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Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a nano crystal around 500 times smaller than a human hair that turns darkness into visible light and can be used to create light-weight night-vision glasses.
It is extremely rare for a single experiment to be so impactful and timely that it shapes and forecasts the experiments of the next decade.
September 26 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk twitted: "SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine" Elon Musk revealed more Sept. 27, 2016 at his talk at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Me
This is one of the Nextbigfuture article series reviewing developments in 2016 and looking ahead to developments over the next few years.
SABRE - Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine - is a new class of engine for propelling both high speed aircraft and spacecraft. SABRE engines are unique in delivering the fuel efficiency of a jet engine with the power and high speed ability of a ro
Existing covered areas and domes on Earth are in the 30-40 acre ranges and with costs of $400 million to 1 billion.
A Star Trek-inspired medical device gives us a glimpse of medicine's future
As far as the markets are concerned, OPEC's 32.5-million bpd output cut deal agreed to two weeks ago could go either way, and the uncertainty makes it anyone's guess--but MCW Energy, the pioneer of breakthrough clean oil sands extraction in Utah
As long-term global average temperatures steadily rise, and international efforts to address them steadily fall short, some scientists and engineers are working on increasingly desperate solutions to the symptoms of global climate change.
Few would argue that excess refined sugar is pernicious to our health. However, hardly anyone is aware of the manipulation and deceit initiated and perpetuated by the sugar industry to insulate us from this truth.
Another arms race of sorts is changing the human genome by editing DNA with the new CRISPR technology. Pandora's Box has already been opened and the floodgates unleashed. ? TN Editor
Conspiracy theorists believe that there is a secret city which has frozen over - and it could even be the Lost City of Atlantis
Known as luminescent metal-organic frameworks (LMOFs), the crystals work like small, reusable sensors and traps for heavy-metal toxins that contaminate drinking water supplies. Researchers also said that there are no other MOFs that have the same dua
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Because of the variety of potential applications (including industrial and military), governments have invested billions of dollars in nanotechnology research.
One of the fundamental ways scientists measure the well-being of a nation is tracking the rate at which its citizens die and how long they can be expected to live.
Scientists and historians have worked together to create the first ever image of the Scottish warlord
The company isn't sharing the secret of how it works just yet
The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies up to 3,000 years old have been virtually unwrapped and reconstructed for the first time using cutting-edge scanning technology in a joint British-Australian exhibition.
The psilocybin is believed to cause relief from depression by targeting receptors in the brain and disrupting the Default Mode Network, which is responsible for sense of self and is overactive in depressed people.
(NaturalNews) If you are trying to avoid undergoing the dentist's drill and exposing your body to dangerous cavity fillings, a revolutionary new toothpaste could be the ideal solution. The toothpaste, which is made using components that mimic your
Researchers at the University of Bristol have managed to transform radioactive graphite waste into efficient diamond batteries with a lifespan of over 5,000 years.
This life-saving procedure could be changing us.
China uses CRISPR gene-editing techniques to combat cancer
Thanks to advances in medical science over the past century, humans have never lived longer than we do right now.
If Sammy Jo Wilkinson had a spirit animal, it would be Marty McFly. For the past four years, the 51 year-old California resident has been using stem cell therapy to beat her secondary progressive multiple sclerosis back into remission.
Their approach involves sending electrical signals through the brain from electrodes placed on the scalp and manipulating the electrical currents in a way that negates the need for surgery. The team used a stimulation device to apply two electric cur
A man with advanced prostate cancer is believed to be cured after doctors 'shocked' his tumor to death with huge amounts of testosterone.
It's not often these days that we get to view rapidly advancing technology in a favorable light, but this is one of those rare occasions where high-tech is an incredibly good thing.
This Tentacled Robot Will Perform Microsurgery on Your Eyes
