This month, the percentage of California still stuck in a drought dropped by 22 percent in a single week, as the wettest winter in decades saw an onslaught of storms deliver record-breaking rains across the state. Read More...
A vast patch of abnormally warm water in the Pacific Ocean - nicknamed the blob - resulted in increased levels of ozone above the Western US, researchers have found. Read More...
For the first time ever, the World Health Organization has drawn up a list of the highest priority needs for new antibiotics — marching orders, it hopes, for the pharmaceutical industry. Read More...
Scientists have discovered the magnetism of electrons in three layers of graphene. This study reveals a new kind of magnet and provides insight on how electronic devices using graphene could be made for fundamental studies as well as various applications. Read More...
We're all excited about the potential of quantum computers - devices that will harness strange quantum phenomena to perform calculations far more powerful than anything conventional computers can do today. Read More...
On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian philosopher, musician, and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Read More...
Our muscles are amazing structures. With the trigger of a thought, muscle filaments slide past each other and bundles of contracting fibers pull on the bones moving our bodies. Read More...
The technology to control a computer using only your thoughts has existed for decades. Yet we’ve made limited progress in using it for its original purpose: helping people with severe disabilities to communicate Read More...
Scientists have engineered the first ever 'semi-synthetic' organisms, by breeding E. coli bacteria with an expanded, six-letter genetic code. While every living thing on Earth is formed Read More...
n a study out this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine, a group of British doctors reported that they had successfully “cured” two infants of the blood cancer leukemia using a treatment that involves genetically modified immune cells from a donor. Read More...
The average adult human is made up of (7 octillion) atoms, and most of them are hydrogen - the most common element in the Universe, produced by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Read More...
It's scary enough making a doctor's appointment to see if a strange mole could be cancerous. Imagine, then, that you were in that situation while also living far away from the nearest doctor, unable to take time off work and unsure Read More...
Thousands of years ago, it didn’t just rain on the Sahara Desert. It poured.
Grasslands, trees, lakes and rivers once covered North Africa’s now arid, unforgiving landscape. From about 11,000 to 5,000 years ago, much higher rainfall rates than previously estimated created that “Green Sahara,” Read More...
A lot happened in 2016, but one of the biggest cultural shifts was the rise of fake news - where claims with no evidence behind them (e.g. the world is flat) get shared as fact alongside evidence-based, peer-reviewed findings (e.g. climate change is happening). Read More...
With 9,504 compute cores, 38 TeraByte memory and a peak performance of 302.4 TeraFlop/s it is more than six times as powerful as its predecessor. The scientists of the department “Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity” Read More...
Not always an experiment is successful sometimes the consequences can be fatal, as shown in these 10 cases. These events are redefining the proverb "no good thing goes unpunished." For these scientists, desire for knowledge has led to their death. Read More...
The energy density contained in the center of a star is higher than we can imagine -- many billions of atmospheres, compared with the 1 atmosphere of pressure we live with here on Earth's surface. Read More...
For the first time, scientists have used cellular reprogramming to reverse the ageing process in living animals, enabling mice with a form of premature ageing to live 30 percent longer than control animals. Read More...
Oceanic crust newly formed thinner than the old one, according to research. This indicates that the shell thinning earth cooled more quickly than was previously supposed Read More...
The new discovery raises questions regarding punishment of criminals under 30 years.
For the most sophisticated processes such as attention, perception, decision-making and risk-taking, the brain begins reaching maturity until the fourth decade. Read More...
Science is one of the most remarkable innovations of mankind. This was a source of inspiration and understanding of social change, economic and medical. However, some findings have brought more destruction than benefit. Here is one of the biggest mistakes in the history of science. Read More...
The report does not claim the prize holders deserved or not that research was flawed, the physicist argues that the way the commission interpreted discovery is wrong. Read More...
The world's first solar street was commissioned in the province of Normandy in north-eastern France.
One kilometer of road was paved with solid solar panels (2,800 square meters of solar tiles) that produce energy.
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Last year – although a rather grim one by other measures – was a splendid one for research. From gravitational waves to cooing dinosaurs, we’ve uncovered a lot about the world around us, but as a remarkable new study has revealed, there’s a lot within us we’ve yet to discover too. Read More...
A massive 7.3 magnitude underwater earthquake has struck off the coast of the Philippines, it has emerged. The quake, southeast of the island of Jolo , was measured at a depth of 380 miles in the Celebes Sea, the US Geological Survey said. But Philippine seismologists say it was Read More...
The construction of the tallest monument in the world started in India. The gigantic statue will represent the Indian national hero Shivaji, who lived and reigned in the eighteenth century. Read More...
One of the first things you learn about evolution in school is that the human body has a number of 'vestigial' parts - appendix, wisdom teeth, tailbone - that gradually fell out of use as we adapted to more advanced lifestyles than our primitive ancestors. Read More...
Evan Smith wanted to get his hands on the world's biggest diamonds — the kind that sit atop royal scepters, and the ones that are always the target of elaborate movie heists. Read More...
If your dreams are particularly boring, or if you just want to have a little more fun at night, scientists say you may be able to control what you dream about. Even better is that it’s possible to take control of your dream and do whatever you want! Read More...
What produces these depraved nocturnal deliriums, and what purpose they serve, are questions that neuroscientists, shamans, and technicolor dreamcoat-wearers have attempted to answer since the dawn of man Read More...
Although the sun is our nearest star, it still hides many secrets. But it seems that one solar conundrum may have been solved and a theory originally proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein could be at the root of it all. Read More...
However, some of them claim to have found finally its origin after they have identified a link between three specific areas of the brain that appear to be crucial in terms of the emergence of consciousness. Read More...
As of November 8, the periodic table, developed by Dmitry Mendeleev was officially completed four new symbols, according to press office of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Read More...
Alzheimer's has remained the most common form of mental illness and is the sixth cause of death in the United States, but a viable and safe drug could not be achieved until now. Read More...
Is a gas field in Derwa, Turkmenistan, which crashed in a cave in 1971, becoming a crater natural gas.Geologists have set fire to prevent releasing methane gas and then burns continuously. The diameter of the crater is 69 meters and its depth of 30 meters.. Read More...
Most people can survive without food a few weeks, but eventually starvation kill them.
Determining limits a person can live without vital resources fluctuate. Can live without water for at least a week, but if during the food may vary. Read More...
Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi, autophagy mechanism for discovery. Errors in these genes can cause a range of diseases, and these findings help explain the causes of diseases like cancer or Parkinson's disease. Read More...
Robert Langdon, the famous "symbologist" from Harvard, created by writer Dan Brown, wipes dust off the tweed jacket and on his shirt the color of coal and engage in solving another mystery in future novel author c- s, Brown announced his publishers. Read More...
Physics Prize winners for 2016 announced on Tuesday the Nobel committee in Stockholm. Read More...
For the first time in the history of research, scientists were able to identify what they think are the places where memories are formed and stored our. Briefly, neurons working with information about who we are and about the things you've done or I've lived in the past. Read More...
In a study published in the medical journal The Lance was revealed the top countries with the healthiest population.
The research, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was driven largely by the United Nations. Read More...
The known fossil of an ancestor is known by the name of Lucy. The new details about how he died were published in a study.
By using CT researchers have evaluated the fossil fractures of 3.81 million years ago. Read More...
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