As everyone knows, water is the most important resource in the world. We use water for just about everything, from agriculture to industrial purposes, and of course, for the most obvious purpose: Hydration.

Here’s another interesting thing about the human body – a new study published in Nature found that when nerve cells are under duress, their other cell friends help them out. Scientists say struggling nerve

Out of all of Elon Musk's recent "Master Plan Part Deux," the part that really caught our eye was a short paragraph about a Tesla semi. Much of the rest—solar, autonomous driving, ride-sharing—wasn't

Virgin Galactic is one step closer to making us all space tourists: it just received its operator license from the US Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST).

A scientific expedition into the DNA of more than 450,000 customers of gene-testing company 23andMe has uncovered the first major trove of genetic clues to the cause of depression. The study, the largest

Nowadays, it is crucial to have ultra-portable devices as people instantaneously need to be updated with the latest information available in the vast web. This has strongly contributed to the demand growth

It’s long been understood that early disease detection is the key to successful treatments. But annual checkups with a doctor might not be frequent enough to help. So imagine if you could forego a trip

The Google company Veriliy Life Sciences is teaming up with pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline to develop implants that will fix problems in our organs using electricity. To do this, the firms are setting

If you think about it, the more than 75 million people who have downloaded Pokemon Go are quite literally hand surveying their cities, fanning out and scouring their city labyrinths, traversing even remote

Engineers at the University of Chicago have created a new kind of solar cell that efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide into usable hydrocarbon fuel—and it does so using only sunlight for energy.

An alternative to the Turing Test, the Winograd Schema Challenge aims to determine how well an AI system handles common sense reasoning. The challenge tasks computer programs with answering a specific

Sounds unlikely? It's not - it's actually quite likely. The only way to get people to live for a thousand years or more is to develop advanced technologies that can manipulate our bodies down to the cellular

NASA took another important step Friday in returning U.S. astronaut launches from U.S. soil with the order of a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.

Ever since Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, with the intention of eventually colonizing Mars, every move he has made has been the subject of attention. For the past two years, a great deal of this attention

Technological shifts outpace our awareness of them. While we're busy with our day-to-day lives—getting a new smartphone or downloading the next updates—we often don't notice how these incremental changes