Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had help from volcanoes, study says
Scientists have long blamed a single culprit in the sudden and violent mass extinction that took out the dinosaurs ...
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Can NASA’s far-out travel plans bring sustainability to Spaceship Earth?
America’s space agency is going long. Its next generation of explorations will send travelers on journeys beyond the moon, to Mars and maybe beyond.
CITE: The $1 billion city that nobody calls home
In the arid plains of the southern New Mexico desert, between the site of the first atomic bomb test and the U.S.-Mexico border, a new city is rising from the sand.
Probe captures Pluto’s blue hazes
The New Horizons mission has returned its first colour image of Pluto's atmospheric hazes and shows them to have a blue tinge.
Electric SUV, fresh off the printer
A project of the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Laboratory, this 3D-printed concept house can send power its own electric vehicle, and the vehicle can return the favor.
About that doomsday asteroid that was supposed to hit Earth today…
Good news Earthlings, we survived a "potential" asteroid collision.
Yahoo aims to phase out passwords with new service
Yahoo's next step in password security is to eliminate them altogether.
Checking in to Japan’s robot hotel
From robot receptionists to robot porters, everything at Japan's Henn na or "Weird" hotel is handled from check-in to check-out.
Google has 3.8 million GB of our photos
Since debuting in May, Google Photos has gobbled up 3,720 terabytes of pictures and videos -- a staggering stash of personal memories that now live in the cloud.
Surprise discovery suggests ‘gentle’ start for Solar System
The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered molecular oxygen in the cloud of gas surrounding the comet it is tracking.
