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A single molecular switch can make the transition between the active, malleable brain of an adolescent and the mature, stable ...

You may understand that all people are different, but it takes a lot of genetics to understand just how different ...

For more than two centuries physicians have been using general anesthetics to perform surgeries, however even now in the 21st ...

An artist's illustration of the Inspiration Mars Foundation's spacecraft for a 2018 mission to Mars by a two-person crew. The ...

NASA has, for the first time, released a global map of ocean salinity. The first thing that popped up for ...

I had no plans whatsoever for this Sunday evening. To be quite honest, I didn't feel like writing an article ...

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie? Sorry about that folks - that was a ...

NASA's Kepler telescope is on a roll - recently, astronomers working on it discovered a new planetary system that is ...

Opabinia is an extinct stem-arthropod genus, measuring approximately 4cm head to tail. It had five eyes and a single appendage ...

The massive, global risk that global warming poses has once again been highlighted by researchers - this time, by geologists ...

Now, I'm not advocating alcohol consumption, but truth be told most of us take alcohol for granted, and I'm not ...

Your smartphone amateur photos could be instantly converted into professional-looking pictures at the touch of a button, thanks to a ...

Well we all use disposable tissues, dishes, I've heard of disposable tails of even limbs, but a disposable penis? Talk ...

EPOXI mission image shows what an Earth-like exoplanet might look like from afar. (c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/GSFC The Kepler mission has proven ...

Contrary to what you might think, this is not some rainbow slime dripping on the rocks - this is the ...

In case you didn't know, China has a massive problem with smog; the dark shroud has covered a large part ...

Vaccines have become synonymous to needles, and for a lot of people they're the subject of horror stories since childhood. Typically, a ...

For a few years now, Google has been developing what it claims to be the next generation in user interface, ...

A former soldier who sadly became a quadruple amputee during his time in Iraq after an explosion three years ago ...

Deep Space Industries (DSI), a private space ventures company, has recently announced plans of launching a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft set ...

They say April showers bring blooming flowers - but the same could be said for global warming. A recent study ...

A new study from researchers at Queen's University Belfast, UK, found that indeed shellfish, like crabs or lobsters that are ...

In what looks to be one of the most one sided and saddening events in the Amazon rainforest history, an ...

Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in ...

Well, the year really kicked off in style. This research is really next level physics, and in order to understand ...

It's been quite the year, ladies and gentlemen - many discoveries, many studies and inventions; from the tiniest of particles ...

Credit: Anna Henly, Winner, The World is in our hands award/Environment wildlife photographer of the year 2012/BBC Worldwide The world ...

On December 21 the solar system's planets will align and/or the sun will also align in turn with the center ...

Spiders are truly remarkable creatures, but some of them are absolutely unique! This time, biologists working in the Amazon have ...

As I was telling you in a previous article, researchers from NASA have created a high-res gravity map for the ...

Yesterday morning, the U.S. Air Force launched its X-37B robotic space plane into orbit via an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida's Cape ...

rdue and Harvard universities. The transistor is made from tiny nanowires of a material called indium-gallium-arsenide, which could replace silicon ...

Fairy circles, or fairy rings as they have sometimes been called, are known to many cultures around the world and ...

A proton collides with a lead nucleus, sending a shower of particles through the CMS detector. (c) CERN After the ...

Around the globe, local climates are changing. Maybe you haven't noticed it yet, because in most regions this is a slow ...

A new study published by MIT revealed, for the first time, what happens inside the brain when you go unconscious. ...

Researchers at MIT have created a new metamaterial that they used to fashion a concave lens capable of focusing radio ...

The Hydra is a tiny animal that can be found in just about any freshwater pond, just a few millimeters ...

Take a moment to think about what your ears do. The human ear has a complex system for turning mere ...

Astronomers have used a novel planet hunter instrument to detect a new possible life supporting, Earth-like exoplanet. In fact the ...

When you think of asteroid impacts, the last thing that might come to mind is life. Contrary to popular belief, ...

Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory disease that causes the airways of the lungs to swell and narrow, leading to wheezing, ...

The most detailed observations of the icy world of Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, show complex weather patterns ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has always been a fascinating thought, one that has entertained the human mind for generations, ...

Astrobotic Technology Inc., a spin-off company of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) announced a full-sized prototype called the Polaris lunar rover ...

The universe is expanding - fast. Researchers had a pretty good idea how fast, but now, they measured in even ...

It's not only tigers, corals and other known and liked animals that are close to extinction: beetles have it rough ...

Dissolvable electronic materials could be extremely useful in medical procedures and environmentally friendly gadgets - and they're almost here. Dissolving ...

At the center of most galaxies lie black holes, some of which are classed as supermassive black holes. These cosmic ...

Spy drones have been used by the US government on a various occasion in Pakistan to gather intelligence from the ...