Mysterious dark streaks on Mars were actually made by BOILING water
Here's something you'd never expect to happen in a place with average temperatures of -67 degrees Fahrenheit -- Mars' flowing...
The one-millionth solar system was installed in the United States
In April, the United States hit an important milestone in the quest for full renewable energy transition after the one-millionth...
The amazing bombardier beetle sprays boiling chemicals from its butt
Animals have evolved all sorts of gimmicks for either attack or defence. Some are really over the top, but that...
The prodigal son returns: tailless comet from Earth’s distant past might hold primordial secrets
A rocky body that's neither exactly a comet nor an asteroid, may hold some interesting clues about how the planets...
Size matters: meet the world’s biggest jet engine
This beast is called GE9X -- the largest jet engine ever built. Standing at 13 feet in diameter, it's wider...
This pot harnesses photosynthesis and a USB port to charge your phone
A team of engineers piggy-backed photosynthesis using a nifty pot called the Bioo Lite. Just place almost any plant inside,...
How scientists are using climate records made by 15th century Japanese monks
If you're old enough, you might remember how some flowers around where you live blossom earlier or that summers and...
How much renewable energy does the world use?
Renewable energy is growing furiously fast.
We still don’t know which gut bacteria is beneficial, but scientists have some good hints
There's good bacteria and bad bacteria, but the gut seems to be so diverse in its bacterial offering from person...
Why we’re in love with anti-heroes
How can some people actually like a serial killer, like Dexter from the eponymous TV show ? What about a...
Climate change is depleting oxygen from the oceans
Scientists have also quantified the effects of climate change as they relate to oxygen depletion. Their analysis suggests that by...
Scientists make the smallest thermometer from programmable DNA
This remarkable research could open the doors for biological thermometers at the nanoscale which might tell us a thing or...
‘Cool’ light improves learning and academic performance. ‘Yellow light’ better for relaxing
A new research investigated various light intensity scenarios and reported their findings. For optimal learning performance, "cool" light is better...
Study following 160,000 children found spanking doesn’t work. On the contrary…
Spanking was associated with a high risk of children defying their parents, becoming aggressive and anti-social. In the long run,...
Soldering at room temperature using metal-liquid particles
“How do you do very high-level science or engineering with very little?” Asks Martin Thuo, an assistant professor of materials...
Water squeezed in a new state: not liquid, nor solid or gas. Just pure quantum weirdness
Physicists have crammed water inside extremely small cracks about ten-billionth of a metre and found the molecules entered a never...
Vegetation on the planet grew by twice the size of mainland USA due to rising CO2 levels
As CO2 builds up in the atmosphere, this warms the planet, acidifies the ocean and melts glaciers. It also promotes...
Bed bugs avoid colours like green and yellow, but love red and black
If you don't want bed bugs biting you, then changing your sheet's colour might help. A recent study found bed...
How A.I. and game theory is fighting poaching and illegal logging
Park rangers risk their lives on a daily basis to protect wildlife from poachers. They're also underfunded and understaffed, so...
How COP21 can become ratified — the small steps required for a global victory
At a high-level signing ceremony in New York, more than 170 countries signed up to the landmark COP21 climate changed...
North American mammoths interbred despite inter-species boundaries
North America was home to several mammoth species, but a new study suggests these weren't that genetically diverse as previously...
Climate change could add twice as many smog days in the United States
A new study suggests that in the United States, residents might experience three to nine more days of unhealthy ozone...
Some sauropod babies looked like adults since they hatched and were left on their own
Sauropods, or some titanosaurs at least, were not the best parents. A recent analysis of juvenile fossils belonging to a...
High-fat diets make you feel sleepy during daytime, ruin sleep at night
Men who consume high-fat diets are far likelier to feel sleepy during the day and sleep poorly at night, researchers...
Genetics determines when you’ll lose your virginity
In a novel study, researchers have identified for the first time the heritable components that influence how early or how...
U.S. Air Force breaks Maglev speed record with a magnetically levitating rocket sled
Engineers at the 846th Test Squadron simply shattered the Maglev record with a sled powered by a very powerful rocket....
First North American monkeys swam across an ancient 100-mile sea from South America
About 21 million years ago, North and South America were separated by an ancient sea called the Miocene Central American...
Ravens score on par with chimps on key cognitive test
Is size all there is to it? As far as the brain is concerned, a recent study that assessed corvid...
What doesn’t kill you, makes your life shorter: Baboons with rough childhoods die earlier
Studies show that childhood trauma like abuse, neglect, physical accidents and other hallmarks put people at greater risk of dying...
Each city might have its own, unique microbes
Each city has its own distinct germ cloud comprised of a unique microbial population and distribution, according to scientists at...
Why you feel like crap when you’re sick
Nothing seems to work when you're sick. When I'm down with the flu, for instance, my muscles ache, my eyes...
Self-healing artificial muscle made at Stanford University
The closest we've come to natural muscles is a novel elastomer developed at Stanford University, Palo Alto that can stretch...
Promising Zn-Mn battery can store a lot of energy, far cheaper than Lithium-ion
Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a way to reliably produce batteries that are very cheap, but can...
Meet the ‘brainprint’: scientists can now identify you with 100% accuracy based on brain waves alone
. In a breakthrough research, a team at Binghamton University showed that it's possible to identify a person with 100...
Mammalian embryos develop in space for the first time
There's confidence that reproducing in space is indeed possible, based on previous research. The most recent experiment made by Chinese...
Too many walls and not enough bridges: US border enforcement backfires heavily
"I will make a GREAT, GREAT wall and make Mexico pay for it," Donald Trump famously said. This is a...
Why is Ernest Hemingway Important? The Most Interesting Man in the World
Ernest Hemingway is famous for being one of the most appreciated American fiction writers. However, his personal life is no...
MIT made an A.I. that detects 85 percent of cyber attacks
Security analysts rely on all sorts of automated software that spots suspicious activity. Even so, an analyst has to churn...
Researchers double WiFi broadband while halving chip size
A new circuit was demonstrated at the 2016 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference this past February that can, among...
Inflatable habitat attached to the ISS. Next, space hotels!
Beam is basically a huge inflatable structure which is easy to carry and provides ample living space for astronauts once...
U.N. countries eager to ratify Paris climate change deal — maybe two years earlier
One week from now, on April 22, officials representing 130 countries are expected at a high-level signing ceremony in New...
The smallest heat engine ever is atom-sized
Heat engines, whether they're as big as a five-story building or as small as an atom, operate using the same...
Microsoft’s new A.I. writes captions for images (and it’s hilarious)
We tested Microsoft's CaptionBot and had some laughs.
Gem diamonds and ‘worthless’ ones likely have the same origin
The prettiest carbon allotropes of them all, diamonds have fascinated royalty, collectors and window shoppers since ancient times. Some gem-grade...
Humans gave Neanderthals herpes, tapeworms and a slew of tropical diseases
Westerners are horror-struck by the prospect of an Ebola or Zika pandemic in their very own neighbourhood. Media panic aside,...
Gamers help solve quantum physics problem where A.I. failed
After an A.I. beat the human champion at Go, a game almost infinitely more complex than chess, some might feel...
Does speed-reading really work? Not if you want to understand anything
What if you could read a book three times faster? That definitely sounds appealing, which si why speed-reading training and,...
Billionaire Sean Parker donates $250 million to accelerate breakthrough cancer immunotherapies
A Silicon Valley billionaire who made a fortunate investing in Facebook wants to beat cancer once and for all.
You’ve heard all about solar cells, but what about bacterial solar cells?
On the desk of Seokheun "Sean" Choi sits a 3x3 array that at first glance looks like a lemon squeezer....
Beautiful symmetry — 3D reconstructions of viruses
Designer/molecular biologist Eleanor Lutz is back with yet another awesome science feature: virus trading cards.