In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, a team of scientists from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the University of Warwick and IBM Research – Zurich...
A European scientist has presented an explanation for the origin of sliding friction between solid objects.
An experiment to demonstrate static and sliding...
An international team of researchers has identified why some curry dishes, made with spices humans have used for thousands of years, might be good for...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a rare ancient artifact that provides the earliest evidence for the existence of the...
Australian researchers have identified a formula to understand why some branded movies go viral on YouTube.
YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California...
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 37 stone artifacts at three new localities near the Liuhuaishan, an important early Paleolithic site...
Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia.
Reconstruction...
Scientists from Britain and Australia have discovered a previously unrecognized volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing,...
A team of scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles has found that binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid.
Crystalline...
A team of European scientists has found several specimens of thrips with pollen grains captured in amber, providing the oldest known evidence of insect...
An international team of scientists has found ambient background noise to be an important factor affecting creative cognition among consumers.
The new...
Archaeologists working in Turkey have found the evidence for a previously unknown ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time...
Researchers from the Natural History Museum in UK have identified the world’s smallest species of mammoth known to date.
The Cretan dwarf mammoth may...
A team of scientists from the University of Granada in Spain has found that many of the individuals claiming to see the aura of people – traditionally...
Chinese scientists have proposed that an object collected 35 years ago from a tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Fuyang city and called “lacquerware...
Australian researchers have suggested that finding rocky, Earth-like exoplanets that can sustain life will be crucial for us as a species.
An artist’s...
A team of mathematicians and computer scientists led by Dr. Vincent Borrelli of the Université Lyon I in France has succeeded for the first time in constructing...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered fossils of the largest feathered dinosaur known to date.
An artist’s impression of a group of...
Dr. Robert Benfer of the University of Missouri has discovered numerous earthen animals rising above the coastal plains of Peru, including a giant condor,...
An international team of paleontologists led by Dr. Xiaolin Wang of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology has discovered a new...
