Author: Bijoy Daniel

In a new study, scientists have found a cabbage relative capable of remembering and responding to information

Using Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope program, you can now take an interactive tour of Mars with the highest-resolution images available of…

Highways basking in the hot sun are wasted energy. Scott Brusaw’s solution? Make them out of solar panels

Environmental monitoring has come a long way since the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Now we use bees. Airports…

Physalia is half-boat, half-building, and all green. This mammoth aluminum concept by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut is meant to travel…

It took NASA a few decades, several probes, and a whole lot of money to find hard evidence for the…

Mycobacterium vaccae is a type of bacteria that naturally leaves in soil and has been in the attention of researchers for a while now, due to the fact that it decreases anxiety. Recent studies sugest that in fact, it also stimulates neuron growth and thus intelligence and the ability to learn. Dorothy Matthews and Susan […]

With a budget battle looming and its Ares I rocket program all but dead, today NASA test-fired its $220 million…

Using DNA preserved for 25.000 – 43.000 years in bones from Siberian mammoths, a team of international scientists recreated mammoth hemoglobin and studied it, revealing interesting facts about the fascinating animals. “It has been remarkable to bring a complex protein from an extinct species, such as the mammoth, back to life,” says Professor Alan Cooper, […]

Researchers have successfully tested a technique that uses melanin-coated nanoparticles to protect bone marrow from damage commonly sustained during radiotherapy