A study published today in the journal Science details how researchers at UCLA have succeeded in converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel. Things gets a bit technical from here,...
NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) satellite has captured images and video of a tornado on the sun several times as large as the Earth.
Last September the SDO satellite film...
Google's App Engine is used for a lot of different web applications. While it can be used for business applications, the more interesting uses come from the scientific and research...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has announced a new estimate for the number of planets similar to Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy: tens of billions.
“Our new observations...
"It was a very lunar, desolate place, very isolated. My feeling was one of complete isolation from all of humanity."
That's how James Cameron described the bottom of the ocean....
James Cameron, the Academy Award winning director of films like Titanic, Avatar, and The Abyss, doesn't keep his drive for thrills and exploration contai...
A week ago, you started a new prescription medication for acne. Today, you feel dizzy and short of breath and have difficulty concentrating. Your symptoms are not listed in the pac...
More than half of likely voters doubt that the United States will be the No. 1 world leader in science, technology and health care by the year 2020, according to a new national pub...
People often wonder if computers make children smarter. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are asking the reverse question: Can children make computers smarter?...
A couple weeks ago, we reported on Washington State University chemistry professor Aurora Clark, who is applying the Google PageRank concept to water molecules to determine molecul...
It seems there’s a social network for everything and everybody these days. Not all of them take off, but I’m glad to see that ResearchGate has received funding to keep expanding....
Recall when Charlie and Willy Wonka traveled around Earth in a glass elevator in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator? Remember how fun that sounded? Your chi...