Massive 82-Foot Telescope has The Ability To Explore Dark Holes

An 82-foot Magellan telescope has passed all the tests and been approved for construction in hope that it will be operational by 2020. Features: Utilizes a light-collecting mirror surface more than six times the area…

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California’s Recent Rain Still Not Putting a Dent In Their Drought

Heavy rain hit California this past weekend and continues to fall in some areas of the state. Unfortunately, even with more than an inch falling overnight in Southern California on Friday, the U.S. Drought Monitor…

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Iceland’s Cool Trick? Saving Europe with Its Red Hot Liquid Magma.

The thinly populated European island nation of Iceland could become the powerhouse of Europe with its abundant geothermal energy supplies. The change is largely because of a push by the EU to reduce the dependence…

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Jumping Frogs! The Next Big Leap For Robotics

Scientists have found that frogs shorten their muscles a split second before leaping, resulting in stretching the tendon connecting the muscle to the bone. Due to the large amount of energy produced during the jumping…

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Incredible Video of Tsunami Bombs and Underwater Nuclear Tests

29,000 Hiroshima Size Weapons Have Been Tested in the Earth’s Atmosphere We have recently been reminded of the terrible destructive power of tsunamis as seen in Japan and the Philippines. So is it any wonder…

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Team Works on Lithium-Ion Battery That Won’t Blow Up Your Stuff

Lithium-ion batteries are used to power more devices than you could care to keep count of and largely they’ve been very efficient, save for some malfunctions such as the Tesla car fire or with something…

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Are Bees the Answer to Our Plastic Waste Problems?

How do we cut the plastic waste that’s piling up all over the world? Bees may have the answer. Researchers from York University and the University of Guelph in Canada have found that some urban…

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European Commission Slaps the UK with an Air Pollution Lawsuit

The European Commission has decided to take legal action against the UK for its failures to combat air pollution with the possibility of more countries being taken to court too. The case is particularly concentrating…

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We All Lose When Global Manufacturing Leadership Fails

Global manufacturing, the practice of companies opening manufacturing facilities in another country, usually a lower cost country, has benefited consumers by increasing their purchasing capability and stockholders by raising or maintaining profits. But what happens…

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Google and WWF Fund Drones to End Poaching

Government bodies in Namibia have partnered with Google and the WWF to launch a new kind of drone to police the wilds and track down elephant and rhino poachers. With a couple of field tests…

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