Archaeologists discovered an ancient Mayan mural that contains a calendar, which refutes the idea that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. It looks like we are safe again from another misguided doomsday scenario.

A video camera placed strategically along a forest path in Cameroon (Africa) has caught a band of Cross River gorillas walking past. This rare footage shows these critically endangered gorillas.

A U.S. study has determined that the more effort a person puts into work or play may well be determined by the brain chemical dopamine. Your decision making abilities and your drive to win may be based on this chemical in the brain.

A survey by the independent research organization NORC found that the belief in God was highest in the Philippines and Catholic countries when compared to all regions of the world. However, overall the belief in God was found to be decreasing slowly around the world but not among older people, where faith is still high.

The idea that girls don't do well at math is a myth, at least according to data collected by a team of American researchers. In fact, the problem is not with girls and their ability to do math, but with a perceived bias against these girls by their teachers.

  A well-preserved juvenile woolly mammoth was recently discovered in Siberian ice close to the Arctic Ocean.  

An international team of researchers thinks that, based on their research, early humans began to walk bipedally because of climatic changes. To make this conclusion, they studied wild chimpanzees to see when they walked bipedally and when they didn't.

Traditional medical thinking says women are born with only a certain number of eggs that can be fertilized to produce babies. A team of American/Japanese scientists says this thinking is wrong - that scientists can isolate stem cells so they are able to produce an endless number of immature eggs in the ovaries of women in her reproductive years.

By the end of 2012, Dutch scientists hope to have developed the world's first hamburger grown entirely in a laboratory, what could be called the lab-burger.

You probably have already seen the video of the "supposed" woolly mammoth crossing a Russian river. However, it has come to light that the real (original) author of the video did not film the scene quite the way it was falsely portrayed in the woolly mammoth video hoax.

A study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology answers the question as to why zebras have stripes. The answer by these Hungarian and Swedish researchers may surprise you but, at least, it is a step in the right direction to answer the pressing question: Why do zebras have stripes?

We're not horsen' around here. Popular singer Beyoncé has received a scientific honor. A previously unnamed horse fly has been named after her. And, it's all because the fly is considered the "all time diva of flies."

U.S. researchers at Harvard University have created a soft robot that performs like squid, starfish, and worms - such creatures without hard skeletons. Watch it wiggle around on YouTube.

A long-term study of Danish mobile phone use has unequivocally determined that there is no connection between mobile phone use and various cancers of the brain.  The nay-sayers have rushed to contradict the findings.

A September 2011 published study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, found that if you embarrass easily, then people are more trusting of you.

Sometimes scientific progress comes from the most unexpected of sources.  Molecular biology researchers harness the ingenuity of online gamers to solve a 10-year-old problem.

Following yesterday's unceremonious prod down the stern slide of HMNZS Tangaroa, 'Happy Feet,' the Emperor Penguin who washed up on a New Zealand beach, is on his way south.  Interested penguin followers can follow him using every kind of technology available.  Unfortunately, he doesn't yet have a Facebook page.

After over 130 years of unknowns, the remains of infamous Australian outlaw and folk hero Ned Kelly was confirmed by scientists with the use of forensic techniques.

Scientists have determined that early humans first used fire to cook meals around 1.9 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought.

Researchers have discovered over 20 polar dinosaur tracks in Otways National Park in Australia. The discovery is the largest discovery of polar dinosaur tracks ever found in the Southern Hemisphere.