Airbus just flew its mammoth A380 superjumbo jet using fuel made with cooking oil

Airbus just completed another milestone in its effort to reduce aviation carbon footprint by flying an A380 jumbo jet using 100% sustainable aviation fuel.

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Electric cars: Five big questions answered

The electric car revolution is speeding up but what do buyers really want to know?

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You’ll be injecting robots into your bloodstream to fight disease soon

The last shot you'll ever need. What if we could create super-powered micro-bots that lived to destroy diseases? What if we already did?

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A computer made from DNA-coated beads could detect viruses in saliva

A type of DNA computer that shows results through the motion of tiny beads could massively increase the parallel processing power of such machines. DNA computers take up less space than silicon-based ones and can work in wet environments. They could be used for applications such as detecting contamination in drinking water or monitoring sugar levels in the body.

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The Milky Way's 'thick disk' is 2 billion years older than scientists thought

The thick disk began forming stars just 0.8 billion years after the Big Bang.

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Here's how food waste can generate clean energy

Technologies like biomass gasification can help tackle the growing global problem of food waste.

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Exclusive-SpaceX ending production of flagship crew capsule -executive

SpaceX has ended production of new Crew Dragon astronaut capsules, a company executive told Reuters, as Elon Musk's space transportation company heaps resources on its next-generation spaceship program.

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Solar starts strong, growing 40% year over year in January

Solar PV reached new heights through 2021, with top line estimates pegging total global deployment at the inspiring milestone of 1TW of installed active capacity on the planet. In January 2022, the United States made its latest contribution by bringing 22 projects to commercial operation, adding 952MW of capacity.

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Artificial sweeteners cause cancer in mice. Here's worrying data from humans.

In a new study, researchers used data from over 100,000 people to better pinpoint whether consumption of artificial sweeteners is linked with an increased risk of cancer in humans.

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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Uncover Hidden Signatures of Parkinson’s Disease

Combining AI and robotics technology, researchers have identified new cellular characteristics of Parkinson's disease in skin cell samples from patients.

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Now you can hear what your voice would sound like on Mars

NASA has created an online tool that simulates how you’d sound on the red planet. That’s right: You can drop your own Mars bars in a round of interstellar karaoke.

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Would you live in this conker-shaped pod?

These futuristic conker-shaped pods can be assembled together to form a house that expands or shrinks according to your needs.

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Here Comes the Multi-Metaverse Mess

Conflicting corporate priorities will make the metaverse a more fragmented experience, not a single destination.

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NASA will survey the entire sky with its SPHEREx observatory

NASA is ramping up plans for a new sky survey tool that could help unravel some of the biggest mysteries about the origin of the universe. The mission, called SPHEREx or Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, is set to launch by April 2025 and will investigate big questions in cosmology, such as what happened in the first few seconds after the Big Bang and how the universe developed and evolved.

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'Forever chemicals' found in fast food wrappers

An analysis by Consumer Reports was released

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Dogs Can Tell the Difference Between Human Languages

Canines in the study could differentiate between Spanish, Hungarian and nonsense words

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Longer naps in the day may be an early sign of dementia in older adults

Doctors often recommend “power naps” as a way to compensate for a poor night’s sleep and help keep alert until bedtime. But for older adults, extensive power naps could be an early sign of dementia. Research on how napping affects cognition in adults has had mixed results. Some studies on younger adults suggest that napping is beneficial to cognition, while others on older adults suggest it may be linked to cognitive impairment. However, many studies are based on just a single self-reported nap assessment.

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The double-slit experiment: Is light a wave or a particle?

The double-slit experiment is one of the most famous experiments in physics and definitely one of the weirdest. It demonstrates that matter and energy (such as light) can exhibit both wave and particle characteristics — known as the particle-wave duality of matter — depending on the scenario, according to the scientific communication site Interesting Engineering.

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How the Webb Space Telescope Will Support the Search for Alien Life

Webb will be a "game changer" in our understanding of distant worlds, scientists say.

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Men with higher levels of dark personality traits exhibit a greater tendency towards infidelity

Having a partner with a ‘dark personality’ can put you at higher risk of suffering repeated infidelity, a study published in the Acta Psychologica journal reveals. The concept of a ‘dark personality’ comes from a triad proposed by personality theorists and includes subclinical narcissism (focus on oneself), psychopathy (lack of empathy, remorselessness), and Machiavellianism (cynicism, acting in self-interest). Other traits associated with a dark personality are sadism, selfishness, moral disengagement, and resentment.

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Great Barrier Reef hit by sixth mass bleaching event, leading coral scientist says

Prof Terry Hughes says he believes bleaching is under way as the Australian government conducts monitoring flights over 2,300km reef

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Psychopathy May Not Be a Mental Disorder, But Totally Something Else According to Researchers

For more than half a century, the kinds of antisocial personality traits we think of as psychopathic – such as a lack of remorse, aggression, and disregard for the wellbeing of others – have been associated with mental illness.

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Gambling addiction could be nine times higher than industry claims

Landmark study finds 1.4m being harmed and 1.5m at risk as government readies to unveil reform

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Hope for infertile men as scientists 3D print living testicular cells

Scientists in Canada have 3D-printed viable human testicular cells that they hope will eventually yield sperm from patients with forms of infertility that currently cannot be treated. The team at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver has been using a 3D bioprinter to create life-size models of human seminiferous tubules – the structures inside the testicles that normally produce sperm.

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Psychedelic Medicine: LSD, a Future Anti-Anxiety Pill?

The craze for psychedelics used for therapeutic purposes is real. However, the scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness and explaining their mode of action in treating mental health disorders is still very thin. A new study led by Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a senior scientist in the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), sheds light on previously unexplained neurobiological mechanisms by which LSD is believed to relieve anxiety.

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How the Sun Will Die

very day, when you wake up, the Sun is there to greet you and wish you a good morning. True, sometimes it’s hidden behind some meddling clouds, but you still know it’s there. It cares for you. Most people prefer the days when the Sun shines upon us without any atmospheric interferences. All people love the warmth and heat it provides. It makes life possible and it makes life worth living (imagine living in an ever-dark Blade Runner-Cyberpunk dystopia — depression would be very, very common). But, what the Sun gives it can also take away.

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A New Type of Hand Prosthesis Learns From the User, and the User Learns From the Prosthesis

Researchers have developed a new, fully automated prosthetic arm that learns during normal use and adapts to varying conditions.

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A.I. could open new routes to psychiatric treatments by mapping psychedelic trips in the brain

Researchers use artificial intelligence to map people’s subjective experiences while using psychedelics to specific regions of the brain, down to the molecular level.

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Deep-Sea Octopuses Are Making Shelters Out Of Human Trash

One man’s trash is an octopus’ treasure. A group of researchers from Italy and Brazil wanted to take a closer at how deep-sea octopuses interact with trash that makes its way to the ocean after being discarded by humans.

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Solar Vs. Wind Power: Which Energy Is Best?

We compare and contrast the histories, benefits and future of using wind power versus solar power. Click to see our industry analysis.

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There are now enough solar panels on Earth to power the whole of Europe

There are now enough solar panels installed throughout the world to generate 1 terawatt (TW) of electricity from the sun, according to the latest estimates, marking a major milestone for renewable energy adoption.

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As NASA rolls out its new mega-rocket, it leaves behind a fraught history

SLS is delayed, over budget, and about to make its big debut.

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Men are more likely than women to experience strong negative emotions in response to gender threats

It is commonly known that threats to masculinity can lead to very negative reactions from men, but do gender threats have similar outcomes when directed toward women? A study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology aims to answer this question and measure emotional effects of gender threats.

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Physicists Think They've Finally Cracked Stephen Hawking's Famous Black Hole Paradox

At the heart of every black hole sits a problem. As they sizzle away into nothingness over the eons, they take with them a small piece of the Universe. Which, quite frankly, just isn't in the rule book.

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A New Study Has Identified a Dominant Force Driving Evolution on Earth Today

Mounting evidence suggests humans are now a major driving force of evolution on Earth. From selective breeding to environmental modifications, we're altering so much of our world that we're not only now driving the climate, but the direction of life

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Covid-19 Can Cause Brain Shrinkage? Let’s Check Facts!

Fortunately, the Covid pandemic and its effects are powering down these days. There are fewer Covid positive reports and an increasing number of survivors.

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Ukraine joins European power grid, ending its dependence on Russia

Grid operators had been preparing such a move after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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Cloud seeding might not be as promising as drought-troubled states hope

On mountain peaks scattered across Colorado, machines are set up to fire chemicals into the clouds in attempts to generate snow. The process is called cloud seeding, and as global temperatures rise, more countries and drought-troubled states are using it in sometimes desperate efforts to modify the weather.

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Hubble Space Telescope spots eerie galaxy 'eye' staring across the universe

A new Hubble Space Telescope clearly captures the heart of a distant galaxy structured much like our own. The new image shows the "eye" of a galaxy called NGC 1097, which is located 48 million light-years away from Earth. NGC 1097 is a barred spiral galaxy, which puts it in the same category as the Milky Way.

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In Change of Strategy, Russian Space Program Begs NASA for Help

The head of Russia’s space program is apparently changing his tune. Dmitry Rogozin, the director general of Russian space agency Roscosmos, appealed to NASA for help in the wake of incredibly restrictive economic sanctions on his home country over the weekend. Strangely, that message comes after weeks of spouting pro-Putin and anti-US propaganda, not to mention belligerent threats about the International Space Station, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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In the attention economy, writing still packs a punch

For some audiences—particularly top business execs—written content is indispensable in researching important decisions. Here’s how PR pros are thinking about their skill sets.

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The human brain would rather look at nature than city streets

There is a scientific reason that humans feel better walking through the woods than strolling down a city street, according to a new publication from UO physicist Richard Taylor and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators. The group examined the question: “What happens in your brain when you walk down the street?” and they concluded that urban environments are not pleasing to the human brain.

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New psychology research indicates hatred toward collective entities inspires meaning in life

“I think that any casual observer of human nature recognizes that many prominent cultural figures or political movements gain a lot of steam when they have a clear, identifiable enemy that they are fighting against. I started reflecting more on why this might be, and it occurred to me that having an enemy, someone to hate, might energize people,”...

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Black hole “billiards” may explain strange aspects of 2019 black hole merger

In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitational wave signal from a black hole merger that proved to be one for the record books. Dubbed "GW190521," it was the most massive and most distant yet detected, and it produced the most energetic signal detected thus far, showing up in the data as more of a "bang" than the usual "chirp."

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Hubble catches a cosmic illusion predicted by Einstein 86 years ago

IN 1936, Einstein predicted a cosmic optical illusion — but he thought we'd never be able to see it. Since, astronomers have bore witness to several of these rare tricks.

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Childhood lead exposure reduced IQ scores for half of Americans, study says

Exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas slashed hundreds of millions of collective IQ points from about half of the Americans alive today, a new study reports.

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Hubble telescope captures spectacular laser-like jet from infant star (photo)

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a laser-like jet that represents a "tantrum" being thrown by an infant star. The outburst came from a very young star just starting its evolution, and the image shows a jet of gas traveling supersonically. The glow you see in the image comes from the jet colliding with gas and dust around the star, officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) wrote in an image description on Monday (March 7).

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Static electricity can keep desert solar panels free of dust

Static electricity could remove dust from desert solar panels, saving around 10 billion gallons of water every year. Some of the largest solar farms in the world are in deserts, such as Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in the United Arab Emirates and Desert Sunlight Solar Farm in California. These environments tend to be very dusty, with particles quickly accumulating on solar panels. One month’s dust build-up can cut a solar panel’s output by around 40 per cent.

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Inside NASA's messy plan to return to the moon by 2024

NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return the first humans to the moon since 1972, is severely over budget and delayed, the space agency’s inspector general warned recently. Speaking during a meeting of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on March 1, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin took issue with the performance of private contractors Boeing and Lockheed Martin, saying that industry contracts favored the companies to the agency’s detriment.

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Construction begins on the US' first-ever offshore wind farm service operations vessel

Meet the "Eco Edison," which will be the first Jones Act-qualified offshore wind farm service operations vessel in the US.  

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