The legendary Viking “sunstone” may have existed and may have been found, French scientists claim.
For breakfast lovers and lunchmeat fanatics, it is a sad day. Two of the staple foods-bacon and bologna-have been shown to accelerate the risk of two big time killers: cancer and heart disease.
The winter storm that hit the Midwest will now be rolling through the mid-Atlantic area, ready to hit our nation's capital, with potential power outages.
Physicists announced today, speaking at the ongoing Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy, that the new particle discovered at CERN last year that is most likely the Higgs boson is looking more and more like the real thing. However, more analysis is still required before a definitive statement can ...
A team of scientists was very successful in their hunt for meteorites in Antarctica and found one of the largest ever, among a total of 425 meteorites. The team, based at Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research base, discovered the meteorite weighing 18kg embedded in the East Antarctic ice ...
The crucial liquid helium coolant of ESA’s Herschel space observatory is set to run out in just a few weeks, which will mean the end of the device that served astronomers for more than three exciting years studying the cool Universe.
Japan may not be the best place to go when you're having medical issues, especially due to overcrowded hospital room and staff shortages.
A big bottleneck of current data transfer technology, the slow speed of wireless transfers, is now in the early stage of being addressed. Researchers at Georgia Tech have drawn up blueprints for a wireless antenna made from atom-thin sheets of carbon, or graphene, that could allow terabit-per-second...
The black hole firewall paradox is incorrect, according to a new study.
The mystery of how a fox-like wolf came to live on the Falkland Islands may have finally been solved.
An attempt to ban the international trade in polar bear parts has provoked a battle at the CITES conservation meeting in Bangkok.
Mount Etna sent plumes of ash and lava into the night sky on Tuesday, creating a spectacular sight for anyone nearby. Watch it for yourself!
