"Humanity will look back on Nov. 4, 2016, as the day that countries of the world shut the door on inevitable climate disaster," UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa and Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar said in a joint statement.
Electron microscopes are renowned for their ability to peer down into the hidden world of the very small. A new technique that took 15 years to develop finally overcomes this optical limitation, producing the first ever multicolor electron microscope images.
Join Leonardo DiCaprio as he explores the topic of climate change, and discovers what must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.
The Netherlands will spend 150 million Euros on a program for farmers to turn cow poop into biogas using anaerobic digesters.
On a mission to build the world’s fastest train, China is developing a new type of magnetic levitation (maglev) train they say will zoom the tracks at a top speed of 373 miles per hour.
The Government in Canada is promising to run all government operations on renewable energy within a decade. The switch is to be complete by 2025.
China's newest and biggest heavy-lift rocket was successfully launched today.
A major technological advance in the field of high-speed beam-scanning devices has increased the speed of 2-D and 3-D printing by up to 1000 times.
How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment? It isn't easy, but a researcher has discovered ways to immobilize such waste.
Timmu Tõke envisions a future where a realistic 3-D avatar of himself meets up in a virtual world to interact with other avatars that look just like the people from home.
New study says that unless nations ramp up their carbon-reduction pledges before 2020, it will be nearly impossible to keep warming to 2 degrees.
In the search for the mysterious dark matter, physicists have used elaborate computer calculations to come up with an outline of the particles of this unknown form of matter.
If you read or watch the news, you'll likely think the world is falling to pieces.. But there’s another story, a story the news doesn’t often report. This story is backed by data, and it says we’re actually living in the most peaceful, abundant time in history.
Scientists have produced the first global maps of human emissions of carbon dioxide ever made solely from satellite observations, using data from NASA