Scientists find proof that a black hole is lurking in the middle of our galaxy

Clumps of gas have been seen swirling around the mysterious region, ten billion times bigger than the Sun

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Meet the Endoterrestrials

They live thousands of feet below the Earth’s surface. They eat hydrogen and exhale methane. And they may shape our world more profoundly than we can imagine.

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Famed planet-hunting spacecraft is dead. Now what?

Astronomers are building instruments that can characterize the many alien worlds the Kepler spacecraft revealed—and look for signs of life.

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Exoskeletons in the workplace

Once again, technology is extending what the human body can do. There's plenty of engineering involved, optimized for business uses of physical augmentation: power boosts, kinetic energy storage, and "augmented joints" that can lock on demand and distribute static loads while the worker is in an awkward position. It’s business transformation with real transformers. @Enterprisenxt

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Embattled Thirty Meter Telescope scores big win in Hawaii's highest court

State supreme court rules that the US$1.4-billion observatory's construction permit is valid, after years-long legal battle.

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Hyundai and Kia unveil new solar roof to charge batteries in vehicles, launching next year

Electric vehicles enable owners to have more choices for the sources of energy to power their vehicles.

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NASA spacecraft breaks record for coming closest to Sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for becoming the closest human-made object to the Sun, the US space agency announced Monday.

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Alzheimer’s Is a Spectrum Disorder: How to Treat the Individual

Alzheimer’s is a spectrum disorder that exhibits differently in everyone. Learn how to treat the individual in this informative interview with neurologist Gayatri Devi, M.D.

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When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

When researchers convinced a group of young people to stop smoking pot, their cognition quickly improved. This adds to research warning against teen pot use, despite marijuana's growing acceptance.

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Psychologists discover what type of person is most likely to believe fake news

Researchers identified two styles of thought which affected the likelihood of someone believing fake news.

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Scientists Confirm China as Major Source of Banned Ozone-Depleting Chemicals

Despite being banned in 2010, about 40,000 tons of carbon tetrachloride, an ozone-depleting compound, are still emitted into the atmosphere every year. But the origins of the illegal emissions have long baffled scientists. Now, an international team of researchers has tracked down the source of nearly half of the emissions to eastern China, according to a recent study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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NASA launches Mars podcasts

All the thrills and spills of the latest mission to the Red Planet are now downloadable. Brian W. Pulling reports.

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Top battery scientists have a plan to electrify flight and slash airline emissions

Could a new battery designed for the demands of aviation solve one of the hardest problems in the climate puzzle?

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Just how massive is the Milky Way?

A first of its kind study uses angular momentum of satellite galaxies to weigh the Milky Way, providing a testing ground for the widely theorized cold dark matter theory.

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Cephalopods could become an important food source in the global community

With a growing world population and climate challenges that are causing agricultural areas to shrink, many are wondering where sustainable food will come from in the future. A professor of gastrophysics from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen and a chef offer a suggestion in a new research article: The cephalopod population (including squid, octopus and cuttlefish) in the oceans is growing and growing – let’s get better at cooking them so that many more people will want to eat them!

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Incredible New Test Can Screen Your Blood For Every Single Known Bacterial Infection Simultaneously

Each year, Americans develop over 1.5 million cases of sepsis as a result of bacterial infections. More than a quarter of a million of these cases prove fatal.

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Common chemical linked to language delay in children

Children may suffer delayed language skills if their mothers come in contact with common chemicals called phthalates in early pregnancy, new research suggests.

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Skull-shaped asteroid will fly past earth after Halloween

'Halloween Asteroid' shaped like a skull is late for the party this year, flying past Earth on 11 November.

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Can we predict when and where a crime will take place?

Predictive policing using data analytics is gaining acceptance among police forces, but at what cost?

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Moss-like plant may help with pain more than medical marijuana

A moss-like plant grown only in a few countries may offer better pain relief than medical marijuana, animal research suggests.

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Would you risk prison for a dinosaur fossil? This man did.

We are all familiar with the trade in drugs or stolen artworks. But what would make someone want to risk life and limb for a fossil? That’s one of the questions Paige Williams has tried to answer in The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal and the Quest for the Ultimate Trophy.

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Trove of newly released NASA audio puts you backstage during Apollo 1

A team of engineers spent years giving new life to old NASA tapes with behind-the-scenes audio from the Apollo era.

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Air Pollution Killed 600,000 Children in 2016, According to WHO Report

The World Health Organization found that 1.8 billion people under 15 are at risk of respiratory infections due to contaminated air.

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World's top fishing nations to be given millions to protect oceans

Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch major grant for coastal communities to improve the health of oceans

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NASA Fixes Broken Hubble Telescope By Turning It Off And On Again

Hubble's maintenance team was sent into a frenzy after one of their gears malfunctioned — but they fixed it in the simplest way.

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Physicists Discover How an Exotic Form of Ice Grows at Over 1,000 Miles Per Hour

Physicists detail how “Ice VII” forms for the first time and what this means for life elsewhere in the galaxy.

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How dogs could help eradicate malaria

Dogs have been trained to sniff out malaria in socks worn by African children, and they are remarkably good at it.

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Spaceflight Might Expand Your Mind, But It Shrinks Your Brain

A small study of 10 cosmonauts found that spaceflight led to changes in gray and white matter volume in the brain.

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Humans Are Screwing Up Dolphins' Abilities To Talk To Each Other

Noise from ships and boats are causing dolphins to make their calls less complex, according to a new study.

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Just a few drinks can change how memories are formed

Researchers at Brown found that alcohol hijacks a conserved memory pathway in the brain and changes which versions of genes are made, forming the cravings that fuel addiction.

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Africa’s slender-snouted crocodile is not one but two species

At first glance, the slender-snouted crocodiles living in Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa look very similar to the ones in the Gambia River in West Africa. But as it turns out, the crocodile is not one but two distinct species: one unique to West Africa and the other to Central Africa.

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Scientists call for ‘mega-mission’ to find ancient life on Mars

Rocket scientists tell Nasa a new rover could finally unlock red planet’s secrets

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China’s first attempt to reach orbit with a private space company failed

A reminder: getting to space is hard

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The year's best astronomy photos

Some of the winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's annual competition.

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Cars and traffic signals are talking to each other

Cars and traffic signals are talking to each other, leaving the driver — if there even is one — out. Top automakers including Volkswagen, Honda (HMC), Ford (F) and BMW (BMWYY) are experimenting with technology that allows cars and traffic lights to communicate and work together to ease congestion, cut emissions and increase safety.

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Virtual reality could show others what autism feels like—and lead to potential treatments

Researchers and autistic artists are exploring immersive visuals to study and simulate autism traits

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The spiders who came in from the cold

A sprawling study of spiders across northern Canada has turned up more than 100 species in provinces or territories where they had never before been recorded. The findings, by researchers from McGill University, provide a valuable new benchmark for monitoring biodiversity across Canada’s vast northern expanses. Using traps to sample 12 selected sites from Labrador to the Northwest Territories, McGill PhD student Sarah Loboda and Prof. Chris Buddle collected 23,000 adult spiders representing more than 300 species.

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Sting - Fields Of Gold (HD) Ten Summoner's Tales

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For $150,000 you can now order your own Hoverbike

This crazy looking motorcycle-styled hoverbike appeared in early 2017 and we were skeptical the contraption would ever move beyond just an odd engineering curiosity. However, Hoversurf has revealed its hoverbikes are now ready for production and preorders are open, with delivery scheduled for 2019.

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A Volcanic Eruption on Mars? Nope.

A photograph from a spacecraft orbiting Mars shows a long, white wisp, close to a thousand miles long, spilling out of a giant volcano. Could the volcano, thought to be dormant for some 50 million years, be about to blow? Planetary scientists confidently say no. “It’s just a cloud,” said Eldar Noe Dobrea, a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, which is based in Tucson, Ariz.

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Coke and Kellogg’s among major firms to pledge to cut all plastic waste

Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s and Nestle are among 250 major brands pledging to cut all plastic waste from their operations – a move described by the UN as the most ambitious effort yet to fight plastic pollution. The commitment comes as public pressure mounts on manufacturers and retailers to reduce the avalanche of plastic packaging clogging landfills and choking the oceans.

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Why peanut reactions have become 'almost epidemic' — and what to do about food allergies

Allergies to peanuts and other types of food continues to climb, but experts say there is some progress in controlling or preventing life-threatening reactions.

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Number of Habitable Exoplanets Found by NASA's Kepler May Not Be So High After All

The tally of potentially habitable alien planets may have to be revised downward a bit. To date, NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope has discovered about 30 roughly Earth-size exoplanets in their host stars' "habitable zone" — the range of orbital distances at which liquid water can likely exist on a world's surface. Or so researchers had thought. New observations by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft suggest that the actual number is probably significantly smaller — perhaps between two and 12, NASA officials said today (Oct. 26). [Photos: Gaia Spacecraft to Map Milky Way Galaxy]

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Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare

Sidewalk Labs promised 'privacy by design' in Quayside. Will it actually happen?

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Why Private Equity Is Furious Over a Paper in a Dermatology Journal

The sudden, unexplained removal of a research paper on private equity firms buying dermatology practices has raised questions about corporate influence.

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Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head

Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom

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How Much Trash Is on Mount Everest?

Mount Everest has a mountain of a problem: human waste. And not just leftover camping meals, beer and fuel cans, but human poo, too. So, how much poopy and other garbage calls the planet's highest mountain home? A Tech Times story describes the mountain as "the world's highest garbage dump." But Alton Byers, a mountain geologist at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder...

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The Economic Value of Artificial Intelligence

Companies slow to adopt AI-based productivity improvements be warned: Artificial intelligence is the biggest commercial opportunity for companies, industries and nations over the next few decades, according to a recent report from PwC. AI advances will increase global GDP by up to 14% between now and 2030, the equivalent of an additional $15.7 trillion contribution to the world’s economy.

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The secret to being more likeable on first dates and job interviews revealed

People who need to make a good impression on dates or in job interviews should concentrate on communicating the hard work and effort behind their success, rather than just emphasising their talent, new research from Cass Business School has found. In Impression (Mis) Management When Communicating Success, published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Dr Janina Steinmetz investigated how people attribute their success on dates and job...

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Researchers Taught an AI to Give Really Good Head

According to a research paper on the project, entitled “Analysis of Movement in Oral Sex Performed Upon Men,” sixteen distinct motions were discovered.

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