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By eliminating hops, brewers can make a more sustainable product. But are...
Credit: subman via Getty ImagesCraft beer is big business. One out of every eight beers sold in the United States in 2016 was a craft beer, defined as beer made using traditional fermentation methods...
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A series of reports compiled by nearly 600 scientists meeting in Medellin,...
Credit: Joaquin Sariento/AFP/Getty ImagesHuman activity has driven animals and plants into decline in every region of the world, putting our own well-being at risk by over-harvesting and polluting, a...
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The European Space Agency predicts portions of the lab will survive a fiery...
Credit: CMSAChina's Tiangong-1 space lab will likely fall to Earth between March 30 and April 2, according to the latest prediction by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office in...
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New research overturns the theory that the ability to float led to large and...
Credit: Patrick Dykstra/Barcroft Images/Barcroft Media via Getty ImagesThe blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth. Growing up to 108 feet long, it may...
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A mass migration of 50 million people is projected by 2050 due to land...
Credit: Orjan F. Ellingvag/Dagens Naringsliv/Corbis via Getty ImagesLand degradation will unleash a mass migration of at least 50 million people by 2050 — as many as 700 million unless humans stop...
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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk highlights in a new article progress with...
Credit: George Rose/Getty ImagesSpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk plans to send the first colonists to Mars around 2024, although he acknowledges in a new article for the journal New Space that the...
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The novel European Space Agency technology would scoop up atmospheric...
Credit: ESA/SitaelFor the first time, the European Space Agency (ESA) has tested a novel air-breathing electric thruster that could allow near-Earth orbiting satellites to stay in space almost...
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A new galaxy called NGC1052-DF2, or DF2 for short, challenges prevailing...
Credit: P. van Dokkum; R. Abraham; STScI, Space Telescope Science InstituteAstronomers have found a perplexing galaxy that appears to be nearly devoid of dark matter. Since the prevailing notion is...
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Analysis of moon rocks collected during the Apollo missions and volcanic...
Credit: Vitalij Cerepok/EyeEm via Getty ImagesMost of our planet’s water has been present since very early on, even before a giant impact from a Mars-sized object that created the moon. Despite that...
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Mathematical models show that the trademark popping sound comes from the...
Credit: Image Source via Getty ImagesBored and anxious humans have long ‘cracked’ their knuckles. But only in the past 60 years have scientists put serious thought into the physics of...
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Amid new US government subsidies for carbon-capture technologies, a study...
Capturing the carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels could play a major role in heading off the worst of climate change — but like the proverbial dog that caught the car, what happens then?...
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InSight is the first NASA mission to examine the interior of Mars.
A new NASA mission will help answer questions about martian volcanoes — how long they were active and when — and Marsquakes by examining the Red Planet's interior activity. InSight, short for Interior...
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Newly discovered sites shed new light on what was thought to be a sparsely...
Credit: University of ExeterUp to a million people may have lived in a part of the southern Amazon basin in the centuries before European colonization, building a network of villages surrounded by...
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North Africa’s vast desert grew by 10 percent in the past century, driven...
Credit: Athanasios Gioumpasis/Getty ImagesThe Sahara is creeping. New research shows that the desert covering much of North Africa has expanded by 10 percent in the past century, a potential...
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The only civil war ever observed in wild chimpanzees was fueled by power,...
Credit: Penelope Breese/Liaison via Getty ImagesLeakey was for many years a respected leader in Tanzania. When he died in October 1970, a large male named Humphrey rose from the beta to the alpha...
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Four eyes are better than two, or at least that was the case for a monitor...
Credit: Wikimedia CommonsNearly all animals have two eyes, but there are rare exceptions. Crustaceans in the appropriately named family Cyclopidae, aka Cyclops, for example, see their world through a...
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IBM has developed the world’s smallest computer, which could help track...
Credit: IBM ResearchA computer as big as a grain of salt could transform shipping that crisscrosses the planet, said IBM researchers who recently unveiled the experimental device. Using blockchain...
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An improved gravitational lensing technique provides a glimpse of Icarus, a...
Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Kelly (University of Minnesota)Gravitational lensing has become a remarkably handy tool, as astronomers are refining and enhancing the ways they can use what has been called...
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Producing cheap, carbon-free, and nearly unlimited energy through the process...
Credit: Ken Filar, PSFC research affiliateThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is betting big on nuclear fusion, launching a commercial spinoff aimed at harnessing the long-elusive technology...
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The Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator would travel at 1.4 times the speed of sound...
Credit: NASA/Lockheed MartinNASA has taken a huge leap forward in its quest to create an aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound without causing an ear-splitting sonic boom. The space...
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