Why the Future of Stuff Is Having More and Owning Less

Technology is enabling us to move away from ownership and towards an economy based on sharing and subscriptions.

Scientists predict a Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ the size of a city this summer

Administration predicts that the annual dead zone will reach an area of nearly 8,200 square miles in July, more than 50 percent larger than its average size.

Study: Climate change damages US economy, increases inequality

Unmitigated climate change will make the United States poorer and more unequal, according to a new study published in the journal Science.

Dutch Windwheel project moves forward

Latest designs have been presented for the Dutch Windwheel, a 174m-tall structure in Rotterdam that will be a combination of energy generator, residendial block and tourist attraction.

Researchers find sunscreen becomes ‘toxic’ when exposed to chlorine

Chlorine mixed with sunscreen has been found to result in kidney and liver dysfunctions, as well as nervous system disorders.

Solar-powered car promises 500-mile range

According to the company, owners who live in warm, sunny climates will be able to drive their car for months on end without ever plugging into a wall socket.

Japan Develops Dual-Arm Remote Control Construction Robot

Researchers at Osaka University have developed a prototype robot with a double swing arm mechanism and hydraulically powered 'hands'.

Saturn's Hexagonal Storm Is Pure Chaotic Beauty In New Cassini Images

Ihe intrepid orbiter sent back some truly stellar pics of the planet's most unusual feature: The raging hexagonal storm on its North Pole.

Information overload makes social media a swamp of fake news

Low attention and a flood of data are serious problems for social networks.

Elevators of the Future Will Move Sideways Without a Single Cable

To improve efficiency, and facilitate the construction of even taller buildings, Germany’s company has completely redesigned elevators so that they can move sideways now, too.

Engineers design a robotic gripper for cleaning up space debris

Researchers combined gecko-inspired adhesives and a custom robotic gripper to create a device for grabbing space debris.

The multi-colored photons that might change quantum information science

The team demonstrates that photons can become an accessible and powerful quantum resource when generated in the form of color-entangled quDits.

No detectable limit to how long people can live: study

By analyzing the lifespan of the longest-living individuals since 1968, a new study comes to conclusion that there is no evidence for an age limit.

Astronomers detect orbital motion in pair of supermassive black holes

Astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light-years from Earth.