Universal flu vaccine designed by scientists

Scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.

This Accessory Makes VR So Real a Surgeon Could Train with It

Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile.

Fermi Finds Record-breaking Binary in Galaxy Next Door

Scientists have found the first gamma-ray binary in another galaxy and the most luminous one ever seen.

New devices emulate human biological synapses

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.

Scientists stop light in a cloud of atoms

Australian scientists have stopped light in a cloud of very cold atoms, a development that provides a essential building block for quantum computing.

Study Shows Low-emission Cars Less Expensive than Polluters

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.

Student discovers a way to destroy superbug bacteria without antibiotics

A college student has developed a defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria that literally rips them to shreds.

Bangladesh is building a dirty and expensive coal plant next to the world's largest mangrove forest

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.

US Approves World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector To Begin Hunt In 2020

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

Hubble Directly Images Possible Plumes on Europa

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.

SpaceX Wants to Venture Much Further Out Into the Solar System

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.

The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold..

Carbon dioxide just hit its annual minimum and failed to dip below 400 ppm.

" You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. "
- R. Buckminster Fuller -

Pluto may have a 60 mile deep liquid water ocean

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.

Momentum Builds for Montreal Protocol to Be Big Climate Win

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).