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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

Researchers Train Monkeys to Control Motorized Wheelchairs Using Only Their Thoughts

March 10, 2016
Researchers at Duke University have developed a new brain-machine interface that allows a pair of monkeys to control motorized wheelchairs with only their thoughts. This development is intended to provide an alternative method of controlling the mobility devices for physically... continued

A Biotech Company is using Human Neurons to Build Powerful Computers

March 9, 2016
The computer industry has been facing an existential problem for a number of years now: because of the physical and quantum limitations of silicon dioxide, the speed of a silicon-based computer processor can only pushed so far before it melts.... continued

Ocean Levels Rose Faster in the 20th Century than in the Previous 2,800 Years

March 8, 2016
A new study has highlighted an acceleration in the rise of global sea levels over the past 3 millennia, showing a dramatic increase in those levels over the 20th century. This new study, conducted at Rutgers University, charted sea level... continued

A Laser-Powered Sail Could Cut a Trip to Mars down to Three Days

March 5, 2016
One of the major roadblocks our culture has in regards to space travel is that in order to travel at speeds that could make a trip to a distant planet or star in a reasonable time frame is the application... continued

Indonesia’s Flores Man Isn’t Human, According to a New Study

March 4, 2016
A recent study of the bone structure in the fossilized skulls of Flores Man has confirmed that the hominid, nicknamed "Hobbits" due to their diminutive 3'6" stature, are not an ancestor of modern humans, but quite probably a cousin of... continued

January 2016 Breaks Even More Record Temperatures

March 3, 2016
The warming trend continues: both NASA and NOAA report that the month of January 2016 was one for the record books yet again. Hot on the heels of the hottest year on record, January broke yet another record for global... continued

Researchers Pack 360 Terabytes of Data into a 1-Inch Glass Disk — to Last 13.8 Billion Years

March 2, 2016
One of the big drawbacks of data recorded by our culture is that it's longevity relies on the robustness of the medium that it is encoded on: paper rots, magnetic sectors on hard drives fade, and the plastic and aluminum... continued