Meet the People Who Dream of Building a Space Elevator
Against all odds, a small community of engineers is pushing to ensure the idea breaks free of the shackles of science fiction.
Against all odds, a small community of engineers is pushing to ensure the idea breaks free of the shackles of science fiction.
A new gene may render bacteria resistant to the 'last-resort' antibiotic colistin, but you shouldn't panic just yet. There are some things you can do that are far more productive.
Astronomers focus their telescopes 450 light years from Earth, where the rarely seen event is taking place right now.
Microscopic parasite myxozoa essentially show evolution working reverse.
Is anything more striking than this family portrait of Dione and Enceladus? The two Saturnian moons are night and day when you put them side by side, and yet they’re made from the exact same material. Read more >>
This is the IC 410 nebula, a brilliant cosmic dust cloud located approximately 10,000 light years from Earth. A four-million year-old galactic star cluster (a region of active star formation) lies toward the centre of the image, partially obscured by the nebula itself. Now, where's there a faster-than-light spaceship when you need one, to see all this first-hand? Read more >>
If the new hypothesis is correct, it could mean better prospects of finding other rock-and-ocean worlds throughout the galaxy.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right? That, at least, is the motto the European Space Agency seems to have embraced with respect to two wayward satellites.
Complex life forms, from jellyfish to squid to large flying insects that could be Carboniferous dragonflies, join the party as the music progresses through the evolution of life.
From London to Sydney, iconic buildings and monuments across the world were aglow last night in the colours of the French flag.
Ever feel like an insanely high powered laser could solve your problems? Fusion researchers sure do! And now, they may have the blueprint they’ve been searching for.
Meet Row-Bot, an autonomous robot that paddles across dirty waterways slurping up waste and microorganisms–and using the latter to digest the former, generating electricity.
A new genetic analysis of human gut bacteria is turning up some really weird critters.
Scientists at the Queen’s University Belfast have just invented the world’s first “porous liquid,” and it’s being hailed as a major breakthrough.
The Sahara is about the worst place on Earth to find water today, but that wasn’t always the case. Thousands of years ago, its sandy dune fields were lush and verdant.
Hazy orange days didn’t always go hand-in-hand with hazmat suits. Two and a half billion years ago, a tangerine tinge in the air might have kept you alive.
