A small fleet of experimental portable pollution sensors built by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, allow users to monitor air quality in real time on their smart phones.
Hubble Space Telescope is bringing its own merry and festive images to the holiday season. Its greetings include an image of a massive erupting planetary nebulae that represents the final brief stage in the life of a medium-sized star like our sun.
Human evolution could have been accelerated by rapid environmental changes that happened around 2 million years ago in East Africa, instead of a slow one time change in climate, as previously thought. Researchers at Penn State and Rutgers University found that "the landscape early humans were inhabi...
The new humanoid 'Roboy' will employ a new technology to move as elegantly as humans. He represents a new generation of robots and an innovative research direction for science and industry, according to the developers from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich.
Dangerous climate-change induced melting of Antartica's ice is happening even faster than previously thought by scientists, as a new study published in Nature Geoscience has found.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that more and more complicated test flights are planned over the next months. The year 2013 will also be noteworthy for the first planned test of the Falcon Heavy, one of the largest rockets ever built.
Christmas gift for mankind: A second earth! The discovery of 5 planets, one of them having the right size and orbit to be habitable like Earth, orbiting the star Tau Ceti, which happens to be the closest sun-like star near our own solar system, is like a heavenly gift for Christmas.
An unusual epidemic of coral disease has been killing a large number of corals on the north shore of the Hawaiian island, Kunai.
Genetically modified salmon, growing extra fast, could soon come to the American market. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft report on Friday, finding that the fish wouldn't hurt the environment and will be safe to eat.
A small device, or rather test, about the size of a business card will allow even non-specialists to quickly test for insulin and other blood proteins, cholesterol, and even signs of viral or bacterial infection all at the same time — with one drop of blood.
Joining the polar bears on the list of endangered species are two types of ice seals which will be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
A new kind of magnetism dubbed quantum spin liquid (QSL), until now only predicted by theories but impossible to prove, was now measured for the first time in a special kind of crystal by a team of MIT researchers.
