A UK-based team of researchers has created a graphene-based sieve capable of removing salt from seawater. The sought-after development could aid the millions of people without ready access to clean drinking water.
The president wants to massively cut most nonmilitary R&D—except for NASA. An interview with ‘How We’ll Live on Mars’ author Stephen Petranek reveals why.
Famed astrophysicist and television personality Neil deGrasse Tyson has shown he is capable of achieving just about anything, from earning no fewer than a dozen honorary doctorates to explaining the history of the universe in less than 10 minutes.
Multiple reports of Tasmanian Tiger sightings are starting to flow in from everyday citizens in Australia. Several people have recently claimed they’ve spotted the animal, which isn’t a tiger at all – and, despite looking very much like a species of …
Fast Radio Bursts – the strange signals that are occasionally sent down to Earth – have been pinned down to everything from aliens to a measuring mistake.
A mysterious X-ray source became 1,000 times brighter over a few hours before fading dramatically in about a day. Credit: NASA/CXC/Universidad Católica de Chile/F.
Melting glaciers, from Greenland to Antarctica, have become symbols of global warming – and monitoring their retreat is one major way scientists are keeping tabs on the progress of climate change.
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – Gray Whales Count volunteers count whales swimming past the Coal Oil Point nature preserve in Isla Vista near the University of California, Santa Barbara campus.
The citizen scientists have flagged four specific objects for follow-up in the search for Planet Nine, which calculations from January 2016 suggest may be orbiting the sun.
Blenny fish have always been notable for their big teeth—choppers that give their mouths a demented kind of grin. But it turns out those fangs can do more than chomp down on food.
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Low (Photo : Wochit News/ You Tube) CNN reports that there is currently less sea ice surrounding the Antarctic continent today, that any point in time since recording began in 1979.
Six-year-old Abby Gangnath, a kindergartener at Betsy Ross Elementary School in Anaheim is exuberant as she waits to ask astronauts aboard the International Space Station a question via live feed on Monday.
A new research claims to have found a new solar storage solution based on the western sword fern. A new research carried out by Australian scientists claims to have found a new solar storage solution.
The lights are being switched off around the world at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, to mark the 10th annual Earth Hour, and to draw attention to climate change.
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