Scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.
Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile.
Scientists have found the first gamma-ray binary in another galaxy and the most luminous one ever seen.
A new type of nanodevice for computer microprocessors is being developed that can mimic the functioning of a biological synapse -- the place where a signal passes from one nerve cell to another in the body.
Australian scientists have stopped light in a cloud of very cold atoms, a development that provides a essential building block for quantum computing.
As electric and hybrid cars steadily become more popular, MIT thought they would double check the numbers and see just how economic low-emission cars are.
A college student has developed a defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria that literally rips them to shreds.
A controversial new coal power plant being built in Bangladesh is already running out of friends. Environmentalists worry it will spell disaster for the world’s largest mangrove forest.
An advanced dark matter detector that hopes to find a rare collision between a dark matter particle and normal matter has just been approved in the US
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took direct ultraviolet images of the icy moon Europa transiting across the disk of Jupiter. Out of ten observations, Hubble saw what may be water vapor plumes on three of the images.
Elon Musk finally revealed his plans for a mission to Mars today. But a new set of images from SpaceX show the Interplanetary Transport System going even further in the solar system than the Red Planet.
Carbon dioxide just hit its annual minimum and failed to dip below 400 ppm.
A prior study demonstrated that Pluto's center is sufficiently warm to bolster a fluid water sea, and now we've discovered that it may be immense - no less than 100 km (62 miles) profound.
What if I told you the world could take one action this year that would shave off a half a degree Celsius of warming from our overheating planet? Leaders have a chance when they meet in Rwanda next month to secure a phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).