In the last few years, conservationists and others have turned to big data to get the big picture on environmental degradation, helping to wrangle answers to some of the globe’s most pressing problems.
A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft last month are the most detailed pictures ever taken of Saturn’s famous rings, revealing complex, unexplained bands and the movements of dozens of tiny icy moonlets spinning around the planet.
The telescope, located 5,250 meters above sea level, will detect and gather precise data on primordial gravitational waves in the Northern Hemisphere. It is expected to be operational by 2021.
By using a space-time quirk first predicted by Einstein, the Hubble Space Telescope has also made it clear that our theories to explain the evolving universe are far from complete.
The Dalai Lama often recommends a particular form of Buddhist meditation called 'analytic meditation'. In this type of meditation, he said, one needs meditate on the information accumulated by the mind from various sources and use reasoning to decode and decrypt it.
By comparing standard theory and experiment, they show a discrepancy which can indicate new physics.
The concrete jungle of Hong Kong will soon become a bit greener. Landscape architecture firm revealed landscape designs to create a new public space that will inject much-needed green space to the dense urban environment.
Do our individual actions matter anymore? Are the lifestyle suggestions actually meaningful? Do they still make any sense?
The company behind the first offshore wind farm in North America won approval Wednesday from New York state to build the country’s biggest seaward turbines yet.
Behold, the world’s first 3D-printed pedestrian bridge.
Two teams built a time crystal, the first examples of a non-equilibrium form of matter.
Cheap natural gas could force the closure this year of the Navajo Generating Station near the Grand Canyon, dealing another blow to coal as a chief source of electricity in the U.S.
A very simple chemical analysis is being developed by NASA scientists that could someday be used by robotic missions on other worlds to detect alien biology.
More than 80 years after it was first predicted, physicists have created metallic hydrogen - a mysterious form of hydrogen that could be capable of superconducting electricity without resistance at room temperature.
The Irish parliament just passed a bill to fully divest their sovereign wealth fund from oil, gas, and coal.
