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Researchers at New York University are using machine-learning technology and...
Credit: Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty ImagesCar horns, sirens, drilling, jet overflights, and restaurants where diners have to yell to be heard — New York is one of the loudest cities in...
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Using powdered metal and high-powered lasers, this additive manufacturing...
Credit: GEThe world of 3D printing is about to be shaken by a new titan. Reports from this week's Paris Air Show buzzed about the imminent arrival of the world's largest laser-powered 3D printer that...
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Ancient monuments, clay tablets, paintings, and photographs reveal the power...
Credit: Bjorn Holland/Getty ImagesIt is hard to overestimate how important solar eclipses were to early humans. The names of several ancient Hawaiian leaders provide evidence of the significance of...
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Two European satellites, known as Sentinel-1, peer through clouds and...
Credit: European Space AgencyThe Larsen C ice shelf is about to calve one of the biggest icebergs on record. The iceberg-to-be is hanging on by a thread, with just eight miles of solid ice standing...
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Nearly a third of the world's largest ocean species may have died during what...
Credit: Mary Parrish, Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural HistoryThe largest known shark that ever lived, Carcharocles megalodon, ruled the seas for over 20 million years. The enormous toothy...
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The brightest light ever produced can be used to change the way light...
Credit: University of Nebraska-LincolnResearchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have generated the brightest light ever produced on Earth, and it may change the way we look at the universe –...
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Greenland contains enough ice to lift oceans by about 23 feet — and its...
Credit: Dan Bach KristensenOcean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just...
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The new species, tentatively called Bermanella macondoprimitus, was the...
Credit: US Coast Guard via Getty ImagesScientists have identified a new microbe that helped break down the oil released by the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, part of a new study that...
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A new study finds that the seeds for supermassive black holes were planted...
Credit: Ute Kraus/Wikipedia, CC BY-SAFor decades, while astronomers have detected black holes equal in mass either to a few suns or millions of suns, the missing-link black holes in between have...
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A focus on male mice models in clinical trials has big implications for the...
Credit: ThinkstockThere’s been a lot of talk about gender discrimination in the work place. But what about gender discrimination in the petri dish? It turns out that male cells and male animal models...
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Scientists have long pondered the strange qualities of water, and researchers...
Credit: Mattias KarlénWater may seem simple enough. But it’s actually a bizarre substance with outlandish chemical properties that combine to make life on Earth possible as we know it. Consider just...
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Mayors from over 300 US cities say they will honor the Paris Agreement on...
Credit: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord has triggered a bipartisan push from US mayors to stick to the emissions cuts Washington had pledged to...
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The border collies, named Berkeley, Piper, Marcy, and Kayle, are part of a...
Credit: Everett Historical/ShutterstockA search party set sail for a remote Pacific island this weekend to look for clues about the fate of Amelia Earhart. The American aviation pioneer disappeared 80...
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Sonnet Labs has launched a crowdfunding campaign to develop a two-way system...
Credit: Sonnet LabsNo cellular service? No Wi-Fi? No problem. A Toronto startup is hawking a mobile phone add-on that lets users communicate without any cellular signal or wireless network...
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Researchers genetically engineered rice to produce anthocyanins, which are...
Credit: Qinlong Zhu, South China Agricultural UniversityPurple rice could help billions of people get their vitamins, Chinese researchers claim. Publishing their findings today in the journal...
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Tall wood construction is less carbon intensive than concrete or steel, but...
Credit: University of British ColumbiaA century ago, concrete and steel allowed cities to reach for the skies. But the materials that made possible landmarks like New York City’s Empire State and...
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An ingredient commonly used in sunscreen and other cosmetics, avobenzone, can...
Credit: Justin Paget/Getty ImagesAn ingredient commonly used in sunscreen can break down into toxic chemicals when exposed to chlorinated water and sunlight, a team of Russian researchers found. The...
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A total solar eclipse will sweep across the continental United States on Aug....
Credit: Wikimedia CommonsA total solar eclipse is arguably the single most magnificent astronomical phenomenon that people on Earth will ever get to see — and the next one will sweep across the...
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On June 30 — International Asteroid Day — skywatchers are raising awareness...
Credit: Detlev van Ravenswaay/Picture Press/Getty ImagesThroughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummeled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in...
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A commentary in the journal Nature says we have three years to avoid the...
Credit: Pamela AndradeHumanity must put carbon dioxide emissions on a downward slope by 2020 to have a realistic shot at capping global warming at well under two degrees Celsius, the bedrock goal of...
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