$350 Billion Lost Due To Climate Change, Desperate Scientists Want To Blot Out The Sun

Oct 25, 2017 06:27 am UTC| Technology Science

Many of those living in the light and are simply trying to get by might not know it, but there is currently a desperate battle being fought for the survival of the human race. Climate change is making many scientists...

New Treatment For Blindness Gets FDA Panel Recommendation, First Of Its Kind

Oct 13, 2017 09:02 am UTC| Science

Providing hope to thousands of people suffering from hereditary blindness, advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration just gave a critical recommendation to a new type of treatment. Using gene therapy, the treatment...

The chemicals in firefighting foam aren't the new asbestos

Oct 10, 2017 08:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

This weeks ABC Four Corners episode investigated contamination at defence force sites and surrounding aquifers with chemicals called perfluoroalkyl acids or PFAAs. Around 18 sites are reported to be affected, with the...

VP Mike Pence Heads NASA’s Revived Moon Council, SpaceX To Do The Heavy Lifting

Oct 08, 2017 02:07 am UTC| Technology Science

After months of hinting that a Lunar mission is in the works, US vice-president Mike Pence announced via The Wall Street Journal op-ed that NASA would be sending humans to the moon. The article was published just before...

Scientists Makes Hydrogen Fuel Production Cheaper With Seawater And New Nanomaterial

Oct 08, 2017 02:07 am UTC| Technology Science

Solar and wind energy might be the renewable resources that are growing in popularity, but hydrogen fuel has proven to be incredibly reliable and powerful as well. Now, a University of Central Florida (UCF) scientist has...

Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize

Oct 05, 2017 03:29 am UTC| Science

Many people will never have heard of cryo-electron microscopy before the announcement that Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson had won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work developing this...

Ikea Now Has Indoor Vertical Farm, Huge Potential For Solar Partnership

Oct 04, 2017 05:19 am UTC| Technology Science

With the worlds climate constantly becoming hotter by the year, industries such as farming are going to experience massive problems such as drought and daylight heat thats too much for plants to handle. Thats why products...