The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online

Experts are split on whether the coming years will see less misinformation online. Those who foresee improvement hope for technological and societal solutions.

UK supercomputer storage expands making it the world’s largest

Jasmin network supercomputer storage expands to 20PB of Panasas scale-out NAS, which has helped to cut analysis times for environmental data from days to hours.

Preparing Self-Driving Cars for the Wild World of Developing Cities

Self-driving cars no longer confined to controlled test tracks or even to placid suburban streets - they’re preparing for the day they can purify our chaotic streets with their robotic perfection.

The world's most sustainable building is also the smartest

This Amsterdam office block is packed with 30,000 sensors to control everything from lighting to where it would be best for people to work.

Richard Branson leads green energy plan to rebuild Caribbean

The focal point of the recovery plan is to trigger the replacement of outdated fossil-fuel power grids with new renewable energy-based energy systems that will have the ability to endure extreme weather conditions.

Wind ‘breaks EU record’

WindEurope says 24.6% of Europe’s power met by sector on 28 October

This high-tech solar funnel allows plants to grow deep underground

Invasive Regeneration uses a high-powered, solar-powered funnel installed at street level to shoot light onto a concrete block underground, allowing vegetation to grow in an otherwise inhospitable environment.

Plantagon's ‘plantscraper’ aims to produce 500 metric tons of food a year

Part urban farm, part skyscraper, these vertical greenhouses could provide large-scale organic food production in cities, with a much smaller energy and carbon footprint than industrial agriculture.

NASA investigates invisible magnetic bubbles in outer solar system

NASA has launched a fleet of missions to study the planets in our solar system -- many of which have sent back crucial information about magnetospheres.

Jupiter's two strange auroras pulse to their own X-ray beat

Scientists have detected a powerful X-ray aurora hotspot near Jupiter's south pole and it does not behave how they expected.

Ghana to welcome its first PET bottle recycling facility

Within two to three years, a collection system and modern recycling facility for PET bottles will start up in Ghana.

Earth Microbiome Project Seeks to Map Planet’s Microbial Diversity

A new study outlines the “crazy idea” that led to a project described by one scientist as the “Google database for microbes.”

UK's new ‘accelerator on a chip’ could revolutionize medical care

Researchers at Stanford University are developing a linear accelerator that is the size of a chip — instead of two miles long — and it could herald a medical breakthrough.

New Zealand considering special visas for climate refugees

New Zealand is thinking about "an experimental humanitarian visa category" for people uprooted from their homes because of climate change.

World's quickest laser pulse can track electrons in slow motion

Scientists have shortened X-ray pulses so dramatically that they can watch electrons move at a glacial pace.