Sometimes the brightest ideas come in young packages. Teenagers from around the world demonstrate you don’t need a high school diploma to come up with a life-changing invention.
A customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat has now been developed by researchers, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure.
The new technology used to make this discovery could one day allow scientists to image live activity in the brain.
Corporate giants have joined the Norwegian government in creating a fund to find deforestation in Brazil.
A bill to be introduced to the Hawaii Legislature calls for ground transportation to be 100 percent fueled by 2045 by renewable sources.
The intrinsic ability of graphene to superconduct has been activated for the first time. This further widens the potential of graphene as a material that could be used in fields such as energy storage, high-speed computing, and molecular electronics.
The Wolf 1061 star system is only 14 light-years away and a team of astronomers are doing the groundwork to begin looking for signs of extraterrestrial biology in one of its planet.
India’s ambitious plan worth $1trillion to partially transform its energy sector into clean energy and enhance energy efficiency will help millions of villagers and help households save billions of dollars in electricity bills.
Microbiologists report that they have discovered a new type of natural wire produced by bacteria that could greatly accelerate the researchers' goal of developing sustainable 'green' conducting materials for the electronics industry.
Machines that are capable of making precise operations inside the human eye will make it possible to perform entirely new procedures.
This study shows that female inmates who meditate twice a day have less trauma symptoms and are less likely to recidivate.
Reports are out that a Chinese robot has written and published its first newspaper article. The news comes the same month as a Japanese insurance company announced it was replacing 34 workers with an artificial intelligence system.
Finalist proposals from Hyperloop One's Global Challenge could lead to a global system of high-speed capsule transportation.
China has announced plans to cancel more than 100 coal plants currently in development, scrapping what would amount to a massive 120 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired electricity capacity if the plants were completed.
Using a process designed to “reprogram” normal adult cells into pluripotent stem cells researchers have managed to boost the life spans of mice by up to 30% and rejuvenate some of their tissues.
