Musk wants to make Falcon rockets fully reusable

Elon Musk said last week he is “fairly confident” his company’s Falcon rockets can be made fully reusable within a couple of years.

Australian home builder offers solar plus batteries as standard

Australian builder is offering solar and battery storage as standard. It comes with a Tesla Powerwall 2, which offers 13.5kWh of storage capacity. This combo should allow a family to meet 90% of their own energy needs.

New era of Western US wildfire demands new ways of protecting people, ecosystems

Current wildfire policy can't adequately protect people, homes and ecosystems from the longer, hotter fire seasons climate change is causing

ALMA investigates ‘DeeDee,’ a distant, dim member of our Solar System

Using the ALMA, astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of our Solar System, the planetary body 2014 UZ224, more informally known as DeeDee.

Taiwan Becomes First Asian Country to Ban Consumption of Dogs, Cats

Taiwan is the first country in Asia to make the actual consumption of dog and cat meat punishable by law.

These are the first images of the web of ghostly dark matter that holds galaxies together

A team of astronomers in Canada used the space-bending effects of dark-matter to see the unseeable.

Saturn's moon Enceladus has the ingredients to host life

Saturn's sixth-largest moon is incredibly far from the sun, but new research shows that it could probably sustain life.

World's first full-size IBC bifacial solar module takes in light from both sides

Singapore and German researchers succeeded in developing and fabricating the first full-size interdigitated back contact (IBC) bifacial solar module in the world. The groundbreaking module could last longer and generate more power.

By 2100, we could be recreating a 50 million-year-old climate

The researchers calculated that the combination of sunshine and CO2 at the end of this century would already be equivalent to the Eocene climate 50 million years ago, the warmest time period since the dinosaurs reigned.

Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems

In debates over the future of artificial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems as coldly logical and objectively rational. But in a new study, researchers have demonstrated how machines can be reflections of us in problematic ways.

Aging clock and epigenetics

Recent research has shown that DNA methylation, an epigenetic modification is so accurate that chronological age in humans can be predicted +/- 3.6 years from any tissue or fluid in the body. This is referred to as the epigenetic clock.

" My view is we should always choose knowledge over ignorance "
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Harvard Researchers Are Preparing to Geoengineer the Atmosphere

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists will disperse aerosols into the stratosphere in initial tests of a controversial technique for blocking incoming solar radiation.

Shapeshifting Method Uses Heat to Bring 3D Printing Into the Fourth Dimension

With 4D printing, the element of time becomes part of the printing system, resulting in materials that emerge with one shape but then morph into another.

NASA Funds 22 Futuristic Ideas for Space Exploration

The research grants provide funding for new studies of spacecraft propulsion, synthetic biology and more