Extreme weather from past decade linked to global warming
In the year 2011 alone, the US faced 14 extreme weather events, while Japan registered record rainfalls and the Yangtze river...
ISS crew took to their escape pods this weekend after space debris collision alert
This Friday, ground mission control ordered the current stationed astronaut crew at the International Space Station to head for the...
Tap into the cockroach’s neural activity with the SpikerBox
Neurons are the absolute core components of the nervous system that transmit...
Memories are stored in specific brain cells, MIT Inception-like research finds
When the brain deems an experience meaningful enough, it...
SpaceX founder promises $500,000 there and back trips to Mars
[caption id="attachment_12302" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The Dragon capsule, a reusable spacecraft developed by SpaceX, set to dock with the International Space...
Robot jellyfish that runs on hydrogen can swim forever in the ocean
After a three year effort, researchers at Virginia Tech have successfully managed to create a silicone robot that functions underwater by...
Supersonic biplane design cancels sonic boom effect
The now retired Concorde turbojets were the fastest civilian airliners in the world, capable of carrying passengers from Paris to...
Complete geological map of Io reveals incredible volcanic surface
Since it was first discovered more than four hundred years ago by Galileo Galilei, Jupiter's innermost moon Io has played...
Human ancestors started walking on two legs to carry more scarce resources, study suggests
One of the biggest anthropological mysteries scientists have been trying to unravel is the long put question of how did...
Most detailed photo of the Apollo 11 lunar landing site released [visible astronaut footprints]
July 20th, 1969 marked the day man first set foot on the moon, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gracefully...
China’s eco-city of the future hints towards its green turnaround
China is the most pollutant country in the world, and as it continues to develop industrially, one can only expect...
Honeybee dying population linked to pesticide
We've reported in the past about the frightening, ever growing cases of honeybee population dye-offs of the past few years,...
Earth’s prehistoric atmosphere was covered in a haze similar to Saturn’s moon, Titan
If you think today's urban air, thickened with noxious smog, is terrible, just imagine how the Earth was filled in...
The LINK Solar Tower Skyscraper: a green symbol in the middle of Italy’s most polluted area, near Venice
Just came by this architectural solution proposed by LED Architecture Studio for revitalizing Italy's most polluted area, the industrial town of Marghera,...
Not that fast: neutrinos shown to travel at sub-light speed, refuting controversial claims
[caption id="attachment_12185" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The ICARUS detector in Gran Sasso, Italy, also part of CERN, measured neutrinos and found they...
No more worries – computer simulation shows nuclear bomb can save Earth from an asteroid
The plot of the Hollywood blockbuster flick Armageddon is fairly simple - a giant asteroid is hurling towards Earth, threatening...
Mysterious hominid fossils found in China hint towards a new human species
[caption id="attachment_12169" align="alignnone" width="460" caption="A skull from a specimen, recovered from Longlin cave in China, belonging to the Red Deer...
Software partnership makes online fundraising easier
Online charity will get even simpler, as Mineris Solutions, one of the most important payment processors in North America, and...
Earliest animal with a skeleton discovered, pre-Cambrian
The Cambrian era marked a profound change on life on Earth, sparking the rapid development of complex organisms and a...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains why “we stopped dreaming”
An emotional video collage of talks made by Neil Degrasse Tyson dissing the current poor attention NASA has been receiving,...
