Do you have a serious food allergy and want to know if there's any culprits in your cookie? Now there's an app for that. It will take you 20 minutes to get the answer using a new application developed by UCLA researchers for your smartphone.
Sitting atop the second largest uranium reserves in the world, Kazakhstan has not followed in the former Soviet Union's footsteps toward military power. Instead, it is at the forefront of the global movement for a world free of nuclear weapons.
After beating cancer twice as a boy, climbing the world's tallest peaks with one lung required a lot of hope-now he gives it to others as he guides them upward.
This new study from Stockholm University shows that nice guys might not finish last—and greed may not be the path to prosperity, after all.
Barry Boyton, of Yeovil in Somerset, England, has grown a sunflower with 27 heads in his garden this summer.
Utah has slashed chronic homelessness by 91 percent over ten years with a unique program called 'Housing First'.
Douglas Smith has grown a tomato in Hertfordshire weighing 3.106kg, making it the biggest in Britain this summer.
A four-mile-long living memorial of sunflowers planted for his wife will now help other people battling cancer.
As the whole world watched him via live streaming video, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner completed a record-breaking freefall from the edge of space Sunday morning. He reached speeds of more than 600 mph during the 128,000-foot fall to earth.
The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru created a billboard that generates potable water out of thin air.
A new BAS survey using satellite technology reveals there are 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than was previously thought.
Hollywood's biggest stars marked the two-year anniversary of the massive Haiti earthquake last week, gathering on Saturday to raise five million dollars for Sean Penn's Haitian Relief Organization, which was set up to support thousands of displaced people living in a settlement camp there.
After eradicating domestic COVID-19, New Zealand has ended all social distancing and other lockdown measures, with businesses and athletes celebrating.
Michael J. Fox joined hikers to raise $1 million for Parkinson's research on the way to the top of the White Butte.
The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One fungus, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless landfills.
Eben Bayer of Ecovative has just announced a new partnership with Ford to create compostable car parts from mushrooms. Instead of using an enormous amount of energy and oil to make plastic, polystyrene or styrofoam, the New York-based start-up uses agricultural waste to create biodegradable parts and packing materials.
Frito-Lay has long worked on making its manufacturing plants more energy, waste, and water-efficient. Now the snack giant has just opened in Arizona a 75% net-zero energy plant that the company is calling the greenest manufacturing facility in the U.S.
When poor people are given medical insurance, they not only find regular doctors and see doctors more often but they also feel better, are less depressed and are better able to maintain financial stability, according to a new, large-scale study that provides the first rigorously controlled assessment of the impact of Medicaid.
Mexico's ruling party on Sunday chose a former congresswoman, 51 year-old Josefina Vazquez Mota, to run for president, the first time a major party has nominated a woman to compete for the nation's top office.
Poop in, clean water out. Bill Gates has invested more than three million dollars on behalf of the 2.6 billion people around the world who don't have access to modern toilets. Yesterday, the three winners of his "next-generation toilet prize were announced, showcasing innovative designs that capture and process human waste without piped water, sewer or electrical connections. Even more impressive, the toilet prize-winners all transformed human waste into useful resources, such as energy and water.
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