Nature-based preschools have been popular in Europe for decades, especially in Germany and Scandinavia. Studies show that kids who learn outdoors have better academic results.
Although Cape Town has pushed back day zero – the day that the city runs out of water – until June 4, the country re-assessed the magnitude of the drought and determined that it has reached disaster proportions.
New figures show Europe added record levels of wind power last year.
An offshore seaweed farm in the North Sea will be turned into a large solar power farm that aims to pipe energy to the Dutch mainland in roughly three years.
Researchers from two teams now working with Intel have reported advances in a new quantum computing architecture, called spin qubits.
Robotics company releases video of the SpotMini, its four-legged and well-mannered machine.
Using satellite data, researchers say sea levels could rise by half an inch a year by the end of the century, which is double current projections.
The Hubble Space Telescope shows a “sparkling jewel box full of stars,” NASA says, in the central bulge of the Milky Way, with more plentiful bright blue stars in the foreground.
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.
