A new investigation has revealed that the Stanford Prison experiment was deeply flawed. The 1971 exercise involved the placing of college students in a mock prison. The students then changed to become aggressive guards and ...

One question that has been troubling NASA is why there has been a sudden rise in the moon’s temperature to about 2 degrees Celsius soon after the first astronauts planted their flags there. In the ...

There is continuous bombarding of the planets and moons in the solar system by particles thrown away from the sun. There is hardly any effect on Earth apart from the intriguing northern lights particularly because ...

NASA’s latest Curiosity rover recently discovered ancient traces of organic substances attached to Martian rocks and identified a seasonal variation in atmospheric methane on the planet; an indication that there could be a living thing. ...

The so-called ‘alien asteroid’ is the first known, permanent resident of our solar system that originated from a different star system. The object, which orbits in the same path as Jupiter but in the opposite ...

Scientists have successfully trained a spider to jump on command, helping them to study the arachnids’ natural movement. The diminutive spider which has been named Kim is able to jump six times her own body ...

A newly developed robot geologist carrying a quake monitor and a hammer lifted off towards the red planet on Saturday with the intent of exploring the interior of Mars’ rocky surface. To take advance of ...

The British Overseas Territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic seems to have successfully eradicated its rat problem in history’s largest rodent extermination program ever conducted. A recent survey of the island failed to ...