A crashed drone on Mars?
A photograph of what looks like a machine that has crashed on Mars or was abandoned there, may have been a drone, says a...
14,000-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement found in Jersey
Remains of a 14,000-year-old hunter gatherer settlement have been discovered by archaeologists from University College London (UCL) and the University of Manchester. They say...
Human-to-robot empathy is possible, say researchers
Is human-to-robot empathy possible? That is, can we feel empathy toward humanoid robots? Researchers from Toyohashi University of Technology and Kyoto University believe we...
Europe’s oldest tree is changing sex
A 5,000-year-old Fortingall Yew in Perthshire, Scotland, possibly the oldest tree in Europe, is changing sex, a scientist from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh informed....
BAE systems acquires 20% stake in Reaction Engines
BAE Systems acquired a 20% stake in Reaction Engines for £20.6 million.
Reaction Engines is an aerospace manufacturer based in Oxfordshire developing a hybrid...
Antarctica is gaining ice, new NASA study shows
After years of gloom and doom warnings by experts that the poles are melting rapidly and sea levels will shoot up, a new NASA...
Acid fog in Mars eats at rocks
Mars has acid fog that scientists believe may have eaten at rocks in a 100-acre area on Husband hill in the Columbia Hills of...
Ancient Kazakhstan patterns baffle NASA scientists
NASA scientists cannot explain how some huge Kazakhstan patterns got there, what they are, how or who made them, or what they are for....
The coywolf, a wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, is America’s top dog
Over the past two centuries, the North American wolf has bred with the coyote, creating a fierce predator, which has also bred with large...
Rare Omura’s whales filmed for the first time
The first-ever field observations of Omura's whales, the world’s rarest whales, have been made by an international team of scientists off the coast of...