The green algae street lamps that suck up CO2
I've been recently flooded with emails, questions and Facebook posts with the algae street lamps that not only light up...
Dr. Andrei Mihai is a geophysicist and founder of ZME Science. He has a Ph.D. in geophysics and archaeology and has completed courses from prestigious universities (with programs ranging from climate and astronomy to chemistry and geology). He is passionate about making research more accessible to everyone and communicating news and features to a broad audience.
I've been recently flooded with emails, questions and Facebook posts with the algae street lamps that not only light up...
Tesla's newest up-and-coming building could be larger than previously thought - much larger. At a presentation about the Tahoe Reno...
China Caves 2012 / Hong Meigui Expedition to explore giant caves in Wulong County. Robbie Shone is one of the...
Norwegian Archaeologists have unearthed a unique Viking grave dated 1040 AD. Within the grave they found coins, a battle ax...
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Tony Abbott, the Australian PM has been warned he is putting international investment at risk after ordering the $10 billion Clean...
Most days are windy in Denmark, but Thursday was unusually so - it was so windy that the country got...
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“Decarbonising the World's Economy” Editors: Terry Barker, Douglas Crawford Brown Imperial College Press, 376pp | Buy on Amazon We have...
Yesterday, we presented an article in which we detailed the claims of two astronomers, Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology...
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Adidas new shoes are trash - literally. The German company has announced the creation of a new type of shoes...
Germany is taking some serious strides in its attempt to reduce carbon emissions by 40 percent until 2020: the European...
Something as simple as eating more leafy veggies could significantly slow down cognitive decline and keep your brain healthier for...
According to an unusual study conducted by University of Vermont researchers, people with blue eyes may be more likely to...
Spiders are more adaptable than we give them credit for, and they can make pretty good sailors - a new...
Remember the Koch brothers? They're industrialists and businesspeople who own the second largest privately owned company in the United States...
We come to you today with something a bit different than what we usually do - a new, creative way...
The American Museum of Natural History has released a set of postcards you can buy when you visit them - The...
A startup will allow voluntary internet detectives to study unusual medical cases and attempt to solve them. Millions of people suffer...
Call it Beercycling - gallons of beer-urine will be used to fertilize barley, which will ultimately become beer, and then urine again....
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected a proposal to list North American wild horses as threatened or endangered, arguing...
Seemingly small and delicate, seahorses are actually much more resilient than they look. Engineers have demonstrated that the seahorses' prism-like tails...
Environmentalists and engineers have often argued against golf courses (especially abandoned golf courses), considering them a waste of space and...
A new hi-tech mirror allows clients to see how they would look like in different outfits, without having to actually...
As the US starts to thaw its relationship with Cuba, important economy, touristic and cultural prospects start to emerge; but...
Saber-tooth cats, the bane of early humans (and pretty much every creature that co-existed with them), roamed the Earth for...
It's the kind of error you never want to pop up in your code: Google’s automatic image recognition software has...
Samantha Cristoforetti, an astronaut currently on board the International Space Station was allowed to take some extra food with her...
The Germany city of Karlsruhe celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2015, and they wanted to do something special to commemorate...
Joining sounds together to create a meaningful language was thought to be a human characteristic, but a new study published...
Deep below ground level, 3,500 feet (1000 meters) down a Croatian cave, scientists have discovered a new species of centipede....
The Great Wall of China, one of the most marvelous constructions on Earth is slowly fading away due to the...
It's so simple and incredibly useful I can't believe no one developed it before - a way to give leftover...
Whether it's Meatless Monday, Weekday Vegetarianism or simply cutting down meat consumption - people from developed countries are eating less meat,...
Among the many tools it has in its arsenal, cancer is also very good at hiding - so good that...
In a paper published this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of scientists explain the...
A soap bubble is a very thin sheet of water sandwiched between two layers of soap molecules. They are an...
Paleontologists working in China have discovered fossils of an impressively armored worm that lived during the Cambrian, 500 million years...
By now, we've all hopefully at least heard of graphene, the new wonder material that promises to revolutionize a swarm...
You wouldn't expect a dog and a turtle to be best friends, but as we've learned on the Internet, the...