Ig Nobel Prizes are given to serious scientists where result of research is to make people laugh, then make them think. Now they have just announced winners for 2012.
We are losing our top large predators as their numbers are constantly falling bringing many species to the very edge of extinction, which has been causing harmful reactions across the landscapes and food chains.
French engineering company have announced that its new generation wind turbine is finally finished and ready to produce some serious megawatts of electricity.
Getting pandas to mate in captivity was never an easy task, breeding in nature is also considered not to be taken for granted. Newest studies now explain the peculiar behaviour.
In recent days a new spectacular dinosaur finding has been been discovered, a very well preserved 5 meter fossil of a 72 million year old dinosaur. Want to know which dinosaur it could belong to?
This is huge, Discovery channel announced that they recorded the first ever video footage of a giant squid in its natural habitat and it will go on air in less than a week. Here is a part of that footage.
Today a seminar was held in CERN about the Higgs search status. There were rumors they finally found the particle that would complete the standard model of partical physics.
The latest DNA analysis of around 7,000 years old male hunter-gatherer from Spain may shed some new light over the theory of why European's skin became lighter in color.
It was a good week for wildlife and nature, Persian leopard was held for extinct and Siberian snow leopard has been photographed for the very first time.
A new study shows, in years 2003-2010 about 4 billion metric tons of Himalayan glacier's ice melted away, that's less then 10 percent of the amount that was predicted before.
The Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling did explain how the leopard got its spots and camel its hump, but he never answered how the zebra got its stripes.
