Biofuels aren’t so green after all
Biofuels are considered one of the leading alternative fuels on the market right now, because of their lower impact on...
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.
Biofuels are considered one of the leading alternative fuels on the market right now, because of their lower impact on...
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Part of an ambitious NASA survey over the Antarctic, which intends on 3D mapping the continent's glaciers in detail, one...
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A biblical-like creature has sprung out into the world recently, when a two-headed albino milk snake was born - an...
In just a few hours, at 5 p.m. EDT, China will make another giant leap forward in its ever ambitious space...
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I'm a bit of a stand-up comedy fan, and no too long ago I used to gobble up anything Comedy...
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The art of science is most evident when one manages to accurately assert truths about a given fact with little...
Hypnosis has been considered for the past 250 years by the scientific community as being nothing more than a cute...
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A new study published by researchers at University of Hong Kong has produced controversial waves among the astronomy community, as...
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In the new mobile information age where smartphones have become an ever common part of our lives, there seems to...
Researchers at Linköping University have taken up themselves to study the intricate personality of the sperm donor. What they found...
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Looks like one of NASA's latest priorities is to protect its lunar heritage from illegal black market trade of moon artifacts,...
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Another one from the realm of James Cameron's movies - a robot that can build other robots. While the technology...
While the Earth is steadily being depleted of its natural resources, it might become imperative to look to the sky...
What you just saw in the video above is a perfect demonstration of the quantum levitation effect, through a fairly...
Set it went into operation, Fermi's Large Area Telescope has detected 1873 gamma rays out in space, of which only two...
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Bosco Verticale is an ambitious eco project in Milan, designed by architect Stefano Boeri, which tries to blend two discrepant...
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