Coming Soon to a Grocery Store Near You: Lab-Grown Meat, Eggs and Milk

March 24, 2016
Seeing the need to balance the ethics of using animals as a food source and a burgeoning planetary population, researchers have been studying ways to grow animal tissue in the lab, to produce a food source that doesn't rely on... continued

Dwarf Planet Ceres May Be Showing Signs of Daily Geological Activity

March 23, 2016
Some of our smallest astronomical neighbors just keep getting odder and odder: recent observations of the bright spots found on dwarf planet Ceres have shown them to be brightening and dimming over the course of it's 9-hour day. The spots,... continued

Researchers Develop Method of Uploading Information Directly to Your Brain

March 22, 2016
Do you know Kung-Fu? In a reversal to improved methods of reading, recording and interpreting brain patterns, researchers at California's HRL Laboratories have developed a method of transmitting learning patterns directly into the brain. While this technique isn't quite as... continued

Here’s NASA’s Concept For What a Future Starship Might Look Like

March 19, 2016
On September 8, 1966, the first episode in a television series that would come to revolutionize television aired: simply called 'Star Trek', this science-fiction show would change the way stories were told, the way we would view the world, and... continued

Hactivist Group Anonymous Declares War on Donald Trump

March 18, 2016
 The hactivist group Anonymous has released a video calling on it's members to launch cyberattacks on Donald Trump's websites, beginning on April 1. “We need you to shut down his websites, research and expose what he doesn’t want the public... continued

Atlantic Ocean off of the U.S. East Coast Rising 3–4 Times Higher than the Global Average

March 17, 2016
A study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that waters off of the U.S. East Coast may be particularly susceptible to dramatic level increases, due to the effects of global warming. This study used computer models that tracked... continued

Russian Scientists to Test Upgraded ICBMs as Asteroid Killers

March 16, 2016
Earlier this month, Russia's Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau announced it's intention to upgrade intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), to be used against asteroids that could potentially impact the Earth. The proposal comes two years after the high-altitude, 500-kiloton explosion of a... continued

Harsh Winter Storm Hits Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary

March 15, 2016
A harsh winter storm has hit the world's largest butterfly sanctuary in southern Mexico, killing upwards of 1.5 million monarch butterflies, ahead of their annual migration north. The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a designated World Heritage Site, has a comparatively... continued

Possible Debris from Flight 370 Found in Mozambique

March 12, 2016
Civil aviation authorities in Mozambique have announced that an American citizen that has been independently investigating the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have found a part from the missing aircraft. Mozambique’s Civil Aviation Institute president, Joao de... continued

Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard Declared ‘World’s Happiest Man’

March 11, 2016
In 1972, shortly after earning his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Pasteur Institute in France, Matthieu Ricard left his life in academia for the Himalayas, to study Tibetan Buddhism. His studies would eventually lead him to become the French... continued