Science

Japanese construction firm Obayashi has galvanized its nation’s scientific and engineering community to complete a working space elevator by 2050 that will reach a newly-built space station 96,000 kilometers from Earth.

The University of Sheffield has released the first photos of space ever taken with a 3D printed telescope. The telescope cost just £100 to make and is comprised of components which are easy to purchase on the internet.

Physicists at the University of Geneva have succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over more than 25 kilometres of optical fibre. The experiment, carried out in the laboratory of Professor Nicolas Gisin, smashes the previous long distance record of 6 kilometres achieved ten years ago by the same team.

Inspired by natural adhesives secreted by shellfish, MIT engineers have created a new stronger waterproof glue that can be used to repair ships and even heal wounds and surgical incisions. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineered bacteria to produce a hybrid material that incorporates naturally sticky mussel proteins as well as a bacterial protein found in biofilms …

Many Portsmouth residents were surprised, even alarmed, to see what appeared to be a flying saucer over the south coast. According to a met official, the object has nothing to do with the weather.

A new study by a University of Wisconsin Madison zoologist has found that declining wind may alter predator-prey relationships. The study has demonstrated the way “global stilling” or declining wind may alter predator-prey relationships.

Thousands plan to march in New York City on the eve of the September 23 Climate Summit. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that he plans to join the enormous public march calling for action on climate change this coming weekend.

Tiny clownfish larvae can swim up to 400 kilometres in search of a hospitable anemone – an epic ability that could help them adapt to environmental change, research has found.

New research suggests short-term decreases in marine animal growth and reproduction could be linked to an increasing variability in the strength of coastal upwelling currents, which work to supply nutrients to a number of crucial ecosystems

According to a report from MIT, researchers are one step closer to engineering an active, streamlined “second-skin” spacesuit.

Hundreds of thousands of bees are dead after what an apparent pair of poison attacks on nearly 180 honey-producing hives near Brandon. The bee deaths reportedly happened sometime between Aug. 14 and Sept. 3 at two separate locations in the RM of Elton, about 10 kilometres and 18 kilometres northwest of Brandon.