'Science & Tech'

China Flies New Stealth Fighter as Problems Plague U.S. Jets

China Flies New Stealth Fighter as Problems Plague U.S. Jets

David Axe Wired The second copy of China’s stealth fighter prototype has just flown at a research facility in the city of Chengdu. The first flight of the J-20 Mighty Dragon with the nose number 2002 [...]

Is the Earth a Sentient Living Organism? New Study May Provide the Proof

Is the Earth a Sentient Living Organism? New Study May Provide the Proof

DailyGalaxy Is the Earth a giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of Maryland may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulfur could allow [...]

S. Korea set to launch multipurpose satellite

S. Korea set to launch multipurpose satellite

ANI South Korea is set to launch a multipurpose satellite to carry out earth observation from a space center in Japan early Friday, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said in [...]

Kepler Sheds Light on the Secrets of Superflares

Kepler Sheds Light on the Secrets of Superflares

Cassie Ryan The Epoch Times Data from NASA’s Kepler mission has been used by Japanese astronomers to investigate superflares—gigantic explosions that occur on sun-like stars—in a new study published in Nature on May 16. Superflares are [...]

A New Count of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

A New Count of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

NASAscience Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system’s population of potentially hazardous asteroids. Also known as “PHAs,” these asteroids have orbits that come within [...]

US researchers harness viruses to power tiny device

US researchers harness viruses to power tiny device

PressTV A team of US researchers in California have used viruses to build tiny devices that gather energy from mechanical forces and convert it into electricity. “More research is needed, but our work is a promising [...]

Rare Annular Eclipse to Cross Pacific on May 20

Rare Annular Eclipse to Cross Pacific on May 20

Sally Appert The Epoch Times Skies in the western United States, China, and Japan will be graced by a rare and beautiful celestial phenomenon this weekend: an annular solar eclipse. On the evening of Sunday, May [...]

Do We Need to Protect Grid From Sunstorms?

Do We Need to Protect Grid From Sunstorms?

Rob Quinn Newser The peak in the 11-year cycle of solar flares happens next year, but electricity regulators have made little progress in deciding how much protection the power grid needs, the Wall Street Journal finds. [...]

Worms may hold key to developing new synthetic blood substitutes

Worms may hold key to developing new synthetic blood substitutes

ANI Worms’ powerful oxygen-carrying abilities may be used in developing a new generation of synthetic blood substitutes for people, scientists say. The haemoglobin found in earth and sea worms carries about 50 times more oxygen than [...]

The outer limits: Nasa probe sees the ‘edge’ of our solar system for first time

The outer limits: Nasa probe sees the ‘edge’ of our solar system for first time

Rob Waugh MailOnline The outer limits: Nasa probe sees the ‘edge’ of our solar system for first time – and it’s completely different from what we thought Nasa’s probes have seen the ‘edge’ of our solar [...]

World’s largest low concentrating PV solar power plant online in Italy

World’s largest low concentrating PV solar power plant online in Italy

Adonai TheWatchers Renewable energy company Convert Italia and solar module manufacturer Solaria Corporation announced last week that the largest low-concentrating solar PV power plant in the world is now online in Puglia, Italy. Owned and operated by Convert [...]

Liquid shot to heart could save dying soldiers in remote areas

Liquid shot to heart could save dying soldiers in remote areas

ANI An injection that stabilises the heart following massive blood loss could save wounded soldiers or injured civilians in remote locations, says an Australian scientist. The fluid is being developed and tested by Queensland scientist Professor [...]