Has the world's first cold fusion plant finally been built? Andrea Rossi, an Italian physicist claims that he has built the world's first working cold fusion plant. He demonstrated his Energy Catalyzer or E-Cat machine at the University of Bologna in Italy on October 28. The machine, which fuses nickel and hydrogen to give off heat in the process, actually produced an average of 470 kilowatts for more than five hours.
European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the largest optical-infrared telescope ever to be built, is on its way to becoming a reality with the council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s approval for initial work to be done on the project.
A bright vein of mineral deposited by water has been found by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in the surface of Mars , an evidence that water was present long time ago. The vein was informally named “Homestake.”
Russian has again asked the assistance of the European Space Agency (ESA) to contact the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to avert the impending re-entry of the vehicle to the Earth’s atmosphere.
Inhibiting a brain molecule that protects against viral infections could lead the way for the development of memory- boosting drugs, according to new research.
Using MRI brain scans, researchers in Britain discovered that cab drivers had increased the grey matter in their posterior hippocampus after over three years of intensive training to memorize London's numerous street routes.
Humans are blessed with intelligence that surpasses that of other animals in the planet making us effectively, on top of the food chain, so to speak. But as with anything else, people look for more, and when it comes to intelligence, humans want to be smarter. But can humans transcend being normally smart and be super smart?
Is the image caught on camera by NASA spacecraft a cloaked UFO spaceship lurking near Mercury or just an after image of the planet itself?
For women, losing inches off the belly has always been associated to spending tons of hours at the gym, working out, and going on some impossible diet. But losing belly fat could actually be as simple as paying attention to one's body.
Wine growers in Hunter Valley who belong to the area's wine industry association sought to kick out gas giant AGL Energy Limited (ASX: AGK) from their ranks because of the firm's stand on coal seam gas (CSG).
CERN physicists are now in possession of new data that could point with greater certainty where to find the Higgs boson or “God-particle” which has long been sought by scientists.
NASA's Dawn mission to asteroid Vesta has revealed more images of the asteroid's topography and found that the asteroid has a mountain that is three times the size of Earth's Mount Everest.
Microscopic 570-million year old fossils found in China could be the oldest sample of animal life found to date.
Space is a vast and dangerous place. The enormous distances between the stars means that it would take centuries to reach the nearest star to our solar system. Alpha Centauri is only 4.27 light years from the Sun but it would still take about 50,000 years on our fastest spacecraft to reach it. Given these obstacles are the stars barred from us forever? Should we even try for interstellar spaceflight?
The moon and other planets could be severely affected by solar storms and the accompanying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) according to a research by NASA scientists.
Children subjected to physical abuse or exposed to domestic violence have been found to have similar brain patterns as soldiers fighting in dangerous combat situations.
After its discovery of 1,094 exoplanet candidates on Monday, the NASA Kepler space telescope is expected to find more alien planets before the end of iots prime mission in November 2012, space officials said.
A newly discovered comet, categorized by astronomers as a “sungrazer,” is moving towards the sun and is expected to graze the sun’s surface in mid-December.
As the old saying goes, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," and with modern times apple juice became the substitute for the actual fruit. Sporting the same vitamins and minerals, apple juice and other fruit juices became a common sight in different families' homes as an alternative to sodas.
There is an “unspoken space race” among Asian countries which may fuel regional tensions and increase risk of space militarization, according to policy experts.
Touchscreens of the Future will be able to Touch Back and Bendable
Natural supplements are often seen as second-class citizens when it comes to medications, so to speak. This is because some of them have no therapeutic claims, and for some reason, people see natural herbs as something foreign compared to the pills they pop in so effortlessly from the pharmacist.
A 26-year-old veterinarian from Sydney was gored to death by a wild elephant while taking photo of the animal in a wildlife reserve in Borneo island, Malaysia on Wednesday.
New research show that risks of developing bipolar affective disorder is increased if a woman experiences a psychiatric episode within the first 30 days after childbirth.
In five years time you could be seeing a woolly mammoth roaming the Earth again. Scientists from Japan and Russia have discovered a well-preserved thigh bone from a woolly mammoth buried in the permafrost in Siberia and they believe they can clone a mammoth from the remains.
Do you want to know what planets are habitable? Search the answer in the Habitable Exoplanet Catalog (HEC) website, the new online catalog of habitable planets.
Robots make for fantastic gifts this holiday season. Even if your giftee is no mad scientist, robots still make for cool and unique gifts. Robots are readily available in many retail stores and websites. Owning robots isn't the just for scientists and the ultra-rich. Here are some affordable robots for Christmas.
The earthquake that hit Japan on March 11 triggered the long-hypothesized "merging tsunami," researchers said, noting that data from NASA and European radar satellites captured at least two wave fronts that doubled the disaster's intensity.
Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is currently in a 299 kilometer orbit and is slowly descending towards the Earth’s atmosphere.
Astronomers have reported that they have found and measured one of the largest black holes found in the universe as of late.
