The world’s largest solar power plant is coming to the Mojave Desert .
Mojave Solar Array
The worlds rarest kind of great ape, the Cross River gorilla, is getting a new sanctuary .
This is progress: United States requires fisherman to bring shark catches to shore before definning them . This will go a long way to protecting endangered species.
A naturalist exploring in Manhattan has found the previously-thought extinct Northern Dusky salamander alive and well.
How duct tape saved the Apollo 17 moonbuggy .
Scientists in Finland plan to fly a solar sail around the Earth .
New Mexicans for Science and Reason test everything from magic tricks to lake monsters .
Fighter jet reproduced at 1:5 scale .
The Pentagon is investing $250 million into research to regrow troops skin, muscle, and limbs from stem cells .
Humans may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago.
More than half of scientists at the EPA who responded to a survey, reported political interference in their work .
Women trying to get pregnant who want a boy need to eat more calories . If they want a girl, eat less.
Genetically modified soya crops produce 10 percent less food than unmodified.
NASA has released 59 new images of colliding galaxies . w00t!
When Galaxies Collide
Image courtesy of NASA
World’s first bionic eye successfully installed , involves a camera wired to an artificial retina wired to the optic nerve.
Monitoring brain activity can detect brain farts 30 seconds before they happen . A discovery with applications in preventing accidents in the future.
Image: Growth of Light Pollution in North America , projected to 2025.
The United States ranks just above Turkey in acceptance of Evolution.
Here’s a question without an easy answer how do magnets work?
Wired’s guide to brain drugs , also drink small doses of caffeine all day instead of one big cup at a time.
Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club have started rationing rice .
Carbon Dioxide levels are rising at an accelerated rate according to the NOAA.
A climate engineering idea to inject sulfur into the atmosphere to reduce global warming would damage the ozone layer .
Don’t believe in Global Warming? Here’s 8 different teaching styles to educate you.
Hard drives hold data for just a few decades, now researchers think they have a way to store digital information for 1400 years .
The Vulcan Project maps world CO2 Emissions with some suprising results:
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