The world's largest 3D printer creates nearly zero-cost homes out of mud

WASP has built the world's largest delta-style 3D printer that can build full-size buildings out of mud and clay for nearly zero cost.

Elon Musk's Next Big Innovation: Solar Roofs

Can Elon Musk revolutionize the way we think about roofs too? He certainly hopes so.

Titan appears to have steep gorges and rivers like the Nile

Saturn's exotic moon Titan, with its thick atmosphere and large, methane lakes, continues to beguile planetary scientists. Now, using data collected by an altimeter aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have found liquid methane flowing through deep gorges on the moon's surface.

Hydrogen molecule falls to quantum computer

We are at the beginning of a revolution. Quantum computer calculates ground state of hydrogen with just two qubits.

Wi-fi from lasers

New fabrication of white light makes data transfer up to 20x faster. Soon we could use normal lighting for our wireless connectivity.

Much ado about nothing: Astronomers use empty space to study the universe

An international team of astronomers reports that they were able to achieve four times better precision in measurements of how the universe's visible matter is clustered together by studying the empty spaces in between.

New, Nearby Earth-Like Planet Discovered

Scientists are preparing to unveil a new planet in our galactic neighborhood which is "believed to be Earth-like" and orbits its star at a distance that could favor life. The exoplanet orbits a well-investigated star called Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri star system.

New PET scan tracer allows first imaging of the epigenetics of the human brain

A novel PET radiotracer is able for the first time to reveal epigenetic activity - the process that determines whether or not genes are expressed -within the human brain.

Exercising in City Air Makes the Effects of Pollution Worse

NYC (USA) health officials estimate that fine particulate matter (known as PM2.5) contributes to nearly 2,000 premature deaths and more than 6,000 hospital visits per year.

Take responsibility for electronic-waste disposal

The world is producing ever more electrical and electronic waste. The quantity of dumped computers, telephones, televisions and appliances doubled between 2009 and 2014, to 42 million tonnes per year globally

Proton Radius Puzzle Deepens With New Measurement

The new finding, to appear on August 12 in Science, increases the slim chance that something is truly amiss, rather than simply mismeasured, in the heart of atoms.

Scotland's wind turbines generated 106% of the country's electricity last Sunday

On Aug. 7, Scotland’s wind turbines produced 106 percent of the electricity used nationwide on that day.

Mysterious object near Neptune just made space a lot weirder

Using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii, astronomers detected a mysterious trans-Neptunian object (TNO) moving backwards around the sun.

This Is Where Europe's Upcoming Rover Mission Will Explore Mars

In October, the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission will land the Schiaparelli rover on the Red Planet. Here's where the probe is scheduled to land, and why researchers chose this particular area.

The fourth state of matter, plasma

Tuning cold plasma can either promote or inhibit bone formation.