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Methane gas fermented in the guts of farm animals contribute up to 26 percent of U.S. methane emissions.

If you can't join us in person for our Future of Learning event this evening at Singularity University, don't worry. You can watch the livestream from the comfort of your own home...

A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory combined powerful magnetic pulses with some of the brightest X-rays on the planet to discover a surprising 3-D arrangement of a ...

The MAVEN orbiter is trying to figure out why the Red Planet lost all its water - and a massive solar flare in March could help

Bacteria in the gut have been shown to help or hinder cancer treatments in mice - diet changes or probiotics could be used to improve therapies

Two daredevils, Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet, recently completed a jaw dropping stunt by flying by a commercial jetliner using jetpacks.

Tummy tucks have a higher rate of major complications than other cosmetic plastic-surgery procedures, according to a new study.

"Technology isn't enough," even for a tech startup. Technology is merely the how of a much deeper story. So said Kevin Starr to the startup founders participating in the Singularity...

A one-year-old girl is in remission after receiving an experimental therapy that used genetically engineered T-cells from a donor to kill her cancer

A bus driver suffered a tiny burn in his and lost some of his vision after a child a the bus pointed a laser into the rearview mirror.

Tiny cages with nanowire bars could block light from entering or exiting, but allow other materials through - which might be useful for biomedicine

Two daredevils strapped to jetpacks zoom by the world's largest commercial jetliner in a stunning new video.

Humanity is standing on a precipice. We have never been closer to achieving a world where everyone has the ability to live and thrive. Biotech, nanotech and AI promise to...

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Andrea Palmer: Mechanical Engineering & Entrepreneur Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate British Columbia, Canada We often cannot plan for the transformative moments in our lives. Though we try, these moments...

Ohio State University study finds only 41% of women eligible for a dual chemo treatment actually received it. In advanced cases, where surgery removed tumors, dual dose chemotherapy dramatically increased survival rate.

Less than 20 years ago the world learned that the universe is expanding ever faster, propelled by dark energy. The discovery was made possible by Type Ia supernovae; extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar in brigh...

Earth's chemical composition is drastically different from that of the rocks that helped to form the planet. Now, scientists think they may know why: The constant pummeling that formed Earth may have altered its composit...

MOBILITY matters. Losing the right to drive is, for many elderly people, as traumatic as being widowed. And, as the population ages, that trauma will be felt by more and more people in the future. Yet the safety of other...

THE idea of extracting energy from ocean waves and turning it into electricity is an alluring one. The first serious attempt to do so dates back to 1974, when Stephen Salter of Edinburgh University came up with the idea ...

SOME good ideas take years of dogged perseverance to come to fruition. That has certainly been true of a hypersonic engine which Alan Bond, a British engineer, began developing in 1982. Its first incarnation was as part ...

Dark matter particles may have interacted often with normal matter long ago, when the universe was very hot, a new study suggests.