Scientific Discovery
NASA has found water in the soil on the surface of Mars in the first scoop of soil analyzed by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. The exciting results were published in the journal Science on Thursday.
Scientists at MIT and Harvard have created a novel form of matter made from photons. Is that not exciting enough? Well, the new type of photonic molecule has been described by one of the researchers as similar to what you'd expect in light sabers.
Scientists have discovered four new species of legless lizards, which are native to California. And one of those species finds its home near LAX, Los Angeles's biggest airport.
Are we aliens? We may be (by "we," we mean organic life), according to a new study on the life-scattering possibilities of comets and meteors.
Researchers in Greenland have discovered a the largest canyon on earth, hidden underneath the massive island's ice sheet, which remains frozen year round. The canyon measures 2,600 feet deep and 6 miles wide, a scale that measures favorably against the famous Grand Canyon in Arizona, according to an NBC News report.
Who would have thought that the 2009 film Gamer would be more than a kitschy sci-fi action vehicle for Gerard Butler - the movie where rich kids control real human death-row convicts to play third-person shooters with their bodies as avatars. Turns out, we're one (tiny) step closer to such a reality, thanks to researchers at the University of Washington.
Astronomers at Columbia's Universidad de Antioquia have discovered what have since been dubbed "Lazarus" comets, along with their origin: the comet graveyard. The team's findings may explain why some activity of comet-like objects has been spotted in the solar system.
New research has put science one step closer to replacing the silicon-based computer chip with a different material. What does that mean? In the future, your smartphone might harness supercomputer-like speeds.
On the eve of the 44th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon and self-professed Apollo 11 devotee, announced that the rocket engine remnants he found in the ocean months ago are definitely from that momentous mission.
Sometimes a scientific or medical breakthrough doesn't touch the public until you put a face and a name on it: This short film called "Fire with Fire," gives you Emma, a 6-year-old leukemia patient whose cancer was cured - read again: Cured. - by an experimental therapy which used a modified HIV virus to reprogram her immune system to eradicate cancerous cells.
It may not be the year 2012 anymore, but the Mayans keep giving humanity fascinating pieces of their ancient culture to wonder over. Deep in the jungle of the southeastern state of Campeche, Mexico, archaeologists have discovered an ancient, huge, lost Mayan city called Chactún.
Scientists have found the first glowing, fluorescent protein in a vertebrate animal. The protein was found in the Japanese freshwater eel, and besides being an interesting thing to think about next time you're eating sushi, researchers say it could hold a key to simpler, better tests for human liver function.
Humanity may not be able to beam someone to and from a planet's surface like in Star Trek, but according to a new report in Nature Physics, we've just figured out how to perform quantum teleportation reliably - which is something that, dramatically, the crew of the Enterprise never seems to be capable of.
Imagine a giant lizard, six feet long and about the size of a sturdy dog, lumbering towards you through the ancient tropical flora of Southeast Asia. Now imagine that again, but set to the music of Jim Morrison's band, The Doors. Now, is this describing a bad Vietnam-era acid flashback, or bona fide paleontology? Thanks to researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, it's the latter.
When you think of Newcastle, Wyoming, what do you picture? Probably the last thing you might think of is a tyrannosaurus rex feeding ground, but that's what it was in the late Cretaceious period. Now, victims of the T. rex's bite have been unearthed in a recent excavation, including a rare, nearly perfectly-complete Triceratops skeleton.
