After a review of celestial data spanning 27 centuries, a team of astronomers has determined that Earth’s orbit slows almost two milliseconds every 100 years.
New tests verify that Germany's Wendelstein 7-X fusion energy device is on track to safely suspend plasma in magnetic fields.
Swiss adventurer Raphael Domjan has unveiled a two-seater solar aircraft with which he hopes to become the first pilot to fly in the stratosophere.
Younger adults are more likely than older adults to think organic foods are better for their health and to believe GM foods are worse.
A brain-controlled glove is letting people with paraplegia perform everyday tasks like eating, drinking and signing their name.
Google announced this week that it is on target to achieve 100-percent renewable energy in 2017.
More than 100,000 people participated in the BIG Bell Test, a global experiment to test the laws of quantum physics.
Portuguese environment minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes has confirmed that his country will stop burning coal by 2030 at the latest.
The Train Inspection Monorail (TIM) is equipped with a camera and several measurement technologies to monitor in real-time the LHC tunnel.
Morocco—which recently hosted the COP22 summit to discuss implementing the Paris Climate Agreement—is emerging as an increasingly impressive contender in the transition away from fossil fuels.
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique has been used in its first human trial. Scientists at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China began a trial last month to treat a lung cancer patient.
Things are heating up in India, where one of the world’s top polluting countries has unveiled the world’s largest solar power plant.
Scientists at the University of Sussex have invented a ground-breaking new method that puts the construction of large-scale quantum computers within reach of current technology.
MIT researchers discover astonishing behavior of water confined in carbon nanotubes.
A stunning new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy that's being strangled by tentacles of gas and dust. The strange and intricate shape of this celestial object is caused by a supermassive black hole.
