Implementing teleworking two, three or four days a week would reduce the levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), the main pollutant in smog by 10%

Humans’ oldest companion, the dog, was first domesticated at least 20,000 years ago. The ancient dogs were an essential part of life.

New technology enables hobbyists to build their own battery-free electronic devices that run with intermittent, harvested energy.

The approximately $4 million spacecraft, a smaller-than-usual type of satellite known as a "CubeSat," is as large as a "box of Cheerios".

Using a raised eyebrow or smile, people with speech or physical disabilities can now operate their Android-powered smartphones hands-free.

A droplet-based protocell could have served as a link between ‘chemistry’ and ‘biology’ during the origins of life.

Exoform is a compact, customizable and semi-rigid wearable material with self-fusing edges for immediate, adjustable and repeatable use.

U.S. companies could benefit from encouraging and developing self-leadership in employees, a concept allowing workers to manage themselves.

Researchers are developing artificial intelligence that could assess climate change tipping points and act as an early warning system.

Researchers have found that learning -- a universal feature of intelligence in living beings -- can be mimicked in synthetic matter.

A smartphone sensor, much like what is used in GPS systems, might be a way to determine whether or not someone is high from canibus.

There's a global race to reduce the amount of harmful gases in our atmosphere to slow down the pace of climate change through carbon capture

There’s no judgment or side-eye here in Thompson-Gaines’s yard. There is just “Thanks” and “Have a nice day” and “Hope you enjoy that.”

It’s basic exercise knowledge that to gain muscles, you strength train, and to lose fat, you do cardio – right? That's actually wrong!

The three-bedroom home has a corduroy-patterned exterior, rounded corners—and a cement poured from an industrial-sized toothpaste tube.

The Woolly Mammoth went extinct 10,000 years ago, but the bioscientists and geneticists think they can bring it back.

While the idea of hovering motor vehicles might once have been considered farfetched, it's certainly not the case today.

The English town of Milton Keynes now has another claim to fame—a trundling army of shopping delivery robots.

Hundreds of animal rights protesters marched in San Francisco to demand the end of factory farming, chanting, “Humane slaughter is a lie!"

The ability to remember relationships between unrelated items (an odor and a location, a song and an event) is known as associative memory

Getting more sleep seems to provide big benefits: Many people find it gives them increased energy, emotional control, and well-being.

A new sensor can distinguish infectious viruses from noninfectious ones thanks to selective DNA fragments and sensitive nanopore technology.

Earth, Venus and the other planets residing in the inner solar systems were likely born from repeated hit-and-run collisions.

Some engineers find inspiration in the mechanics of bird flight and the architecture of bee nests. Others think much smaller.

FY-3E is roughly the size of a pick-up truck and will cover the gap of coverage by existing satellites — approximately 20% of the globe.

Robots are more widely adopted where populations become notably older, filling the gaps in an aging industrial work force.

Cleaning robots have evolved from disc-shaped vacuum cleaners found in homes to advanced models that can navigate complex spaces.

The size of a grain of sand, dispersed microfliers could monitor air pollution, airborne disease and environmental contamination.

To accelerate discoveries for cancer patients, we need new ways to bring together the different types of complex data we generate.

Researchers at Mount Sinai’s Light Health Research Center are developing new devices for delivering patients healthy doses of light.

Eating your daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases.

People often unconsciously synchronize bodily functions like heartbeat and breathing when they share an experience.

The materials swirling around in the Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) powerfully influence the climate we experience on Earth.

Over half a million dollars has been donated to the Capital Regional District animal shelter in honour of a beloved pet.

Researchers have found a way to thwart facial recognition cameras using certain software-generated patterns and natural makeup techniques

On the street outside Peaches Kitchen & Bar, two translucent outdoor dining structures are now standing like oversized glowing lanterns.

For the hundreds of thousands of blind people in France, moving around in an urban environment can be synonymous with falls and stress.

So far, we know of only two interstellar objects (ISO) to visit our solar system. They are 'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov. There should be more.

Engineers have designed a relatively low-cost, energy-efficient approach to treating water contaminated with heavy metals.

The brain chemical oxytocin appears to make people feel full and reduce overeating. Can it encourage weight loss?

Scientists use 3D printer to produce microneedle vaccine patch that dissolves into the skin to boost immunity.

Materials scientists have found a way to prevent internal short-circuits, the main cause of fires in lithium (Li)-ion batteries.

Researchers’ new method enables WiFi signals to count a stationary seated crowd, using their natural body fidgets.

Engineers are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel to address climate change and get astronauts home from Mars.

TWO WOMEN who were accidentally swapped at birth were raised as sisters from the age of three when their parents realised the mistake.

This form of propulsion starts with large solar arrays that convert sunlight into electricity, providing the power source for the spacecraft

We tend to listen to people who tell us things we’d like to believe and ignore people who tell us things we’d prefer not to be true.

Engineers have successfully shown how water and oxygen can be extracted by cooking up lunar soil, in order to support future Moon bases.

Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas.

Is a giant moon set to touch down in Las Vegas? Apparently, so. At 735ft, it would become the second-tallest resort in Las Vegas.