Scientists are eagerly awaiting a much-needed facelift planned for the world’s favorite space telescope. This fall NASA astronauts plan to take a final space...

Endangered species may become extinct 100 times faster than previously thought, scientists warned today, in a bleak re-assessment of the threat to global biodiversity.

A while back scientists were making revolutionary breakthroughs in stem cell research. Unfortunately they fell foul of interpretations of thousand year old texts in...

The remarkable sound of a Stradivarius violin has been revealed. Scientists used a medical scanner to discover that the violin has a unique sound due to the...

Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies _ sudden...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) kicks off NASA\’s search for the next lunar landing site and manned mission to the moon and then to travel to Mars and...

An international team of scientists have bravely taken time away from fusion research, curing cancer and solar power to announce some truly staggering results: in war,...

Chirps and whistles of our planet\’s auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) might be the first thing an extraterrestrial civilization is likely to hear from Earth. In...

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

A primitive area of our brain makes us adventurous. New research suggests that new experience drives choice behavior in humans, even when the degree of familiarity with...

Scientists working on the Mars Phoenix Lander mission said preliminary analysis by the lander\’s instruments on a sample of soil scooped up by its robotic arm had...

Scientists with the Virginia Museum of Natural History have confirmed the discovery of a 500 million-year-old fossil called a stromatolite.

Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some...

Australian scientists have for the first time unearthed hard evidence of the discovery of natural gold nano particles

Scientists have identified a gene that may raise the risk of getting the most common kind of Alzheimer’s disease by about 45 percent in people who inherit a...

Why is Mars two-faced? Scientists say fresh evidence supports the theory that a monster impact punched the red planet, leaving behind perhaps the largest gash on any...

Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth’s history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to...

Scientists have for the first time discovered gold nanoparticles, setting to rest speculation about whether they existed at all. Scientists of the Commonwealth...

Scientists believe NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission’s principal...

Using MRI scans of gay and straight men and women, the researchers found that people who liked women — heterosexual men and homosexual women — had larger...