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Penny-sized "microthrusters" could propel tiny satellites
Space engineers are excited by the prospect of designing and sending tiny ‘cubesats' into orbit — small-scale satellites that are cheap to build, easy to put into space, and can perform highly...
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How Britain's Failed Attempt to Develop a 'Death Ray' Changed the Course of...
In the early 1930s, Great Britain found itself in a rather precarious position. Military theorists were predicting, quite correctly, that the next war would be dominated by air power, and the ominous...
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Billionaire Peter Thiel invests in the development of 3D printed meat
The prospect of lab-grown meat has intrigued both vegetarians and environmentalists for years. Humans eat about 240 billion kilograms of meat each year — a voracious demand for animal protein that has...
View Article'Airpod' concept car runs on compressed air
India's Tata Motors is working on a revolutionary new concept car that looks like a cross between a 2001 space pod and the Alvin deep sea explorer. But unlike those vehicles, this one runs on...
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This skull pushes back human occupation of Southeast Asia and Australia by...
An ancient skull found in a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos has revised our conceptions of when humans first occupied Southeast Asia and Australia. The skull, which is the oldest...
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Over a million acres of the United States are on fire right now
The National Interagency Fire Center is reporting that the United States has established a new record for most acreage burned by wildfires as of this date. The previous record, which was set in 2006,...
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Scientists want to test geohacking solution to global warming right now
This was a summer of record heatwaves and crushing drought — and experts are warning that it's only going to get worse from here on out. So a number of scientists are calling for dramatic solutions —...
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Is this the debris field from Amelia Earhart's plane?
Despite the call from Jalopnik's Travis Okulski for everyone to stop looking for traces of Amelia Earhart, the $2.2 million investigation by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recover...
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Who should pay when your robot breaks the law?
Robots are unquestioningly getting more sophisticated by the year, and as a result, are becoming an indelible part of our daily lives. But as we start to increase our interactions and dependance on...
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NASA says Curiosity’s wind sensor was likely damaged during rocket-powered...
The Curiosity rover has experienced its first setback in what has been an almost too-good-to-be-true start to the mission. NASA is reporting that a sensor on its weather station module has sustained...
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Use this interactive chart to figure out how many alien worlds exist across...
BBC Future, with the help of iib Studio, has put together a very cool interactive calculator that takes the Drake equation to the next level. Typically, the equation is used to estimate how many...
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New Theory: Universe didn't start with a Big Bang, but with a Big Freeze
A group of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University have proposed a new theory on the origin of the universe that could overturn the Big Bang model. This new idea,...
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Study: The older the dad, the more mutations he’s likely to pass on
A whole-genome sequencing company in Iceland has discovered a direct link between the age of a father and the likelihood he is to pass on a genetic mutation to his offspring. The resultant study...
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Gibbons on helium use the same vocal techniques as opera singers
In what sounds like a twisted birthday party gone horribly wrong, Japanese researchers have shown that helium-huffing gibbons utilize the same vocal techniques as professional soprano singers. The...
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Are antibiotics making your kids obese?
The science of studying the human gut microbiome is still in its early days — but research into this area is beginning to reveal some pretty startling things. Take two recent studies published in...
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Prominent scientists sign declaration that animals have conscious awareness,...
An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to...
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Scientists identify virus that makes snakes tie themselves into knots and...
This is about as nightmarish as it must get for snakes: Scientists have finally identified an ebola-related disease that causes snakes to tie themselves into knots, stare off into space, and waste...
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How soon can we use the oceans to quench the world's thirst?
Which each passing year, the world gets thirstier. As the human population continues to grow, and becomes more urbanized, our sources of drinkable water get pushed to their limits. The solution?...
View ArticleThis is what a red giant looks like just as it's about to blow
If you're ever traveling through space and you encounter a red giant star that looks like this, you might just want to turn tail and get the hell out of there. This is a video interpretation of...
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Now we know why the Japanese tsunami was so huge
Last year's earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan left scientists baffled. They knew that the potential for large waves was very real, but the tremendous size of the Japanese tsunami went beyond...
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