Garden peas are probably the last thing you'd ever expect to go into your gin and tonic. But, scientists at Abertay University and the James Hutton Institute in Scotland have...
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared an international public health emergency over the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus. One day later, the Wellcome Trust research charity called for...
Full disclosure: In the process of writing this, I've touched my face not one, not two, but 37 times. I started counting after Face Touch #3, when I realized I...
Some 80 million passengers fly through London's Heathrow Airport each year, but to boost its capacity by another 50 million, the airport seeks to add a third runway. This could...
Researchers have developed a new personalized learning robot for autistic children that uses machine learning to adapt its lessons to each kid’s changing needs. The University of Southern California team put a “socially assistive robot”...
Credit: Artist’s impression of Mars InSight. NASA/JPL-Caltech Most space missions investigate the surface or atmosphere of a body. But NASA’s InSight probe, which landed on Mars in November 2018, is...
The prospect of contacting sentient aliens is a staple of science fiction. Of course, we have yet to (knowingly) find any; and it’s not impossible (albeit unlikely) that we are...
Some 8,000 miles from the elegantly carpeted U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., lies an eerie, dark, underwater place — a place that threatens to redraw maps all over the globe....
Astronomers from the Catalina Sky Survey yesterday announced they’d found a second natural satellite orbiting the Earth. It looks like our planet and its long-standing partner Luna have decided to...
Scientists have created a prototype of a new AI-powered wearable that could save lives and dramatically reduce hospitalization rates by predicting heart failure days before it happens. The adhesive patch —...
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