Fossil Fuel divestment movement gathers Momentum
Ever more municipalities and universities have joined the call to divest fossil fuel, thus reinforcing the message that these institutions...
Tibi is a science journalist and co-founder of ZME Science. He writes mainly about emerging tech, physics, climate, and space. In his spare time, Tibi likes to make weird music on his computer and groom felines. He has a B.Sc in mechanical engineering and an M.Sc in renewable energy systems.
Ever more municipalities and universities have joined the call to divest fossil fuel, thus reinforcing the message that these institutions...
In 2003, Dr. Lihong V. Wang at Washington University introduced one of the most exciting technologies we've had the chance to...
Some of us like to think that the energy needs of the future will be supplied by clean and renewable...
Austrian researchers at the Vienna Univ. of Technology (TU Wien) made just two photons interact with each other, a major feat...
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On Tuesday, Google's head of life sciences inside the company’s Google X research lab reported a new exciting project that involves...
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A group from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France, and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has made a...
Developing countries are catching up fast and there's a lot the rich can learn, especially in terms of energy. A...
An American national study that looked at hospital emergency department visits for opioid overdoses found that 67.8% of the cases involved...
An UK design firm is proposing a most daring idea: replace the windows in a plane with super-light smartscreen panel...
The most complex computer simulation of its kind to date suggests that melting Arctic ice is significantly contributing to extreme...
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Topping conventional thinking, a new study found that making mistakes while learning can benefit memory, but only when the wrong...
A notebook that laid under the cover of Antarctic ice for the past 100 years was discovered by Newzealand’s Antarctic...
Friday morning, EU leaders finally reached an agreement for its 2030 energy target - member states have all agreed to...
Climate Matters is a fabulous and short read that tries to tackle an extremely complex subject, bringing focus and much...
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European Union leaders are currently meeting in Brussels to discuss the terms under which the Union will set its 2030 energy...
A team at MIT has developed a prediction algorithm that allows them to determine when the price of the infamous...
Life on Earth has so far passed through five distinct crises that threatened to wipe it out, typically referred to...
Suni, a 37-year-old northern white rhino and only the second male of his kind left in the world, died recently of natural...
Regeneration of the spinal chord following a paralyzing injury was thought to be impossible, but groundbreaking efforts stirred by surgeons...
What does the environment mean to you? The European Environment Agency asked this question and invited photographers to have their...
A highly fascinating and, surprisingly for some, practical new line of research is concerned with programmable materials; composites designed to become...
Paleontologists have identified the first known animals that used internal fertilization instead of spawning - armor-coated swimmers, called antiarchs, which lived...
Researchers at the University of Bristol used a complex computer simulation to determine how enzymes in bacteria breakdown antibiotics, rendering...
A team at University of Cambridge have harvested so-called ‘dark’ spin-triplet excitons with close to 100% efficiency, a breakthrough achievement which...
Image: Peratech While robots today have become more adapted, they're still essentially stupid - limited to a particular pre-programmed series...
We rarely get to showcase talent such as Agnes Denes, a visionary who blends mathematics, philosophy and art. Today, you're...
It's common knowledge that babies born out of tall parents will most likely grow to be just as tall, but it's only...
The ocean abyss hasn't warmed significantly since 2005, according to a new NASA study, further deepening the mystery of why global...
We talk a lot about science and research, but we don’t spend enough time talking about the people who actually...
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has released a new map of the world's seafloor - the first in...
An innovative research posits that cancer may actually be a sort of 'safe mode' mechanism, akin to how a computer's...
Chimps, our closest relatives, can pass down knowledge and skills, like using a new tool for instance, and establish cultural...
Researchers at MIT report they've developed a novel material that can absorb almost all incoming wavelengths of light and convert...
Every year, the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) in Copenhagen welcomes renowned designers and engineers to submit designs that integrates...
New research suggests that plankton, like this adult brine shrimp, could play an important role in mixing oceans.
Some people tend to believe that today's society is excessively being eaten up by cancer, which is true to a...
Some 100,000 people die each year from venomous snakes bites. Most die because there's not enough antivenom.
Neanderthals were one of the early hominids who used Levallois technique to make stone tools. Image: Prisma/UIG/Getty A breakthrough finding...
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a new exoplanet - a planet from outside our solar system...
Often called a "Digital Age Leonardo da Vinci", Alexander Tsiaras is a digital innovator, technologist and artist. You might know him...
It's not called colossal for nothing. Photo: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Smaller, yet heavier then their legendary...
Artist impression of a possible space elevator - the image in question show the new diamond-like nanomaterial in action, though....
Gut bacteria may influence what we want to eat. GIF: University of California Our gut hosts an enormous population of...
A new sign language that's only recently emerged in an isolated community is unlike anything linguistics have been used to.
Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur that possibly had the largest nose in prehistory. Ironically, it didn't have a keen...
Environmental groups were outraged when Google announced in 2013 that it would fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a well...