MRI scanner sees emotions flickering across an idle mind

A Duke team has mapped the distinct patterns of brain activity that correspond to seven different emotional states. The team says they can see various emotional states flickering across the human brain.

Teleportation of light particles across cities in China and Canada a 'technological breakthrough'

Scientists have shown they can teleport photons across a city, a development that has been hailed as a technological breakthrough.

Starving black hole at the heart of mysterious dimming galaxy

An international team of astronomers crack the case of a mysterious galaxy,Markarian 1018, that has suddenly dimmed after shining brightly for 30 years.

New type of fabric can harvest energy via movement and sunshine

Georgia Tech researchers designed a hybrid energy fabric, or hybrid power textile, that can harvest energy via the sun and movement.

Denmark is building the “Silicon Valley of agriculture” near Aarhus

The project is designed to boost agricultural performance in a dense urban environment, ensuring long-term food security without environmental degradation.

Evolution: The Movie, courtesy of a really big Petri dish

New technique lets researchers visibly trace evolving lineages of bacteria.

The Sugar Industry Was Funding Research Downplaying Its Effect On Health

A recent discovery of documents that are nearly 50 years old has shown how the practice of funding specific research has been employed by the sugar industry for decades, producing influential evidence that diminishes the impact that sugar has on heart disease.

Watching Brain Scans, People Control Mental Activity

People were able to calm activity in the amygdala after seeing visual cues that responded to their mental processes.

Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech partner to produce jet fuel from waste gases

Since 2011 the two companies have been committed to producing the world’s first jet fuel derived from waste industrial gases from steel mills via a fermentation process.

A startup crowdfunds groundbreaking solar-powered car

A German startup has raised over $200,000 to test an innovative self-charging EV that uses integrated solar panels to supply power throughout the day.

China readies launch of space station pathfinder mission

China is scheduled to launch a human-rated spacecraft the size of a bus Thursday, paving the way for a month-long visit by two astronauts in October and nudging the country’s space program closer to building a large research complex in orbit by the early 2020s.

Meditation, yoga and vegetarian diet alters blood serum

Participants in a six-day Ayurvedic-based well-being program that featured a vegetarian diet, meditation, yoga and massages experienced measurable decreases in a set of blood-based metabolites.

New discovery shatters previous beliefs about Earth's origin

A new study proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins – a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.

University pioneers robotic eye surgery

Surgeons at John Radcliffe hospital have performed eye-surgery using a small robot operated by joystick. The procedure is the first of its kind.

Scotland Tests Battery That Could Revolutionize Renewables

The U.K. government has funded an energy storage trial on a wind farm using an electrical innovation: a battery. The new device, a vanadium redox flow battery, is believed to be able to revolutionize the global renewables sector.