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DARPA Takes Aim at Space Junk
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks help solving new technical challenges in an existing program aimed at refurbishing...
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Asteroid-Mining ‘FireFlys’ Will Be Ready for Action by 2015
A second commercial venture to mine the near infinite resources of outer space has been started, and Deep Space...
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One Form of Neuron Turned into Another in Brain
A new finding by Harvard stem cell biologists turns one of the basics of neurobiology on its head –...
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Obama Promises Action on Climate Change
President Barack Obama promised to take action on climate change in his inaugural speech, putting the issue at the...
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Black Hole Collision May Have Irradiated Earth in Eighth Century
A study last year found unusually high levels of the isotope carbon-14 in ancient rings of Japanese cedar trees...
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Strongest Evidence Yet That Mars May Have Supported Life
Scientists believe they may have found the ‘strongest evidence yet’ that Mars may have supported life, but it’s unlikely...
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Astronomers Measure Nearby Universe’s ‘Cosmic Fog’
Researchers from the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet have carried out the first measurement of the intensity of the diffuse extragalactic background...
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The Climate Change Endgame
Whether in Davos or almost anywhere else that leaders are discussing the world’s problems, they are missing by far...
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Scientists Find Quadruple Helix DNA in Human Cells
While traditionally we think of only double helix DNA, scientists from Cambridge University in England have made an interesting...
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Loneliness, Like Chronic Stress, Taxes the Immune System
New research links loneliness to a number of dysfunctional immune responses, suggesting that being lonely has the potential to...