A meteorite from Mars has been in researchers’ labs since the 1980s, when it was first discovered in the Allan Hills in Antarctica. 2014 ended with...
Large carnivores are finally making a serious comeback in Europe thanks to ongoing conservation efforts. A recent study has found that currently one third of mainland Europe...
The Galapagos islands are home to a wide variety of unique species such as the marine iguana, lava lizard, and Galapagos giant tortoise. The latter is of...
Newly discovered species often receive Latin names that most of us have a difficult time remembering. This is not always the case however as every once in a...
The U.S. government has stopped funding controversial research on three viruses and has asked the scientists involved to halt their studies regarding them. The viruses in...
The good folks over at NASA have made a very important discovery recently. Using the highly advanced NuSTAR X-ray telescope, the Space Agency’s astronomers have managed...
About 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, but the life sustaining element is not very common elsewhere in the Solar system. While astronomers...
Well, we finally managed to find life in outer space, although it’s not exactly what we were hoping for. A crew of Russian cosmonauts were recently on...
NASA launched the Cassini-Huygens robotic spacecraft back in 1997 in the hopes of learning more about Saturn and its ring system. After a long voyage of seven...
Nomophobia, the definition of which comes from the expression “no-mobile-phone” deserves its name because of the deep anxiety felt by people with this disease when they can’t access...