Gates Foundation is Opening Six New Centres to Help End Child Mortality
Instead of flying western equipment into affected countries, the sites will provide a means of monitoring disease all the time.
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Instead of flying western equipment into affected countries, the sites will provide a means of monitoring disease all the time.
Human Remains Detection (HRD) dogs are extremely clever canines.
When freeze-dried and plated in gold, onions become a promising material for use in robotics.
Putting “I won three games in a row” on your resume probably isn’t going to get you in the door at Dow Chemical, though.
What we’re seeing is Lichtenberg Figures form from an electron beam getting zapped into an acrylic prism. It's so badass it actually looks like a force of nature on display.
Spider silk is one of the world’s strongest natural materials. Graphene is a super material with many amazing uses. So, oddly, scientists decided to combine the two.
A radar unit designed to detect life on exo-planets had a field test a little bit closer to home.
Sometimes a mission’s entire point is to smash one thing into a bigger thing and watch the explosion.
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, one of the world's most famous telescopes, is captured beautifully in this series of photos by Enrico Sacchetti. See more >>
Most of us would rather not think about what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new life in unexpected ways.
Here’s a late contender for what may be the most evocative photo yet of March's total solar eclipse: a glowing black dot over a barren snowscape, as captured by astronomers observing the sun’s magnetic field on Norway's Svalbard islands. Read more >>
During a thunderstorm, it’s normally the lightning bolts that take over Instagram. But, if you’re a heliophysicist armed with rockets, your own lightning bolt, and some heavy science, it is entirely possible take images of thunder – like this one here. See more >>
Machines’ bulky, blocky bodies seriously limit their range of motion. But what if the soft androids of the future could move like humans?
The defence-mechanism has been 18 millions years in the making.
Without this equation you would be waiting hours for your music to stream, or days for photos to load. Let us learn some more about Baron Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier's near-200-year-old mathematical triumph.
Flicking through some 2005 copies of the popular publication shows the difficulty of future gazing in the field of science.
