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The United Kingdom will almost certainly miss its 2020 targets for renewable energy, the National Grid has said.
The $2 testing device, about the size of a soda can, does not require electricity or technical expertise to use.
The black shroud above the Rio Olympics looms bigger and darker.
A skull fragment found in an old Buddhist temple is believed to have belonged to Buddha.
Gastronomy is becoming more of a science and less of an art with each passing day, but there are some foods which are just downright unreasonably expensive.
We've talked about 3D printing being useful in fields like engineering or medicine, but in the right hands it can create amazing pieces of art and bring back to life creatures gone for hundreds of millions of years.
Scientists found a strange correlation between hot women and condom usage
Most of the world's greenhouse gas comes from cities - and that's where we have to act.
In America, walkable neighborhoods are a privilege of the rich and educated.
This is some scary stuff.
Things are about to get much worse.
This could be a game changer for women.
It works 100 times more efficiently than your laptop.
You just can't brush off this technology.
A color with the appropriately dull name of Pantone 448C has been identified by researchers as the ugliest color in existence.
After studying prairie dogs for 25 years, one researcher believes he figured out what prairie dogs are communicating about. He believes that the animals are not only very efficient communicators, but they also have an eye for details. Gunnison’s prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) is one of five species of the prairie dog. Their name is […]
Take a moment to consider that the first space flights, both for the Soviets and for NASA, took place way before computers.
For all its beauty, amethyst is a fairly common variety of quartz. This here isn’t even a particularly special image, it’s how amethyst looks like most of the time. What is it about this mineral that makes it so special? Quartz itself is the second-most-abundant mineral in Earth’s crust. Amethyst is one of the more common […]
Higher qualifications, fewer jobs. What's happening?
It's simple, easy, and they've been doing it for centuries!
They may be more common than we thought.
The golden age of black oil is ending says a new report
The Nigerian prince is in trouble!
Children judge a book by its cover.
Who needs Indiana Jones?
It was a cute rodent, off the northern coast of Australia, on an island by the Great Barrier Reef. Now it's gone, because of us.
It's good news for us, but perhaps not good news for the rodents.
Norway is killing more whales than Japan and Iceland combined.
It's surreal and it doesn't make much sense, but it's definitely intriguing.
The system is abusing all of us.
It's a reveal which unfortunately surprises no one.
All your girlfriends are belong to me.
‘Theoretically the stuff is still edible - but we wouldn’t say it’s advisable’
The fact that people still debate the effectiveness of vaccines is ridiculous.
Rhapta was one of the most prosperous cities on the African coast, and one of the last trading posts of the Roman Empire.
We're still uncovering the secrets of the building blocks of life.
Things are looking bad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
They're using the people we like to sell us things that aren't good for us.
China is drastically accelerating its efforts to build a deep-sea research platform - but they aren't doing it for the science.
It's one of the strangest experiment ever devised, and it may very well revolutionize science.
A 25-year-old from the US has been living without a heart for more than a year.
Wearable tech could save the hearing of thousands of soldiers.
With a potential ZIka pandemic luring over the Americas, one Long Island town is stepping up to bat.
It's just the early stages, but there's a glimmer of hope.
Our brain may be downplaying other people to save your relationship.
There's just not enough fiber in our diets.
We may actually get to see a black hole!
This is the Apollo Guidance Computer's read-only rope memory. That's right -- memory literally made from hand-woven rope. Depending on how the rope was knit, a software program could be initiated.
There's no need to panic though.
Norway wants to make all cars electric in the next decade.
