A new study published online in Leadership Quarterly indicates that our DNA may have more to do with our leadership abilities than we first realized.
At the time that the Jan. 14 image was taken by satellite, ground-based sensors at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing reported PM2.5 measurements of 291 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a sample during the Mars Science Labo...
Russia will start to build a robotic lunar base and plans to launch the first in a series of missions to the moon in 2015. Vladimir Popovkin, chief of Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, said on Tuesday that Luna-Glob will lift off from the Vostochny space port in Russia's Far East after severa...
In order to signify humanity's imminent demise, a group of scientists have updated the infamous Doomsday Clock to read five minutes before midnight.
Russian researchers drilling to access a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica could recover the first sample of transparent ice during drilling operations last week, Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reported.
The flu is continuing the spread across the United States with cities such as Boston experiencing more than 10 times as many cases as this time last year.
Flexible nanoscale circuits, which could be used in foldable devices, integrated in clothes, or used in satellites for their low weight, have been developed by Stephen Bedell and Davood Shahrjerdi at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Black carbon may be the second most important man-made agent of climate change, and may have two times more impact on global warming than previously realized.
The regenerative capabilities of tadpoles could help researchers unlock the process of faster human healing.
Biological self-assembly of nanodiamond arrays have been proposed and experimentally implemented for the first time by a team of researchers around Prof. Martin Plenio at Ulm University, Germany.
For years, astronomers have wondered why a super-dense gas cloud near our Milky Way galaxy’s core was not “birthing” more stars. Now they have found out why.
