Science

The 65th International Astronautical Congress 2014, the world’s premier space event, will take place in Toronto, Canada from September 29 to October 3, 2014 at the award-winning Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Greek researchers from the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), have taken a swimming robot to the ocean waves for the first time. The robot, developed as part of the European Commission funded OCTOPUS program, can swim using an octopus-style sculling motion, and can also move across the ocean floor, albeit slowly.

After a difficult search, scientists have found definitive traces of water on a relatively small exoplanet for the first time. The exoplanet in question, HAT-P-11b, is the size of Neptune and has copious amounts of both water vapor and hydrogen in its atmosphere.

After being left out of NASA contracts to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, Sierra Nevada Corp. said Friday it has filed a protest asking the U.S. Government Accountability Office to review the space agency’s $6.8 billion award to Boeing and SpaceX.

Scientists from the University of Manchester have urged environmentalist scientists to broaden the advice they give on global climate change.

Researchers at the University of Rochester have discovered a way to hide large objects from sight using inexpensive and readily available lenses, a technology that seems to have sprung from the pages of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy series.

Scientists have taken a look at the most comprehensive family tree of meat-eating dinosaurs to date. Now, they’re using this family tree to uncover key details of how birds evolved from these prehistoric terrors, examining feathers, wings and wishbones.

Police in Espanola, New Mexico are catching more than just criminals. They are catching images of what they believe are ghosts on surveillance cameras at the police department.

Half of the water on Earth may be a million years older than the solar system, according to a new study.

A POD of killer whales have been filmed for the first time hunting and killing a TIGER SHARK.

U.S. Geological Survey scientists continue to monitor the Mammoth Lakes area where a swarm of some 500 smaller magnitude quakes have rocked the area around Mammoth Airport. Scientists say the swarm poses no immediate danger.