Rethink Robotics, the Boston-based robotics company behind the Baxter robot which DARPA programmed to teach itself how to cook by watching instructional...
While the chemical process through which mushrooms generate light is still unknown, U.S. and Brazilian researchers behind a recent study believe that...
Scientists at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) have developed a new light bending...
Colombia released 149 trafficked animals back into the wild Amazon on Tuesday after seizing them from animal traffickers. Prior to returning to...
A tiny parasite known as Pleistophora mulleri seems to play a role in cannibalistic behavior exhibited in a species of freshwater shrimp...
A recent analysis of a ninth century ring inscribed with “for Allah” or “to Allah” has lead researchers to explore a potential...
The galaxy that contains our Solar System, known as the Milky Way, may host billions of planets in the “habitable zone,” which...
While obesity and smoking are but a couple of the known risk factors for early mortality, psychologists at Brigham Young University in...
California is in its fourth year of what has become one of the most severe droughts in the history of the state...
Oregon State University’s DARPA-funded ATRIAS is a super-fast bipedal robot which is currently in training to become the fastest bipedal robot in...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has teamed up with San Francisco’s Osterhout Design Group in order to create an augmented-reality...
This new video of the ATRIAS robot shows the bipedal machine doing a two-step while researchers pummel it with dodgeballs in preparation...
NASA launched an Atlas 5 rocket carrying four magnetic explosion probes on Thursday night as part of their $1.1 billion Magnetospheric Multiscale...
Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a new machine which is capable of making molecules; essentially, a molecular 3D printer...
Engineers at University of California at Berkeley have developed a synthetic color-changing “skin” reminiscent of a chameleon’s active camouflage. In order to...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reports that researchers in the country have successfully transmit wireless electric power to a pinpoint target...
Officials with the National Park Service are warning swimmers to keep their eyes pealed for plumes of algae across Nevada’s Lake Mead...
Saturn’s sixth-largest moon Enceladus, which was first discovered back in 1789 by William Herschel, is home to an ice-covered sea which might...
Researchers at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) have discovered some 1,451 sea creatures in the last year which include 131...
Researchers examining a set of eagle talons discovered in present-day Croatia recently realized that the approximately 130,000-year-old claws were manipulated into jewelry...