Humphreys was the keynote speaker at a conference of world experts organized by the UK – ICT Knowledge Transfer Network in London yesterday. His predictions for what lies ahead with this emerging threat were...
The first known fossil of a rare bloodsucker called the bat fly has been found in 20-million-year-old amber. What’s more, the ancient bug was host to bat malaria, an even rarer find, according to...
This paper aims to focus the attention of the scientific community in general – and of political and science administrators in particular – on the need for a critical analysis of the performance and...
For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed reflections of light from a “supernova impostor”—the so-called Great Eruption of the star system Eta Carinae, which was seen from Earth more than 150 years ago. The...
Gleick — an internationally recognized hydroclimatologist and author of the respected annual report “The World’s Water” — said he received an anonymous document in the mail that tipped him off to what he described...
MOSCOW – It was an Ice Age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team...
With Wikileaks and several other major players throwing their weight behind the project, a vaporware press release has made The Global Square go viral. Ever since a group of activists released the original proposal...
(multimedia) NASA releases images of “plasma indirection” that results in tornado-like action on the sun.
Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva on Friday ruled that controversial research on a mutant form of the virus potentially capable of being spread among humans should be made public. Security assessments must however...
Need energy to charge your phone or Unmanned Aircraft System? Just add water. Horizon Energy Systems has developed a new type of process that produces electricity by mixing water with the chemical, hydride. The...
