2018-04-12 Daylight Turns Thin Plastic Barrier into Germ-Killing Material
Daylight-powered germ-killing equipment may someday help protect health workers from deadly microorganisms like Ebola virus disease. That is a finding…
2018-04-11 Researchers: Many Black Holes in Center of Milky Way Galaxy
Astronomers say the center of our galaxy has plenty of strange, super gravity objects. For years, scientists believed that circling…
2018-04-10 Facebook Tells Users Whether Private Data Shared
Facebook says it will begin informing users as to whether their personal data may have been wrongly shared with a…
2018-04-09 US Space Agency Expands Search for Distant Planets Able to Support Life
The search for worlds orbiting distant stars will intensify in the coming weeks when the American space agency NASA launches…
2018-04-08 Robots Not Ready to Take Over
Robby Pepper can answer questions in Italian, English and German. He is Italy’s first robot concierge. He is deployed at…
2018-04-06 Scientists: Bowhead Whales Are ‘Jazz Singers of the Arctic’
Bowhead whales have many unusual qualities. They can live for 200 years. They have the largest mouths of any living…
2018-04-02 Scientists: Early Humans Were Not as Simple as One Would Think
Scientists have discovered evidence that some of the earliest members of the human race, Homo sapiens, were surprisingly advanced. Scientists…
2018-03-29 3D Printer Can Create Complete Home in One Day
An American company says it has completed the first permitted 3D printed home in the United States. The home was…
2018-03-26 Researchers: Glowing Cancer Cells Easier to Find, Remove
The surgery looked like any other operation to remove a tumor. When doctors turned off the lights, however, parts of…
2018-03-22 Can Self-Driving Cars Be Engineered to Be Ethical?
This week, a self-driving vehicle struck and killed a woman in the American state of Arizona. The death is believed…
2018-03-21 Facebook Likes Can Tell a Lot About You
Facebook “likes” can tell a lot about a person. In a 2013 study, researchers showed they could use Facebook “likes”…
2018-03-20 Critics Want Facebook Regulation after Data Misuse
United States lawmakers are calling for more regulation of Facebook. The move comes after reports that the social media company…
2018-03-19 Ancient People in South Africa Unharmed by Volcanic Eruption
About 74,000 years ago, the Mount Toba volcano erupted on what is now the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The eruption…
2018-03-18 Smart Mirrors Show What You Would Look Like Wearing…
Software applications let smart phone users do a lot with their photographs. Apps such as Snapchat already give users the…
2018-03-15 Study: False News Spreads Faster and Farther than Truth
A study has found that false news stories posted on Twitter travel much faster and reach far more people than…