After a meeting of world's top climate scientists in Berlin, they announced Sunday that greenhouse gas emissions soared to "unprecedented levels" between 2000 and 2010.
Two studies released in The Lancet on Thursday revealed that American, Mexican and Swiss scientists can grow reproductive organs and nasal cartilage in a laboratory using human cells.
What does the ringed asteroid mean ? Can we visit there? Can humans exist there? The rings discovered around an old asteroid is when science fiction becomes a science fact.
Growing up, children have been taught that the Black Death, which spread throughout London in the mid-1300s and killed roughly 60 percent of the population, was caused by fleas off the backs of rats traveling on boats from Asia.
While tech companies like Facebook and Google are planning to deliver wireless data via hot air balloons or drones and fighting over which face-strapped monitors will be the future of the internet, the European Space Agency is busy at work on some serious, short-term high tech: our next mission to mars. But the way it's doing it looks fun.
Although it has been nearly three decades since the horrifying and disastrous nuclear explosion at Chernobyl, researchers have noticed that the dead trees and plants in the area have decomposed at a much slower rate than normal.
While millions of ordinary American citizens in 20 states and the nation's Capitol can legally purchase medical marijuana at the nearest dispensary and those living in Washington state and Colorado can purchase the drug recreationally, scientists and researchers find themselves out of the loop.
The planet Mercury is shrinking, but it is most certainly in no hurry. The planet Mercury is shrinking, but it is most certainly in no hurry. Images from NASA indicate that the planet, which is the smallest one in the solar system, is now 8 miles smaller in diameter today than it was more than three billion years ago.
When "Family Guy" creator and funny-man Seth MacFarlane announced that he along with famed astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson were working on bringing back the revolutionary 1980s PBS series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" it certainly raised some eyebrows.
The National Geographic reported on Feb. 24 that scientists believe the "blueberries" NASA's Opportunity rover found on Mars in 2004 are not geological evidence of ancient water.
Stanford and UC Berkeley joined forces with UC Los Angeles and the California Institute of Technology, forming the California Alliance for Education and Professoriate (CAEP). In partnership, the institutions, intend to tackle minority under-representation in math and science Ph.D. programs, and in faculty positions.
Reports say temperature will be 40 degrees with fifty percent chance of rain The Super Bowl is usually played in controlled conditions to remove all possible interferences from the game, since there is so much on the line for both teams.
Science fiction shows and movies depict space as a calm void full of stars and planets. But a recent study has put this misconception to rest -- not only is space anything but peaceful, it's full of rogue asteroids!
DNA extracted from the remains of a 7,000 year old man's tooth has helped researchers find out more information about our ancestors, a study published by the Nature journal reports.
Stephen Hawking is not afraid to lift a middle finger to the scientific community at large (metaphorically speaking, of course), and he's done it again with his bold proclamation that black holes aren't really black at all. In fact, he goes one step further: he claims that black holes don't exist.
The amazing visual spectacle could easily be a holy apparition, with the image of a bright hand in the sky poised to give a blessing. NASA even names the visual phenomenon the ‘Hand of God,’ for the uncanny depiction. The Great Falls Tribune however clarifies that the image actually depicts the exploded remains of a dying star.
While a female presence is predominant online, there is still a lot more work to do to encourage young women, including aspiring Latinas, to study in the field of computer science and later enter in the tech-related workforce.
The researchers explained their worked marks the first time magnetic sensitivity has been proven in dogs and that the magnetic field can cause measurable, predictable behavioral reactions in animals.
Researchers said the loss of connectivity during brain development can actually improve brain functions because it allows the network to be arranged more efficiently.
