Soft-bodied creatures rarely stand the test of time, as their remains often decay before they can fossilize, leaving paleontologists to rely on mere ...

Canadian scientists have found the shipwrecked vessel that first discovered the Northwest Passage. The vessel was the HMS Investigator, a British ship that ...

Scientists previously believed that whales and dolphins did not have the ability to smell, but one group of researchers have found olfactory receptors ...

The rocky terrain of the Moon crunches under the wheels of the lunar rover as it closes in on its destination. You are ...

The Brain Is a Noisy Place The human brain is capable of processing 100 trillion calculations per second, the equivalent of 100 teraflops ...

Vigorous Mating Displays Enhance Bird Fertility Mating displays aren’t just for show – how well a bird can strut its stuff directly affects ...

Virtusphere is Zorb 2.0 Think the PlayStation Move or Microsoft Kinect peripherals are neat? They’ve got nothing on the Virtusphere. The Virtusphere is ...

Scientists have been searching for the elusive “god particle” – a particle believed to be responsible for all of the mass in the ...

There’s been some debate over whether or not we should be cleaning up the grimy animal casualties from BP’s oil spill. Over 500 ...

Relocating Too Often as a Kid Makes You Neurotic If you are one of those kids whose family relocates constantly, this study is ...

Locust Brain Grows 30 Percent When Swarming We’ve heard of people changing their style to better fit in with the crowd, but swarming ...

First Synthetic, Self-Replicating Cell Created Dr. J. Craig Venter and other research scientists have created the first live cell to house an entirely ...