Up until now, only a few species of primates and birds have shown the ability to understand the concept of the future. But now, a type of weasel, the tayra, has shown it can plan for the future. The weasel has been obser...

(YouTube link) Jonti Picking recently found footage of a scientist demonstrating head stability in an owl in 1962 and wrote a little song about it. -via Arbroath...

According to a new scientific paper, cancer might actually be a newly evolved species of parasite based on the fact that the cells depend on their hosts for food, but otherwise act independently and to the detriment of t...

Environmental Graffiti has a great collection of pictures of The Orion Nebula for your viewing pleasure. After viewing them all, I can't help but think they should take over as the Rorschach Test of the new century....

In the eternal struggle for survival, animals are constantly evolving new strategies to win. This arms race is particularly evident when looking at the fight between opossums and snakes. Possums have built up a tolerance...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory announced today that they have observed a rare property in a special class of metals called multiferroics: they have both magnetic and electr...

We’ve all experienced the pain and heartbreak associated with water-related electronics tragedies. From cell phones dropped in the toilet to laptops caught in the rain, getting your electronic devices wet used to spell...

Remember the good old science kits of yesteryear that contained things like cya...  ...blow up the kitchen anymore! How do the original science toys stack up against their modern counterparts?...  ...llectors Weekly looks at both the old and the new science kits, which inclu...

I love scientific studies. I read study reports be...  ...pic warranted study at all—sometimes, it seems, science sets out to confirm the obvious. Here are a few s...  ...whether someone is a friend or foe, according to Science Now. To test this, researchers showed different...  ...It seems getting men to cry...

A new study has found that around 15% of all snails eaten by hungry birds survive the ordeal and live to be eaten another day. In fact, one of the snails in the study immediately gave birth right after she crawled out o...