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Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others that were stolen from a museum last year may have been burned.
We are blessed to have a limitless supply of one energy source that can keep our devices going: urine.
Many neuropsychiatric ailments that are assumed to have a major genetic component don't seem to have one.
By using a new method of crystallization, inventor Michael Graetzel says that the cells' power conversion efficiency has shot up to 15 percent, putting them on a par with traditional silicon photovoltaics.
According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, three fears account for "the most expensive, ambitious projects humans have ever undertaken."
"This is a game changer!" says Jim Stinner, the vice president of marketing for Rust-Oleum, the company which manufactures and distributes NeverWet - a spray-on coating that repels water, mud, […]
Bacteria stored in a fuel cell broke down chemicals in urine, generating enough electricity in the process to enable text messaging, Internet browsing, and "a brief phone call."
Here is what would make a quantum computer so powerful.
Martin Heidegger called Socrates “the purest thinker” in the West, which, I gather, doesn’t necessarily mean the best thinker. The sign of Socrates’ purity is not writing down his thoughts, […]
This is how the Left gets tough – rather than confront actual problems or genuine malefactors, they hyperventilate about invented ones, at the expense of innocent people.
We have to grow about 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed the population.
A carbon tax could be devised to incentive consumers to be ever-more energy efficient.
Christopher Hitchens, Demystifier Extraordinaire.
Spreading misinformation about vaccinations can have deadly consequences.
The legal system is ill equipped to render justice in the tragic death of a young black man.
The 23-year-old space telescope may be a few years away from retirement, but its eye is still good: The newly discovered 14th moon is only 12 miles in diameter.
Scientists are growing more confident that Jupiter's moon could harbor life. The problem: Getting through its thick ice crust to the watery ocean beneath.
Just as religion informed the dawn of civilized man, so too do these 21st century stories act as a shield - protecting our sanity from an overwhelming sensation of entropic change. We are trying to find the signal in the noise. But increasingly, the noise is becoming louder and louder. It’s like this treadmill we’re running on has reached a speed we can’t keep up with. Today’s prowess Kairos is being pushed into yesterday’s fleeting Chronos. It’s a collision of dizzying proportions… everything happens now.
A team of students from Exeter University won first prize in innovation at the Imagine Cup competition with an app that turns a room full of smartphones into a stereo system.