Just In Time For Earth Day — A Plastic-Eating Enzyme!
The Earth Day Network may have an unexpected ally in its quest to solve the global plastic pollution crisis: bacteria. More specifically, an enzyme produced by the Ideone...
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Festo's Bionic Flying Fox Bats And Somersaulting Robotic Spiders Are Incredible
Over the years, Germany’s Festo has engineered some incredibly cool and functional bio-inspired robots, including ones that mimic ants, butterflies, flying jellyfish, and...
"Birdman" Takes To The Skies to Help Flocks Safely Migrate
Every year from March to October, Christian Moullec, aka “Birdman,” takes to the skies aboard his two-seater adapted light aircraft, derived from hang-gliders. However, t...
Luxury Space Hotel Promises Guests A Truly Out-Of-This-World Vacation
Looking for a true out-of-this-world vacation? Then you are in luck. On Thursday, April 5, Texas-based start-up Orion Span announced they were taking reservations for Aur...
Can Cold Air Bubbles Prevent Destructive Hurricanes From Forming?
With memories of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, which ravaged Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico in 2017, still fresh in their minds, residents of the US Atlantic and G...
Revolutionary Vision Correcting Eye Drops Could Replace Eyeglasses
Experts predict myopia, or nearsightedness, will reach epidemic proportions by the end of the decade, with over a third of the world’s population requiring glasses or con...
Dutch Supermarket Leads The Way To A Cleaner Planet With A Plastic-Free Aisle
Though the harmful effects of plastic on wildlife and human health are well-documented, the versatile material is hard to avoid. Nearly everything we touch, from grocery...
China's Defunct Space Station Meets A Fiery End Over The South Pacific
Reports of an out-of-control space station hurtling towards Earth may sound like a bad April Fools’ prank. However, this was no joke. At 5:16 pm PDT on April 1 (April 2,...
Philadelphia Zoo Gorilla Walks Upright To Keep His Hands And Food Clean!
While gorillas are perfectly capable of walking on two legs, most take just a step or two before dropping on all fours. However, Louis, a 16-year-old male gorilla at the...
Earth's Youngest Volcanic Island May Provide Interesting Insights Into Mars
When the ashes from a December 2014 eruption of a submarine volcano created a 400-foot (120-meter) island in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga experts predicted it would...
Study Suggests The Human Brain Stops Making New Cells At Age 13
Scientists have always known that a majority of the brain’s neurons, specialized cells responsible for transmitting information throughout the body, are formed at the fet...
This Super-Colony Of Adélie Penguins Has Been Hiding In Plain Sight For Decades
It might sound like 1.5 million penguins are a hard thing to miss. However, that is indeed the case with this super-colony of Adélie penguins ( Pygoscelis Adeliae ) who h...
Adorable Blue-Eyed Robot Teaches Infants To Communicate
Experts believe that the optimal time to teach kids language skills is when they are infants. Most times the task is easily accomplished with parents reading or talking t...
Bespectacled Praying Mantises Surprise Researchers With A New Form Of 3D Vision
Stereo, or 3D, vision is what enables humans to gauge the depth and distance of surrounding objects. The right and left eye capture slightly different images and send the...
Groundbreaking Discovery Of Exoplanets Beyond The Milky Way
With over 3,500 exoplanets confirmed as of January 2018 and more being observed on a regular basis, the discoveries have become almost routine. However, all the planets f...
These Fascinating Orange Dwarf Crocodiles May Be Evolving Into A New Species
Though animals are continually evolving to adapt to their environment, it is hard to observe the process real time in the wild. Now, some international scientists have st...
14-Year-Old Orca Whale Learns To Say "Hello" And A Lot More!
A 14-year-old with a vocabulary comprising four or five rudimentary words may not sound impressive. However, it sure is when the speaker happens to be an orca, or killer,...
PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics Open With Intel's Spectacular Shooting Star Drones
If you were among the millions of people that watched NBC’s replay of the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea on Friday, February 9,...
Distant Sun-Like Star May Be Devouring Its Own Planets
RZ Piscium, a star located 550 light years away in the constellation Pisces, has long intrigued researchers with its strange “winking” behavior. During the erratic episod...
Study Reveals Alligators Will Do Anything For A Tasty Morsel — Even Venture Into Salty Waters!
The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) is known to be a crafty and fierce predator that devours anything it can snare. However, given that the reptile lacks...
Stargazers Eagerly Await "Super Blue Blood Moon" On January 31
On January 31, millions of stargazers around the globe will witness what promises to be a spectacular total lunar eclipse. While the celestial event is always special, wh...
MIT Researcher Wants To Light Up The World With Glowing Plants
If Michael Strano has his way, homes and streets of the future will be lit up with “green” energy — literally — from glowing plants and trees. While that may sound like a...
Spacesuits Of The Future May Feature "Take Me Home" Buttons To Bring Back Astray Astronauts
Science fiction thrillers frequently feature accidents that cause astronauts to float away into space. Though this has yet to happen in the real world, it is a risk every...
Newly Discovered Largest Prime Number Could Fill Up 9,000 Pages!
On January 4, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a group of volunteers who use freely available software to search for Mersenne prime numbers, announced th...