Check out the world’s first 3D electronics printer
I love disruptive technologies, and 3D printing is undoubtedly one of the leading such movements in the 21st century. This...
How household vinegar could help save the Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef, which stretches 2,000km (1,200 miles) along the coast, is the world’s largest living ecosystem. Yet it's...
Almost $2.6 trillion divested from fossil fuel since the movement began
A while ago I wrote about how the fossil fuel divestment movement is gathering a huge momentum, as more and...
A simple coating cools solar panels by reflecting the heat into outer space
No kidding, Stanford researchers actually showed it's possible to cool solar panels by applying a special coating that reflects some...
If Moore’s law applied to life, then it should be 10bn years old. But the Earth is 4.5bn years old. Hum…
Some researchers have made an interesting connection: if you measure the complexity of life or how big the genome is...
3D stacked computer chips could make computers 1,000 times faster
Computer chips today have billions of tiny transistors just a few nanometers wide (a hair is 100nm thick), all crammed...
The reason why we haven’t heard from aliens yet is encryption, Edward Snowden says
The biggest pariah of the century, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, had a "geek to geek" hour long talk with Neil...
Mother Earth: photo-documented from space by astronaut Scott Kelly
Veteran astronaut Scott Kelly launched in March, 2015 aboard a Soyuz rocket for a record breaking one-year stay at the...
UK scientists want to modify genes inside a human embryo
A team working at the Francis Crick Institute in London applied to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a...
Maps that explain today’s major migration routes
Syrian refugees are making headlines all over the world, but while their story is worth covering, there are millions other...
Pharma startup raised the price for a life-saving drug from $13.5 a tablet to $750
A dubious pharmaceutical startup recently bought the rights to a drug that treats a parasitic infection, then raised the price...
What is metal glass: the wonder material you’ve never heard of
Such materials combine the best properties of glass and metals into one amazing product.
Today’s GOP candidates don’t deny climate change anymore, but think it’s useless to act instead
This Wednesday, Sen. Marco Rubio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker were engaged in a two...
Is landing SpaceX’s Falcon 9 reusable rocket easy? Play this video game first
This may be the most annoying video game in history.
Air pollution kills 3.3 million yearly, but could double by 2050
The most detail study of its kind found air pollution is responsible 3.3 million premature deaths. Based on current trends...
World’s most useless scientific discoveries [infographic]
Every year, the Ig Nobel Prize is awarded to ten lucky winners. To qualify, you need to publish research in...
The mass of a supermassive black hole relative to the Sun explained in one crazy GIF
While the name might fool you at first glace, black holes are anything but empty.
Ultrasounds used to control neurons in a worm’s brain for the first time
By 'tickling' select membrane channels you can effectively control neurons, by activating or deactivating cells. You can do this using...
Researchers devise first electric circuit with a magnetic insulator, which was thought to be impossible
A team of Dutch and Belgian researchers demonstrated an electric circuit coupled with a magnetic insulator. The circuit uses so-called...
Pest-controlling Bats provide a service worth at least $1 billion to farmers
Corn farmers around the world owe bats at least $1 billion, seeing how they ward off pests like insects. The...
Beneath Enceladus’ icy crust lies a global ocean of liquid water
Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is covered in a thick icy crust, but beneath it might lie an ocean of liquid water...
Doctors transplant world’s first 3-D printed rib cage
Reconstructive surgery just got an upgrade after a patient who had lost four ribs and part of his sternum had a...
This cheap catalyst might finally make the hydrogen economy work
Hydrogen is a great medium for storing energy. It can be used as an alternative to batteries to store the...
It’s not just the genes: zebra finches show love is essential too
Love is complicated enough, even without intense scrutiny from scientists. Do we fall in love with someone because we find...
Almost total silence: acoustic absorber cancels 99.7% of sound
We all need a bit of quiet in our lives sometimes, but have you ever took a minute to ponder...
Oil producers in Canada are closing their taps – probably among the first of many
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the slumping price of oil - the lowest in six years -...
No matter how hard you try, all your movements are plain lazy. Blame your brain
Humans are naturally lazy, as they'll always find a way to execute a movement, even a simple act like walking,...
Americans get a D in science
According to a report issued by the Pew Research Center, American adults have a sub-par knowledge of basic science. The...
The chemistry lab glassware that changed science forever, but no one remembers anymore
This fashionable triangle-shaped glassware isn't an office decoration, but a true vestige of the early analytical chemistry. It's called the...
Blood test might diagnose all forms of cancer
A promising diagnosis test can accurately detect cancer in 7 out of 10 patients just by reading telltale genetic mutations...
Solar cells twist and turn to catch more sun during the day
An innovative 'kirigami' design allows solar cells to flex and twist to follow the sun throughout the day. This means 20...
Elon Musk: Nuke the Martian poles to terraform it faster
Shipping cyanobacteria to Mars or dumping greenhouse gas into its thin atmosphere might be too slow. Elon Musk is in...
National Geographic just got bought by Rupert Murdoch, the mogul who thinks climate change isn’t real
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who owns among other things Fox News, also known as the most despicable garbage journalism...
New human ancestor, Homo naledi, discovered in a hidden pit, deep inside a South African cave
A daring team of researchers squeezed themselves through a long vertical chute and descended some 40 meters beneath the surface....
US solar power is growing fast and set for new record in 2015
On an explosive growth trajectory, the total operational solar photovoltaic capacity in the US just passed the 20 GW milestone...
Basque people, who to this day speak a prehistoric language, came from early Iberic farmers
Basques - an ethnic group from modern day Spain - were thought to be direct descendants of hunter-gatherers who had...
Sperm whales clans have different dialects
A insightful incursion into the lives of sperm whales shows just how similar these gentle marine giants are to us....
Seals and bacteria are leaching mercury even in unpolluted waters
Researchers detected unusually high levels of toxic metals, including the dangerous neurotoxin methylmercury, in a pristine coastal area and lake....
How high tech analytics and Internet of Things might change NFL forever
Networked gadgets and gizmos embedded in every day items - collectively known as the Internet of Things - are beginning...
The oldest galaxy we’ve come across might re-write the way we think the early cosmos evolved
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope jointly used their instruments to identify the oldest galaxy yet seen....
Only 8.2% of our DNA is actually useful, the rest is ‘junk’ apparently
It's been only a decade since the Human Genome Project finished its task of mapping all the code that makes...
Drug reverses Alzheimer’s effects in rats
There's no cure for Alzheimer's - the devastating neurodegenerative disease which causes progressive dementia in 5.3 million Americans - only...
Tesla vs Edison reloaded: this time, it’s the hydrogen vs electric car battle
This is the biggest news that no one seems to notice. Sunvault Energy and the Edison Power Company quietly announced...
Social skills are more important than ever in the labor market
The rate of growth in the number of high paying jobs in the US has steadily declined since 2000, which...
Music sounds better on LSD, study finds
The right music can evoke powerful emotions seemingly out of the blue, but under the influence of LSD the musical...
Magnetic wormhole demonstrated for the first time
A wormhole - a tunnel that connects two distant region in space by creating a shortcut through the spacetime -...
Powder caffeine overdose risks prompts FDA to issue letter of warning to producers
Americans' love affair with coffee has turned into an obsession. More than half report drinking coffee at least 3.1 cups...
Self-healing bioplastic stitches itself back together when water is added
When your plastic device breaks, there's basically nothing else to do but shrug, try to glue it then go on...
NASA plans hitching rides on comets to explore the solar system
It's ludicrous, but it might just be crazy enough to work. On Monday, during the American Institute of Aeronautics and...
‘Solar suflower’ array generates 60 times more power than a typical solar panel
An innovative concentrated solar power design called the "Solar Sunflower" was recently demonstrated by Swiss researchers at Airlight Energy and...