What happens when NASA and IBM sponsor a hackathon and offer their infrastructure to 10,000 researchers, coders, entrepreneurs end educators?...

The future is here - scientists at a Polish company have developed a liquid body armor. Technically speaking, it's a...

This hybrid image combines low spatial components of a photo of Marilyn Monroe and high spatial frequency components of an...

What do fires and deep sounds have in common? Not much right now, but they might have a lot in...

Tesla Motors are out to change the world - and they're doing it fast, and in style. Like many other...

In a rather intriguing tweet, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that he will end 'range anxiety' by...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded a project which promises to become the quickest two-legged robot in...

Switching massively to electric cars could save UK drivers up to £1,000 a year on fuel costs, reducing oil imports...

A study conducted on a small number of men concluded that the "love hormone" oxytocin may reduce appetite, helping men...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Google reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature that they...

It's pretty scary what modern medicine can do these days. Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy...

A novel type of nanowire crystals was demonstrated by researchers at the University of Copenhagen that can fuse together both semiconductor...

More than 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to clean water, making them vulnerable to diseases. To help address...

It's not Jedi technology, but it's pretty close - scientists and students from China have devised an umbrella that eliminates...

Some findings are just counterintuitive. I mean, you'd think that adding water to materials would always make them softer, right...

The United States Department of Defense just demonstrated one of the scariest weapons ever - a 'magic bullet' that can change...

Hundreds of millions of people all over the world are medically blind, while many more are in the process of turning...

3D printing is changing our lives - we're seeing it already. Basically any household item can be 3D printed, and cheaper; in...

An indigenous leader of the Shuar people who was openly opposing a major mining project in Ecuador has been found bound...

An IBM team analyzed a sample of discarded batteries and found that they can still be used and can still...

A team of researchers from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has revealed how the atomic structure of proteins changes during photosynthesis using...

The University of Texas at Austin is missing about 100 brains, about one half of the entire collection from the...

Charle's Darwin's original notes during which he first scribbled down the ideas which led to evolution have been digitized and...

An Israeli company has developed a battery that can charge a smartphone in just 30 seconds; to make things even more...

When I first heard about 3-D printing, I was completely stoked. The whole concept blew me away and changed forever...

A 20-year-old algorithm that demonstrated the benefit of using quantum mechanics to solve certain problems has finally been run on...

In the movie "Enemy of State", the character played by Will Smith is located by the NSA by an advanced satellite...

An initial study has shown that a vaccine against Hep C currently in clinical trials is effective and also safe...

If you're reading this, then obviously you can read in English (at least partially); but a big part of English...

There's an immense well of information humanity is currently sitting on and it's only growing exponentially. To make sense of...

A permanent vaccine for hookworm has passed clinical trials. The hookworm is one of the most pervasive parasites, affecting over...

A team of scientists has managed to develop a tractor beam which can pull and push objects over 20 cm...

When you think about changing colors, the word 'chameleon' usually comes to mind. But there are other animals which can...

With a simple phone app you can donate your idle phone time to science; and if researchers decide to use...

A mantis shrimp's compound eyes are 'superbly tuned' to detect polarised light. Image: Roy Caldwell The Mantis Shrimp has some...

Inspired by the properties of the human eye, physicists have created a processor that can analyze sub-atomic particles 400 times...

Audi announced that it will be the first auto manufacturer to receive an autonomous driving permit from the state of...

In today's world, silicon has few materials which actually contest its status as the king of electronics. However, that may...

Human face traits are so diverse because of evolutionary pressure, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Photo:...

A software corrects blur and makes photos taken with the same smartphone a lot clearer and sharper. The technology allows...

Image via Yerka. Depending on where you live, bike stealing can be a distant threat or a constant worry, but...

Chemists led by Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless have used what is called click chemistry to uncover unprecedented, powerful reactivity. This opens...

China is experiencing the worst drought in over 50 years, threatening the country's foo security for the first time in...

Among the main arguments of hydraulic fracking proponents is the claim that fracking does nothing to threaten drinking water supply,...

Maryam Mirzakhani, who was born and raised in Iran, has been awarded the highest honour a mathematician can attain: the...

Brown University researchers reported the development of a copper foam which could turn CO2 into useful chemicals such as formic...

Imaging the fine and intricate structures of blood vessels in the human body is paramount to modern anatomy. By knowing the...