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Cree’s version is the first to pass California standards for performance and cost and, hopefully, the average consumer’s standards for appearance.

Researchers have designed a type of laser technique that is able to distinguish the bad — specifically, the proteins responsible for Alzheimer’s and similar diseases — from the good. Simply locating them could make removing them much easier.

Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer, believes that if world leaders experienced what she did, they would come up with very different policies. 

The modern dictator needs only to become a client-state to Russia or China (or to be Russia or China), and there is nothing he can’t get away with. We members of open societies have the power to change that. All we need is the resolve.

UCLA scientists have created an imaging system that can display particles as tiny as 100 nanometers via a smartphone’s camera. Such a system could be useful for detecting certain viruses, such as HIV.

Charlie Harry Francis, owner of UK-based Lick Me I’m Delicious, has created many unusual frozen treats, but this is the first that uses synthesized jellyfish proteins to produce a unique glow. Unfortunately, the stuff’s not cheap.

According to a new study, the number of planets in our galaxy that could potentially support life as we know it could be as high as 40 billion.

We all feel bad for Pluto, but it had its demotion coming. “I have announced this star as a comet, but since it is not accompanied by any nebulosity and, further, […]

So as semiconductor manufacturing has moved offshore, the number of people in this country who actually know how to operate those tools, who have the tacit knowledge has declined as well. 

Does space stretch or does new space get created, and what does that mean for the conservation of energy? “If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch […]

How our best physical understanding of the early stages of the Universe — that set up the hot Big Bang — inevitably leads us to conclude that there’s a lot more than what’s merely […]

Everybody knows how to stay inside their silo.  It takes the courageous soul to cross those boundaries. 

Taking the fireflies-in-a-jar concept to an entirely new level, a team of undergraduates has made it to the finals of a scientific competition with their BioBulb project. The secret ingredient: Genetically-engineered E. coli.

Diabetics may someday be able to test their blood sugar levels using a simple, painless laser device that registers glucose in skin cells.

Oxford University researchers have discovered a protein that prevents genes from adapting to differing levels of light. Suppressing this protein in mice caused their body clocks to adjust much faster.

Positing Jesus Christ as a yogi has become popular over the last two decades. For some, the symbolism is irresistible: loving your neighbors, turning a cheek and other maxims line […]

How the last open cluster ever discovered by Messier himself still holds some amazing secrets and wonder more than 200 years after its discovery. “The journey is difficult, immense. We […]

While the idea of breaking the “cosmic speed limit” is purely theoretical, scientists at NASA argue that a warp-traveling spacecraft is indeed possible.

This week we mark the loss half a century ago of President John F. Kennedy. For that generation, Kennedy’s death was the “where were you” moment. For our generation, the […]

Scientists at Duke University stimulated sensory neurons in a way that eventually allowed six rats to locate light signals that are invisible to the (unmodified) naked eye.

The wonderful time-lapse video below records Perseid meteors above Canada. But it also contains a mystery.

The Sun — like nearly all stars — burns bright through its nuclear reactions, sending light, heat and energy out into the Universe over a timespan of billions of years. But how? “The sun is […]

Due to the popularity of SmallSats, industry and government agencies have come aboard the SmallSat bus. However this attention has shed light on a major obstacle: the challenge of getting those SmallSats to space in a responsive and cost-effective manner.

The teachings of the Buddha dissect existence into fundamental elements. Contrary to René Descartes, this dhamma is not pure bricks and mortar, or pure materialism; it describes the make-up of all reality in a holistic, all-encompassing way.

Newly released top secret documents shed light on the U.S. involvement in Iraq’s use of chemical weapons in the 1980’s.

In this end of year roundup I present the top ten of my posts from the last year, selected by your mouse clicks, along with a “too long, didn’t read” […]

The less we know about something like energy, the more likely we are to use and abuse it in ways with long-reaching, harmful consequences.

As a student, Dutch designer Chintan Shah asked himself why so many streetlights were on unnecessarily. He then set out to devise a more economical and environmentally friendly alternative.

A network of probes that communicate with each other using the power of the stars isn’t within the reach of current technology, but it could be someday, according to a new paper.

We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe.