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Bacteria Can Produce Diesel on Demand: Study

Apr 23, 2013 07:34 AM EDT

Bacteria can be Used to Produce Diesel on Demand: Study

A new method has been developed by a team of researchers from University of Exeter that makes bacteria produce diesel on demand. The study was conducted with support from Shell.

Apr 22, 2013 10:06 PM EDT

White House Science Fair: A Glimpse into the Future of America's Innovation Hub [VIDEO]

The third annual White House Science Fair kick-started today.

Apr 22, 2013 08:17 PM EDT

Google Doodle Honors Earth Day 2013, Watch Interactive Doodle

In honor of Earth Day 2013, Google rolled out a new doodle which pictures scenic shots of a mountain and a lake that's home to a school of fish.

Apr 22, 2013 12:59 PM EDT

Would You Make It With a Sexbot? 9 Percent of Americans Say Yes!

A recent poll showed 18 percent of respondents believe that sexbots will be available for our toying pleasure by 2030.

Apr 22, 2013 09:02 AM EDT

Ants Tracked with Unique Barcodes: Researchers Discover Nurses, Foragers and Janitors (Video)

Ants have a complicated social structure. Now, researchers have individually tagged every single worker ant within an entire colony and tracked them with a computer in order to learn more about how they network.

Apr 20, 2013 11:00 PM EDT

Workshop Construction for Largest Components of ITER Fusion Reactor Begins

At the vast construction site of the world's largest experimental fusion reactor ITER in Southern France--which will be one of the largest and most complex machines ever built--another facility will now be built for the on site fabrication of huge components that are too large for transport since th...

Apr 20, 2013 04:53 PM EDT

Private Rocket Antares Ready for Takeoff After Wind Caused Delay

Orbital Science Corporation's Antares Rocket is ready for takeoff after the strong Vancouver wind force it to wait delay its launch time by about an hour.

virtual reality 3-D brain floating in space

Apr 20, 2013 02:16 AM EDT

3D Immersion Technology Now Helps Fighting Migraine (Video)

Full 3D immersion is applied to a growing number of scientific applications, and one of them is now visualizing special brain scans of patients. The 3D brain is a novel way to examine data from images taken during a patient's actual migraine attack, says DaSilva, who heads the Headache and Orofacial...

The new KALQ keyboard (credit: MPI for Informatics)

Apr 19, 2013 05:17 PM EDT

New Computational Optimized Touchscreen Layout Maximizes Typing Speed on Mobile Devices

A new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices has been created by a research team at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the University of St Andrews, and Montana Tech.