Sci/Environment

Creating a human out of chemicals in a laboratory may sound like something from a horror movie, but it is  an idea that some scientists are exploring, quietly behind closed doors. Earlier this week, approximately […]

An oil spill from Royal Dutch Shell’s offshore Brutus platform released 2,100 barrels of crude off Louisiana’s coast in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. All  drilling activities at Shell’s Brutus platform have been suspended. According […]

Nestlé has secured the rights to the groundwater under the town of Fryeburg in Maine for up to 45 years, thanks to the efforts of the state’s Tea Party Republican Governor Paul LePage. LePage helped […]

An Indian couple in their seventies are celebrating the arrival of their first child, a baby boy who was born last month. The mother underwent IVF treatment that resulted in their first successful pregnancy after […]

Archaeologists have discovered a fragment the world’s oldest axe in West Australia’s Kimberley region. The stone axe dates back to 47,000bc, is indigenous to northern Australia and shows that our tools used by our prehistoric […]

NASA researchers have detected atomic oxygen in Mars’ upper atmosphere for the first time in forty years. NASA’s airborne observatory SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) has detected single molecules of oxygen in the Martian […]

A 15 year old boy from Quebec has made a correlation between the stars in the sky and the position of the Mayan cities. By making that correlation, he managed to discover a lost Mayan […]

Scientists at the US Department of Energy have discovered that water is able to exist in six different physical locations at the same time.  The researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory published their findings […]

NASA’s MESSENGER has revealed a Topographic map of Mercury after the spacecraft ran out of fuel and slammed into the planet’s surface last year, bringing an extraordinary eleven year mission to a successful end. The […]

Researchers in China have discovered the world’s longest insect. A two-foot-long stick insect was found wriggling on a mountain road in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2014 , according to state media. Xinhua reports: […]