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.
If successful, Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful working rocket in use, the rocket that could go to Mars.
When up up and running it is expected to treat up to 2 million tons of solid waste every year. This is almost 60% of Dubai’s annual garbage production.
Hornsea Project One is expected to be operational in 2020, and it will produce power for more than one million homes.
In a historic vote, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong voted 49-4 to ban the trade of ivory by 2021.
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the most extreme instances of magnification by gravitational lensing.
Chile currently gets between 35-40% of its electricity from coal but the the country's environment minister has just hailed "the beginning of the end of coal".
An EU official noted “with satisfaction” Cuba’s ambitious goal of having 24 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2030.
