some morbid fascination, more and more people seem to be fascinated about ...

Lava, the molten rock that flows from inside the Earth, can destroy everything in its path. Water, meanwhile is like ...

Recently, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered no more, no less than 12 pulsars, and it also detected gamma ray ...

How the dinosaurs appeared is clear, but it's not so clear how they dissapeared. One thing's for sure, they ruled ...

Photo by bocavermelha Sometimes, animals are better than humans. Quite a lot of times actually, but that's not the point ...

A rundown of the five tallest mountains in the world.

    Prions (or proteinaceous infectious particle; on comes from analogy to virion) are the nasty little buggers responsible for ...

Nowadays almost everybody, even most bad ass bikers wear safety helmets, and there is a very good reason for that. ...

  Charging your cell phone may be as simple as a walk in the park - literally. Scientists have created ...

MESSENGER is a spacecraft which recently made a flyby near Mercury and it gave scientists a whole new perspective over ...

We have just began to understand our genome yet there are still numerous things we fail to understand; there is ...