First signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have identified the "first fingerprints of healing" of the Antarctic ozone layer, published today in the journal Science. September ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000.

Fly Straight Into One of the Rarest Galaxies Hubble Has Ever Spotted

The galaxy we're zooming in is LEDA 36252. It's a tadpole galaxy 82 million lightyears away that has been steadily turning out new stars at an incredible rate for billions of years.

San Francisco Just Passed the Nation's Toughest Ban on Styrofoam

San Franciscans, bid adieu to Styrofoam. On Tuesday, the city unanimously passed an ordinance banning the sale of any product made from polystyrene. Come 2017, selling any polystyrene product will be prohibited.

Real Leather Without the Cow

Researchers have found a way to culture cells in a lab and produce leather that's biologically identical to that made from animal skin.

World's Largest Plane Will Launch Rockets into Space

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has an alternative idea about how to pave a commercial highway to space.

Lilium: the world's first electric vertical take off and landing jet

The egg-shaped plane, called Lilium, has been heralded as high up as the European Space Agency. The plane, designed by four German engineers, takes off and lands vertically, meaning it can use helipads.

Across the world minds are narrowing. We must fight back

Against signs of global intolerance - such as Brexit - the proper answers are cosmpolitanism, art and solidarity

Four plants grown in Mars-like soil are officially declared edible

Wageningen University scientists determined four of the crops they cultivated in Mars-like soil are in fact edible.

Canadian funeral home dissolves the dead and pours them down the drain

Unlike a conventional cremation, the process does not release carbon dioxide or other pollutants into the atmosphere.

CRISPR Targets Cancer in First Human Trial - What You Need to Know

It's happening: as early as later this year, the gene-editing power tool CRISPR could be used in its first ever human trial.

10-year-old kid built a fully functional 3D printer out of Legos and K’nex

One of the latest innovations in the 3D printing world comes from a preteen who created a 3D printer using a 3D -rinting pen and a Lego Mindstorms EV3.

Small tropical islands could become the world's first 100% renewable nations

Of the 15 nations to fully ratify the Paris climate agreement on the day it was signed in April 2016, 13 were tropical island states.

This Is Earth, Mars and Pluto as Seen From the Sun's Far Side

While orbiting the sun, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has taken a look back at Earth, to also find Mars and Pluto in shot.

How a city in Bangladesh famously won its war on air pollution

Bangladeshi city Rajshahi took steps like planting trees and introducing battery-powered rickshaws to dramatically cut air pollution.

World's first electric road opens in Sweden

Scania truck first to drive two-kilometre "e-highway" on the E16 motorway in Sweden in major step towards sustainable transport.