While the rest of the planet celebrated Christmas with their loved ones, astronauts on board the International Space Station did things quite...
There might just be a new kind of bulletproof material. Graphene has had many contributions to advances in material science. It is...
For over twenty years, scientists have debated on the age of the oldest fossils ever found on the planet. Now, paleobiologists have...
Labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been lighting up for an unusual, innovative reasons: glow-in-the-dark plants. Engineers at the institution have...
The first ever alien object to enter the Solar System may hold interstellar water in it, a study suggests. The asteroid, named...
A video showing a snow monkey humping a sika deer went viral, prompting a scientific inquiry into the unusual animal behavior. Researchers...
The Earth makes a sound, quite literally. Different from things like winds rustling or waves crashing on the beach, the actual planet...
Scientists have finally hurdled 50 years of theories and failed attempts to prove the existence of a new form of matter: a...
Government officials state that the endangered right whales could easily become extinct in as little as a year unless efforts to save...
NASA announced that it will be holding a press conference to reveal a breakthrough from its Kepler telescope. The discovery was helped...
Scientists have finally unveiled the oldest hominid skeleton ever found in South Africa, following more than twenty years of excavating and restoring....
Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires gathered to award some of the world’s leading life scientists, physicists and mathematicians with generous funds in a...
Two healthy baby worms were born in simulated Martian soil, providing scientists with insight regarding how future farming might be conducted on...
NASA has successfully conducted an engine test on a spacecraft located 13 billion miles away. Ground controllers sent remote commands to fire...
Researchers looking into the philosophical question, “Why do we like what we like?” have found that several factors, including poetry that provides...
Going to space and spending months at a time floating in the International Space Station may sound like a dream come true,...
Dogs just may be smarter than cats, and dog owners really might have bragging rights on that particular debate, if this research...
Scientists from MIT CSAIL and Harvard’s Wyss Institute have made a development in soft robotics by pairing the flexible inventions with stiff...
There will soon be people on Mars, and joining them will be beer. Anheuser-Busch, the US-based brewing company, is set to make...
Australia may be late to the space race, but it’s not sitting back. The country opened its first national space mission facility...