Miniaturization is one of the most world-shaking trends of the last several decades. Computer chips now have features measured in billionths of a meter. Sensors that once weighed kilograms fit inside your smartphone. But it doesn't end there.
The Asian country has embarked upon a long-term plan to colonize the Moon. The Long March 7 rocket has lifted off on Saturday from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.
The Curiosity Rover discovered manganese oxides on the red planet. The seemingly simple find actually has mind-boggling implications: ancient Mars could have been a lot more like Earth than we thought.
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have identified the "first fingerprints of healing" of the Antarctic ozone layer, published today in the journal Science. September ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000.
The galaxy we're zooming in is LEDA 36252. It's a tadpole galaxy 82 million lightyears away that has been steadily turning out new stars at an incredible rate for billions of years.
San Franciscans, bid adieu to Styrofoam. On Tuesday, the city unanimously passed an ordinance banning the sale of any product made from polystyrene. Come 2017, selling any polystyrene product will be prohibited.
Researchers have found a way to culture cells in a lab and produce leather that's biologically identical to that made from animal skin.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has an alternative idea about how to pave a commercial highway to space.
The egg-shaped plane, called Lilium, has been heralded as high up as the European Space Agency. The plane, designed by four German engineers, takes off and lands vertically, meaning it can use helipads.
Against signs of global intolerance - such as Brexit - the proper answers are cosmpolitanism, art and solidarity
Wageningen University scientists determined four of the crops they cultivated in Mars-like soil are in fact edible.
Unlike a conventional cremation, the process does not release carbon dioxide or other pollutants into the atmosphere.
It's happening: as early as later this year, the gene-editing power tool CRISPR could be used in its first ever human trial.
One of the latest innovations in the 3D printing world comes from a preteen who created a 3D printer using a 3D -rinting pen and a Lego Mindstorms EV3.
