The future looks bright--maybe too bright. The sun is slowly expanding and brightening, and over the next few billion years it will eventually desiccate Earth, leaving it hot, brown and uninhabitable. About 7.6 billion years from now, the sun will reach its maximum size as a red giant: its surface will extend beyond Earth’s orbit today by 20%
Turkey guts, junked car parts, and even raw sewage go in one end of this plant, and black gold comes out the other end.
Six physicists weigh in on the impact of the LHC and where science goes from here.
The turquoise waters of Miami, Florida, gleam underneath the International Space Station as it floats some 240 miles (390 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. The orbiting lab has hosted a rotating international crew since November 2000.
Virologists have a new weapon in the war against viruses – a way to tag and track individual viruses that are too small to be viewed with light microscopes.
Tesla coils, superconductors, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about physics. Here are some of our favorites.
This is the beginning of the America's dark future.
The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad.Georgia Tech researchers believe a magnetic, tongue-powered system could transform a disabled person's mouth into a virtual computer...
It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide who have awaited this moment for two decades
Using time-lapse photography and real-time digital video, plant biologist Roger Hangarter and undergrad filmmaker Samuel Orr captured this remarkable life cycle in a 5-minute film complete with soundtrack and descriptive text.
Whether they are blasting apart subatomic particles in accelerators, sequencing the genome or analyzing the wobble of a distant star, the experiments that grab the world's attention often cost millions of dollars to execute and produce torrents of data to be processed over months by supercomputers. Some research groups have grown to the size of...
The technology will be utilized in the development and creation of various algae species targeted to high yield per acre and high levels of usable alternative oil for heating and fuel.
Archaeologists have unearthed the mysterious remains of what first appears to be a couple buried together arm in arm more than 1,000 years ago.
The man in the cheap brown jacket stood slumped in line, staring at the ground. His hands were fidgety, reaching repeatedly into his inside jacket pocket, or patting it from the outside. A momentary look of anguish, just 1/15th of a second or so, occasionally flashed across his face
The start up of the biggest experiment on the planet has inspired a science rap song that has become an unlikely global hit.
Woolly mammoths migrated to North America, then back to Siberia, according to a new scientific analysis.
If you think that the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is going to be boring, you haven't seen this yet.