The oldest planetary system yet discovered consists of a prehistoric star that has five planets orbiting around it. Labeled Kepler 444, ...
By Magdalena Mis, Thomson Reuters Foundation
A new generation of solar panels made from a mineral called perovskite has the potential to convert solar energy into household electricity ...
By Matt Waterson (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Cars are ubiquitous in the Western world, especially in the United States. However, many developing parts of the world lack the infrastructure to ...
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on some dubious, privacy robbing practices of the United States government, now thinks ...
By Abigail James (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Doomsday is the closest it's been since 1953, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' "Doomsday Clock." The clock now stands at three minutes ...
By Abigail James (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
The wireless phone game may soon be changing up. Currently there are four major names competing for customers, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. ...
Drug smuggling has entered the high-tech age. A drone carrying methamphetamine, a stimulant that goes under the street names of "crank" and ...
California-based rocket company SpaceX has received a $1 billion investment from Google and Fidelity. The sudden influx of cash now brings the ...
By Matt Waterson (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Online streaming giant Netflix has finished 2014 with 57.4 million subscribers, up more than four million from their third quarter figures; making ...
As the recent attack on Sony Pictures by purported agents from North Korea prove, the more things change - the more they remain the same. ...
By Abigail James (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
"Designer babies" may soon be a reality as major strides have been made in germ-line genetic modifications. Dr. Tony Perry, of the University of ...
By Abigail James (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
A secret radar device, able to detect if anyone is inside a building, is now being used by at least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies. According to ...
By Abigail James (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Ebola antibodies are being brewed up in cloned, genetically engineered, cattle. These animals were created with hopes of finding a way to treat the ...
According to archaeologists, prehistoric hunters in Greenland lived through a "Meteorite Age." Hunters at that time mined metal from fallen space ...
Among the densest objects in the known universe, just a spoonful of matter from a star made of neutrons could conceivably weigh more than the ...
That's a lot of beans. The world's largest ship, Hong-Kong registered CSCL Globe, is longer than The Shard is tall, arrived in Britain for the ...
Scientists are being cautious - but there is new photographic evidence that life may at one time existed on the red Planet. Photographs beamed ...
By Abigail James (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
A recent study of the web, designed to dissect traffic to hidden websites, revealed a shocking reality that most of hidden-site traffic goes to sites ...
Hopes are high in the new year for one of the most astounding machines ever built by humanity. The Large Hadron Collider in Cern, Switzerland, is ...
Personal robots have long been present in science-fiction literature and movies. A robotics company in Santa Monica, California now claims that ...
By Matt Waterson (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Another Chinese tech company has jumped up the rankings to dominate new markets, this time in the hotly contended arena of smartphones.
It's being described as a "Noah's Ark" designed to serve as a bank for the preservation of every living thing on the planet. Moscow State University ...
It's being called the "Instagram rapture" - millions of Instagram users' accounts have been deleted, as if in captured up into the clouds. It was a ...
The Kepler planet hunting probe has detected another Earth-like planet 180 light-years from the Sun. The planet is massive and hot and uninhabitable, ...
A futuristic plane that could fly anyone anywhere in the world in four hours or less, as well as carry spaceships out of the atmosphere without ...
Belches...and worse, could have just proven the evidence of life on Mars. NASA's Curiosity Rover has detected mysterious spikes of methane. These ...
Automation works well if it spares humans from dangerous and monotonous tasks. While many have lost their line of work in assembly lines to ...
By Abigail James (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Approximately five million people in the United States suffer from Alzheimer's. 65 percent of those patients wander. They get up in the middle of the ...
