Author: Pauline Edwards

Wildlife researchers from Sri Lanka have reported photographing one of the world’s most reclusive animals, the Horton Plains slender loris, an animal thought to be extinct for more than 60 years (1939 to 2002). Slender loris populations are native to the rainforests of Sri Lanka and southern India have been in decline for decades, but […]

Mice have been used for research in nearly every field, be it medicine, psychology or genetics. In one recent finding regarding genetics study on mice published in the BMC Genetics journal, scientists have managed to turn mice gay by simply altering their genome structure. How so? Well, it seems a group of scientists from Korea’s […]

A self-filtering water bottle, a solar-powered iPod speaker, and more great ideas in gear

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With huge quantities of rare-earth elements valuable to high-tech industries like lithium-ion battery production, will Afghanistan become the “Saudi Arabia” of the future?

While America seems to have delayed it’s Moon base ambitions, Japan seems to have no such plans; according to their own statements, they have absolutely no intention of letting perfectly good lunar lands go to waste. An ambitious plan of (just?) $2.2 billion investments is in the works at JAXA (Japan’s space agency), with the […]

Breathalyzers aren’t just for barflies anymore. Researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have created a novel breath meter that can test…

The European Extremely Large Telescope — the European Southern Observatory’s successor to its Very Large Telescope, which will be the…

The RaceAbout is slated to compete for the $10 million Progressive Automotive X-Prize starting in April