In this video: Alarm bells toll for civilization as Brazil's biggest city runs out of water due to deforestation linked to drought. Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, is experiencing its worst dr...

"Greetings. We are from the future. Everything is going to be alright. Humanity is about to undergo an astonishing revolution. Many have called for this revolution, but few understand what it t...

Science behind the photosynthesis bit: "Energy transfer in light-harvesting macromolecules is assisted by specific vibrational motions of the chromophores," said Alexandra Olaya-Castro (UCL Physic...

The São Paulo water crisis, or “hydric collapse," has left this city of 20 million teetering on the brink. The sudden nature of the crisis has left people struggling to cope with the reality of the...

The world’s first grid-connected wave power station has been activated off the coast of Western Australia (WA). After more than a decade of testing and demonstrations, Australian company Carne...

The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument of the Curiosity robot has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the concentration of methane in Mars' atmosp...

Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as small as life can get. The research was led by scientists from the U.S. Depart...

The world's first attempt to transplant a human head will be launched this year at a surgical conference in the US. The move is a call to arms to get interested parties together to work towards the...

This is an invention that might change civilization as we know it: A compact fusion reactor developed by Skunk Works, the stealth experimental technology division of Lockheed Martin. It's the size ...

It sounds like something out of a dystopian science fiction novel, but forensic scientists could soon be producing accurate reconstructions of criminals' faces using only the DNA they leave behind....

A surgeon says full-body transplants could become a reality in just two years. Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body an...

It’s a dream of many to visit the great wide vacuum that is outer space—but getting there can be pretty intense. You know, like the part where you have to strap yourself into a 60-ton rocket accele...

22 years ago, Heidemarie Schwermer left her difficult marriage and relocated to the city of Dortmund (in Germany’s Ruhr area) with her two kids. A middle-aged secondary school teacher, she quickly ...

Chartier-Corbasson and VS-A just unveiled plans for a towering skyscraper made entirely from its residents' garbage! The Organic London Skyscraper is designed to be clad in durable panels made of d...