By Alton Parrish. Three-dimensional printers can make artists’ and hobbyists’ dreams a reality, opening up a new world of inexpensive, on-demand plastic parts manufacturing, producing anything from garden gnome figurines to nuts and screws, [...]

By Alton Parrish. Blue-green in colour, slimy and present in seas and fresh water worldwide – the presence of microalgae is not generally met with great excitement. But this may be about to change. A team of European scientists is on [...]

By Jaime Ortega. The Center for Engineering and Industrial Development (CIDESI) developed software for a surveillance system that can detect the behavior of people and analyzes the movement of objects, a method that can distinguish when an [...]

  By NASA. NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind portable radar device to detect the heartbeats and breathing patterns of victims trapped in large piles of rubble resulting from a disaster. The [...]

By CSIRO. An international team of astronomers using CSIRO radio telescopes and other ground and space-based instruments has caught a small star called a pulsar undergoing a radical transformation, described today in the journal Nature. “For [...]

By Nasa. Southeastern China was hit by the most powerful typhoon of 2013 on Sept. 22, when Typhoon Usagi came ashore landfall in the Guangdong Province during the evening. NASA’s TRMM satellite observed very heavy rainfall just south [...]

By University of Austin Texas. A recently published study strongly suggests men succumb to sexual temptations more than women — for example, cheating on a partner — because they experience strong sexual impulses, not because they have [...]

By University of Leeds. Scientists at the University of Leeds have solved a 300-year-old riddle about which direction the centre of Earth spins. Seismic probing of the earth’s deep interior has shown that the inner core, the solid core [...]

  By Europlanet. Aram Chaos, the lumpy, bumpy floor of an ancient impact crater on Mars, formed as a result of catastrophic melting and outflow of a buried ice lake. A new study combines observations from satellite photos of the 280 [...]

By Alton Parrish.   The shape of the universe may be dramatically different than before thought, a group of researchers now says. Researchers investigating a major anomaly in the afterglow of the Big Bang suggest the fabric of space and [...]

By University of Copenhagen. Mercenary soldiers are notoriously unreliable because their loyalty is as thin as the banknotes they get paid, and they may turn against their employers before moving on to the next dirty job. Not so in fungus-farming [...]

By NASA. On Friday, Sept. 6, NASAo launched a small satellite mission, called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), which will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about its atmosphere and the role of dust in [...]

By LSU. What happens when you tell a lie? Set aside your ethical concerns for a moment—after all, lying is a habit we practice with astonishing dexterity and frequency, whether we realize it or not. What goes on in your brain when you willfully [...]

By PCAS. The Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program aims to improve air-to-ground fire coordination, but could revolutionize military tech development and deployment as well Air-ground fire coordination—also known as Close Air Support [...]

  By Roberts Andrew Ye. Supervolcanoes, such as the one sitting dormant under Yellowstone National Park, are capable of producing eruptions thousands of times more powerful than normal volcanic eruptions. While they only happen every [...]

By Alton Parrish. Submarine canyons play an important role in maintaining high levels of biodiversity of small invertebrates in the seafloor sediments of the main and northwestern Hawaiian Islands, according to research from the University [...]

By Alton Parrish. Writer and explorer Sy Montgomery is delving into the mind of the world’s most intelligent invertebrate, and bringing back stories to tell to both children and adults. “You are what you eat” is a truism for foodies, [...]

By European Space Station. Scientists using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope have discovered that a curious dead star has been hiding one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe all along, despite earlier suggestions of an unusually [...]

By Nasa. NASA released new photos and video animations depicting the agency’s planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. The images depict crew operations including the Orion spacecraft’s trip [...]

By NOAA. Two coronal mass ejections are heading towards Earth.  For the second day in a row the sun has erupted sending  cloud of electrically charged particles in our direction. On August 21, 2013 at 1:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with [...]