Sci/Environment

Scientists in Singapore have created an “insect-computer hybrid legged robot” using live beetles. Cyborg beetles are remotely controlled through wires attached to their bodies that stimulate and jerk their wing muscles during flight, directing them […]

Climate scientists have called for an emergency meeting after “unprecedented” data showed the Jet Stream crossing the equator.  The scientists have expressed alarm, saying that the passing of the the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream over […]

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have created a device that can make objects ‘disappear’ by stopping them scattering radio waves. The invisibility cloak is made of a composite material with nano-size particles […]

U.S. officials have urged Congress to approve funding to deal with the ever-increasing threat that the Zika virus poses to the United States.  At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, three U.S. officials warned that the […]

The largest ever 3D map of the 95% of the universe that is dark has been constructed by a team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers. Using the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey program, part of […]

The fossils of a new meat-eating two-legged dinosaur have been discovered in Argentina with small short arms resembling those of a Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex). The new dinosaur named Gualicho shinya evolved independently of T-rex despite […]

The Colli Albani volcano complex near Rome is waking up. The long thought extinct volcano is showing signs of life again and geologists are warning that an eruption could be as destructive as Mt. Vesuvius […]

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted mysterious markings on the surface of Mars that resemble Morse code. The strange carved patterns of dots and dashes have been decoded to see if it contains a Martian […]

A large number of the world’s top scientists have condemned Monsanto herbicide ‘Roundup’ as being carcinogenic to humans, in an historic ruling.  The ruling by the International Agency for Research on Cancer officially classified glyphosate (the […]

Scientists in Sweden have discovered a “vanishing” star that they say may help prove the existence of aliens.  Vanishing stars are ones that ‘disappear’ suddenly from the sky, and scientists haven’t been able to explain […]