Virgin Galactic makes it to space
Virgin Galactic has officially made it to space, with humans on board, the company announced. Its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket reached an altitude of 82.8...
Organically farmed food worse for climate than conventionally farmed food
Organically farmed food is worse for our planet's climate than conventionally farmed food, says a team of researchers. The main reason is that organic...
MIT scientists find way to shrink objects to one-thousandth of original size
Scientists at MIT have found a way to shrink objects to one-thousandth of their original size. They can now fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of...
Green plants generate electricity – 150 volts per leaf
Did you know that green plants can generate electricity? A single leaf can generate over 150 volts. A team of researchers in Italy say...
1.5 magnitude tremor stops fracking in Lancashire, England
A 1.5 magnitude tremor stopped fracking at Cuadrilla's shale gas exploration site in Preston New Road, Lancashire.
According to Cuadrilla Resources, the 1.5 magnitude tremor...
Outbred mice perhaps better than inbred mice for most animal studies
More than half of all non-human subjects of biomedical research are mice. Most of them are inbred mice. In other words, the parents of...
Scientists convert wet biological waste into fuel we can blend with diesel
A team of scientists has converted wet biological waste into diesel-compatible fuel. We are now a step closer to producing renewable engine fuels from...
Material that thickens as you stretch it discovered by scientists
Scientists at the University of Leeds have discovered a material that thickens as you stretch it. It is the first synthetic material that thickens...
Device sucks drinking water from desert air
Researchers at KAUST in Saudi Arabia have developed a device that sucks drinking water from dry desert air. KAUST stands for King Abdulla University...
Crushed mining waste could replace 10% of cement used in concrete
Ten percent of the cement we use in concrete could come from crushed mining waste, say researchers from the Technical University Of Denmark (Danmarks...