SpaceX nails reusable rocket milestone

Elon Musk's space company just made history by reusing the Falcon 9 rocket.

Former concrete factory begins anew as an alternative high school with no curriculum

The Roskilde Festival Folk High School will differ in many ways from the typical high school. The alternative school has neither curriculum nor exams. Education will usually be focused on creative and humanistic topics, as well as on common life at school.

Take a Peek Inside Blue Origin's New Shepard Crew Capsule

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos provided a sneak peek today into the interior of the New Shepard crew capsule, the suborbital vehicle for space tourism.

London and Paris mayors announce new emissions monitoring system for vehicles

The mayors of London and Paris are acting to cut air pollution in their cities by monitoring emissions and rating vehicles based on their score.

Robots Are Replacing Human Workers at an Alarming Rate

We all know, or at least suspect, that robots are taking people’s jobs, but new research shows the dramatic degree to which industrial robots are replacing human workers and forcing down wages.

New theory joins black holes, gravitational waves & axions to find new physics

Scientists have proposed a new theory that combines some of the most mysterious phenomena in the Universe - black holes, gravitational waves, and axions - to solve one of the most confounding problems in modern physics.

Lead exposure in childhood linked to lower IQ as adults

A long-term study of 565 children who grew up in the era of leaded gasoline has shown that their exposure to the powerful neurotoxin led to a loss of intelligence and occupational standing by the time they reached age 38.

Elon Musk's latest target: Brain-computer interfaces

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is announcing a new venture called Neuralink focused on linking brains to computers.

Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream

Now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream.

Chance find has big implications for water treatment's costs and carbon footprint

A type of bacteria accidentally discovered during research could fundamentally reshape efforts to cut the huge amount of electricity consumed during wastewater clean-up. The discovery has upended a century of conventional thinking.

How lotteries could revolutionize recycling in Australia

Economic evidence suggests that the scheme could be cheaper to run, and boost recycling more, if it was run as a lottery instead, with every recycled bottle representing a “ticket” to a prize draw.

EU hails new Airbus-size alliance for supercomputers

Seven European countries announced a joint initiative to acquire and deploy world-class high-performance computers. EuroHPCEuroHPC aims to deploy so-called exascale computers that are capable of at least 10 to the 18th power calculations per second.

New opportunities for augmented reality

Pairing augmented reality with diminished reality provides a superior visual experience and could help grow the AR market.

German 'Largest Artificial Sun' To Generate Climate Friendly Fuel

Dubbed the “artificial Sun”, the Synlight uses concentrated light to power Thermochemical Water Splitting (TWS.) The Synlight project will mimic the effect of intense, continuous solar energy, something that is not readily available in Germany.

Dark Spot and Jovian ‘Galaxy’

The JunoCam captured this image on 2 February 2017, at 1313 GMT, at an altitude of 14,500 kilometres above the giant planet’s cloud tops.