Tropical park with native species will add much-needed green space to Hong Kong

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 personal steps to reduce your carbon footprint really make much difference?

Do our individual actions matter anymore? Are the lifestyle suggestions actually meaningful? Do they still make any sense?

New York Just Greenlighted The Country's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Yet

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.

World's first 3D-printed pedestrian bridge pops up in Madrid

Behold, the world’s first 3D-printed pedestrian bridge.

Scientists unveil new form of matter: Time crystals

Two teams built a time crystal, the first examples of a non-equilibrium form of matter.

The End Is Near for the Biggest Coal Plant in the American West

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.

Finding Alien Life Could Be a Simple Chemistry Test Away

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.

It's real: Metallic hydrogen has been created for the first time

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.

Ireland votes to be world's first country to fully divest from fossil fuels

The Irish parliament just passed a bill to fully divest their sovereign wealth fund from oil, gas, and coal.

All Disposable Plastic Has Been Banned From India's Capital

On the first day of the new year, India’s capital city of Delhi issued a ban on all disposable forms of plastic.

A Groundbreaking Gene-Editing Therapy Eliminated Cancer in Two Infants

Two infants diagnosed with an aggressive and previously incurable form of leukemia are now in remission, after British doctors say they cured the babies using so-called "designer cells".

Six predictions for the future of work in 2017

Whether you live to work or work to live, we’re all going to see some noticeable changes to work in the near and distant future.

A displays manufacturer Creating Flexible LCD Panels for Use in Future Phones

Japan Display officials said some smartphone makers have agreed to adopt the bendable LCD in the next few years. The company also hopes to sell the displays for other uses such as laptop computers and car dashboards.

Researchers have built a 1,000-watt 'super laser'

A team of British and Czech researchers have announced that they've constructed and fired a 1000-watt "high peak power laser". This laser is reportedly ten times more powerful as any other of its kind.

Tesla to transition from ‘Enhanced Autopilot’ to ‘Fully Self-Driving’ as soon as 3 to 6 months

There’s ‘Enhanced Autopilot’, which in itself offers several different features, and there’s ‘Full Self-Driving Capability’, which despite its name will not enable self-driving for a while, but could still be useful to Tesla drivers very soon.