A new colorful lizard species has been discovered by a team of Russian and German scientists in Southern Vietnam.
Rhinos in South Africa have been named as the newsmaker of the year 2012 by the National Press Club. This is because of the increasing rate of rhino poaching, which has been in the news the entire year. It has evoked strong emotions.
A new arachnid specie has been discovered from California's Joshua Tree National Park and has been named after U2 lead singer Bono as "Aptostichus bonoi".
A new study has shown that the number of seizure patients in a northern Japanese fishing community spiked in the weeks following the tsunami.
NASA has photographed a huge crater on Mars which hints that water may lurk in crevices under the planet's surface.
NASA has signed a $17.8 million contract with Bigelow Aerospace, a firm based near Las Vegas, to build an inflatable habitat that could be added to the space station by 2015.
The Python Challenge 2013 contestants have already caught and killed 21 snakes since the competition kicked off on January 12 in a bid to get rid of invasive Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Scientists have created thin film solar cells with a new record efficiency of 20.4 percent for converting sunlight into electricity.
The remains of the only U.S. Navy ship sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during the war can now be seen in 3-D sonar images.
Orkin recently released its annual listing of the cities with the most treatments for bed bugs.
Analysing high-resolution 3D images taken in 2012 by the Mars Express stereo camera, the European Space Agency astronomers verified that the region Reull Vallis contains a river-like structure. They believe it was formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past, cutting a steep-sided ch...
Quantum teleportation is possibly becoming more efficient! Mathematicians worked out a paper titled "Generalized Teleportation and Entanglement Recycling", in which they propose a new, more efficient protocol for teleportation which allows for a wide variety of potential applications in quantum phys...
