People pick up and use discarded USB drives they find almost half the time
Portable data storage, such as USB drives, might not be quite as useful or sought after as they once were...
Composite metal foam better at stopping bullets than solid plates
Composite metal foam (CMF) is light, but strong -- it can even stop bullets!
White Nose Bat Syndrome spreads deeper into the U.S. — first case confirmed west of the Rockies
The first case of white nose syndrome, a disease that has wreaked havoc on bat populations in the eastern U.S....
NASA plans to make airplanes cleaner and 50% more fuel efficient by reviving the wing truss
NASA plans to improve today's planes with a blast from the past -- re-implementing a structure known as a wing...
NOAA photographs golden retrievers swimming back home from their mating run
NOAA has released a photograph of this year's golden retriever migration. The animals are returning to shore after their mating...
Researchers on the hunt for students’ junk-food-gene
Takeout, instant noodles and cheap beer -- the only known organisms able to survive solely on these three items are...
The “war on drugs” has only harmed human rights and public health — not supply and demand
A new report questions the legitimacy of today's "War on Drugs," seeing as the five-decade long process has failed to...
The cake isn’t a lie — but the nutritional value on the box definitely is
Food packaging does influence the amount of calories consumed, a new study found. By showing portion sizes much larger than...
KTH researchers develop transparent wood for use in building and solar panels
Wood, one of the cheapest and most widely used construction materials humanity has ever employed, has just had its range...
India’s Bakey edible spoon does two of my favorite things: limits dishes and plastic waste
India-based company Bakeys has started producing edible spoons to try and fight world-wide plastic waste from disposable cutlery. Not only...
New plasma printing technique can deposit nanomaterials on flexible, 3D substrates
A new nanomaterial printing method could make it both easier and cheaper to create devices such as wearable chemical and...
A radioactive couple: the glowing legacy of the Curies
Together, these two brilliant people forever changed how we understand the world we live in. They did so at a...
Canadian Food Agency approves the sale of Simplot’s Innate potato in Canada
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CIFA) and Health Canada have approved Simplot's genetically engineered Innate potato for sale throughout the...
Viking treasure pot, opened more than 1,000 years after it was hidden in modern Galloway
The first images of Viking treasure, stashed in a pot more than 1,000 years ago and buried in a field...
Europe might lose its ash trees forever
Europe is likely to lose all its ash trees, the largest-ever survey of the species warns. Plagued by both a...
Nano-enhanced textiles could lead us to a brighter future with no laundry
Tired of laundry day? Pioneering nano research into self-cleaning textiles could soon make cleaning your clothes as easy as hanging...
Slow-Life time lapse video gives a beautiful glimpse into the life of corals
If you've ever seen one up close you probably know that corals are insanely beautiful, but not exactly action packed...
Climate change is impacting wine grape harvest dates in Switzerland and France, NASA finds
A new collaboration study between NASA and Harvard University found that climate change is breaking an important link between droughts...
The Most Wanted Fungi list compiled to guide mycologists’ research efforts
Faced with the underwhelming speed at which the scientific community studies and describes fungi, a group of researches put together...
Bread mold could build the batteries of the future
A study into a strain of red bread mold could revolutionize our rechargeable battery technology. The paper's findings could be...
All of 2015’s weather, in a stunning 4K time-lapse video.
The European Meteorological Satellite Organization (EUMETSAT) in collaboration with the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
This is how one French power plant produces electricity using cheese
The town of Albertville in southeastern France has begun using cheese to generate electricity. Their power plant, build in the...
Heavy marijuana users process stressful stimuli similarly to those with an anxiety disorder
Heavy marijuana users react to anxiety-inducing stimuli similarly to people diagnosed with anxiety disorders, a new study found. The results...
Islamic art inspires metamaterial that grows when stretched
A new type of metamaterial that can grow when stretched, with possible applications for medical equipment and satellites, was inspired...
The Crunch Effect — how listening to your chewing can help you lose weight
The sounds you make while chewing have a significant effect on the amount of food you eat, a new study...
New SARS-like virus can jump directly to humans from bats
A virus similar to SARS has been identified in Chinese horseshoe bats that may be able to infect humans without...
Biological wheels and motors imaged for the first time
Morgan Beeby and his colleagues at the Imperial College London used electron microscopy to image these biological motors in high...
More than 13 million Americans could be at risk from sea level rise by 2100
A new study analyzing sea level rise forecasts as well as population growth projections found that we've underestimated just how...
No web, no worries — spiders also like to eat vegetarian
Spiders' diets aren't limited to juicy insect bits. They spice up their menus with vegetarian courses too, zoologists from the...
Research team grows “dinosaur legs” on a chicken for the first time
Researchers have manipulated the genome of chicken embryos so that they develop dinosaur-like bones in their lower legs.
Evolution selects the most effective genes — even by a hundredth of a percent
A new study measuring the forces that shape bacterial genomes determined that a difference in efficiency of hundredth of a...
Religious attendance in the US follows the same trend as everywhere else — downwards
Religiousness in the Unites States is on the decline, mirroring patterns seen across the western world a new study from...
How the American diet leaves people both overfed and undernourished at the same time
More than half of American's calories come from ultra-processed foods, a new study finds. The data also indicates close to...
Not all computer keys are made equal, and that’s a good thing
Hands up anyone who, like me, has ever wondered what the deal is with those little bumps on your F...
Hubble captures the death of a star, offering a glimpse of our sun’s final days
A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into...
Study hints at a form of bacterial collective memory
A new study found that whole populations of bacteria retain their tolerance to stressors for a much longer duration than...
This protein might be the key to developing the fabled slim-pill — that actually works
An international team has discovered that by inhibiting Gq protein production in adipose tissue, cells can be re-purposed from storing...
The circle of life shows how all of the 2.3 million known species fit together
The latest, most complete tree is the result of a three-year effort by researchers from over a dozen institutions from...
Young children may benefit from playing video games
Researchers found a positive association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children's mental health as well...
Is the impact of climate change on agriculture underestimated?
A new paper suggests that we've been overlooking how two key human responses to climate -- the total area farmed...
Radar-suppression meta-skin could be the first step towards an invisibility cloak
Iowa State University engineers have created a flexible, tunable "meta-skin," a material that uses rows of liquid-metal devices to cloak...
This is Tomatan, and he will power you through a marathon — with tomatoes
Awesome? Undoubtedly. Useful? Well, according to Kagome, which claims to be Japan's largest supplier of ketchup and tomato juice, people...
UK set to unveil the world’s largest floating solar array
The largest floating solar array in the world is to be unveiled later this month, on the Queen Elizabeth II...
This one amoeba could hold the secret to fixing immune deficiencies in humans
These predatory amoebas are usually very good at finding enough to eat by themselves, but when food is short they...
Fungus turns frogs into sex zombies, but then kills off whole species
A new study of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a deadly fungus which affects amphibians worldwide, found that it spreads by making...
How planetary rings form and what they’re made of
Learn more about how they formed billions of year ago.
People spend more on climate adaptability to protect capital, not lives
A research team from University College in London has calculated that in the last five years, the ten biggest cities...
Robotic third arm puts your drumming into overdrive…kinda
The focus point of prosthetics today is, understandably, restoring ability, function and form to those who have lost a limb....
MIT develops new solar cells, 400 times more efficient and light enough to drape a soap bubble
An MIT research team has developed a new technology that will allow for the creation of lighter and thinner solar cells...
Quantum dot technology breakthrough brings it one step closer to a screen near you
A team from Cornell University’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has found a way to arrange quantum dots together...