Using quantum tunneling to harvest electricity from Earth’s radiant heat involves a specifically designed antenna that can identify this excess heat as high-frequency electromagnetic waves.
Only a drastic improvement in efficiency would allow the planet to manage a higher standard of living.
Computer scan of existing databases spits out materials that are only atoms thick.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, now 3.79 billion miles from Earth, snapped these images of Kuiper Belt Objects. They’re the furthest images ever taken away from Earth.
Scientists have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science.
The tundra of Eurasia and North America contains twice as much mercury as the rest of the world combined.
In the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a team of astronomers recently searched through the Kepler field to look for signatures of technologically-advanced civilizations.
Recent tests of car exhaust on monkeys have renewed the debate around animal testing. Researchers say there are alternatives that are less cruel.
Austrian researches have started a three-week simulated mission to Mars in Oman's barren desert.
Scientists have been hard at work trying to determine the densities of the TRAPPIST-1 planets, and it looks like water is abundant in the TRAPPIST system.
Due to rising concerns surrounding air pollution-related deaths, China is trying to invest more heavily in renewable energy projects.
SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy; Elon Musk's Tesla is enroute Mars' orbit.
The Netherland's national railway company, NS, has announced that all of its electric passenger trains are now 100 percent powered by wind energy.
A team from Singapore has devised a "fast, cheap and green method" to convert cotton-based fabric waste such as unwanted clothing into a type of aerogel.
A team from Australia have found a "quantum hack" - a way to modify qubit surface codes, improving quantum error correction by up to four hundred per cent.
