Is protest pointless or productive? Credit: EPA By Olaf Corry, The Open University It is set to be one of the largest ever coordinated protests. The People’s Climate March is due to take place in…

America is one giant leap closer to get back as a big-time spacefaring player. NASA's decision on Tuseday, announcing the winners of Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts gave…

Landslides on Mars typically have runout distances much larger than equivalent features on Earth, and therefore can interact with older landforms that are distal to the failure scarp. Regardless of…

An international research consortium has found that longer telomeres increase the risk of melanoma. Telomeres are a part of the genome that function like the plastic caps of your shoelaces, which…

Lord Toast. Credit: Catarina Mota, CC BY-NC-SA By Akshat Rathi, The Conversation and Flora Lisica, The Conversation The 24th Ig Nobel prizes were announced on September 18th. The prizes annually…

Researchers have equipped a robot with a novel tactile sensor that lets it grasp a USB cable draped freely over a hook and insert it into a USB port. Its processing algorithm is faster, so it…

Could novels help us fight climate change? Credit: Asian Development Bank/flickr By Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon A frail risk analyst rediscovers his inner frontiersman in a devastating…

For future astronauts, the process of suiting up may go something like this: Instead of climbing into a conventional, bulky, gas-pressurized suit, an astronaut may don a lightweight, stretchy garment…

A new review of literature suggests that while domestic violence rates are higher for homosexual couples, they aren't as high as previous studies have found, and the authors of the paper say the…

Mobile phones are in the hands of 80 percent of Americans so manufacturers are scrambling to find new ways to keep people buying the next model. Being able to use gestures in the space around the…