Ingredients for Life Found on Saturn’s Moon, Enceladus

Using mass spectrometry data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists found that large, carbon-rich organic molecules are ejected from cracks in the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Webb Space Telescope pushed back again, won’t launch until 2021

The James Webb Space Telescope would be the most complex imaging hardware that NASA has attempted to put into space. But so far, that complexity has driven extensive delays.

Children More Patient Now Than 50 Years Ago

Some 50 years since the 'marshmallow test' in which most kids gobbled up one treat immediately rather than wait several minutes to get two, today's youngsters may be able to delay gratification significantly longer.

Future Keyboards

South Korean researchers used carbon nanotubes and AI to create an ultra-thin portable keyboard that can be crumpled up like paper without breaking it.

Blue Origin Will Begin Selling Suborbital Tickets in 2019

However, eager spacegoers may want to reconsider rushing to fly. So far, Blue Origin has only flown its New Shepard vehicles eight times with its first launch in April 2015 proving testy.

Is Fairphone Changing the Future of Smartphones?

Not many people have heard of Fairphone, a Netherlands-based smartphone start-up. Unlike the leading brands, Fairphone is committed to ethically manufactured smartphones.

6th grader invents device that hunts for ocean microplastics

A creation is an underwater device that uses light to detect harmful pollution in the ocean and it does so without harming living organisms.

Fabric softener sales plummet, thanks to Millennials

Millennials are far more concerned about chemicals in the products they buy than their parents ever were. To them fabric softener is a big no-no, full of chemicals that coat fabrics with a light layer of lubrication.

Martian dust storm grows global

A storm of tiny dust particles on Mars has prompted NASA's Opportunity rover to suspend science operations. The Martian dust storm has grown in size and is now officially a 'planet-encircling' (or 'global') dust event.

Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in a record time

Scientists have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, and have discovered a trove of possible exoplanets amid some 50,000 stars.

Disposable 'fast fashion' in the spotlight in the UK

The environmental audit committee in UK will investigate the social and environment impact of this type of short-lived clothing and the wider industry.

Juno Spacecraft Captures the Clouds of Jupiter

NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this color-enhanced image on May 23, 2018 24), as the spacecraft performed its 13th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was 15,500 kilometers from the planet’s cloud tops.

Last of universe's missing ordinary matter

Until now, astrophysicists had only been able to locate about two-thirds of the ordinary matter. In the new research, an international team pinned down the missing third.

Project Debater can argue with humans

IBM Project Debater is the latest artificial intelligence that pulls in data from hundreds of millions of sources to win a debating argument.

Renewables Will Make Up Half of the World's Energy by 2050

The analysis is bases on two factors: one, that solar and wind power will get dramatically cheaper over the next few decades, and two, that cheap battery storage will allow more wind and solar plants to be built.