[ad_1] By Mark Hanrahan | LONDON LONDON Alcohol and automobiles famously do not mix – but one Scottish scientist has disproved that maxim by driving a car powered by biofuel derived from making whisky. Edinburgh-based…

[ad_1] LONDON Move over blow-up dolls, the sex robots are here. Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into the global sex market, bringing with it a revolution in robotic “sextech” designed to offer sexual…

[ad_1] MOUNT ETNA, Italy A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science fiction film. But it is not in outer space, it’s on…

[ad_1] BEIJING China’s launch of a new heavy-lift rocket, the Long March-5 Y2, carrying what the government said was its heaviest ever satellite, failed on Sunday, official news agency Xinhua said. The same rocket type…

[ad_1] By Steve Gorman | LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES Drifting throngs of jelly-like, glowing organisms native to tropical seas far from shore have invaded Pacific coastal waters from Southern California to the Gulf of Alaska…

[ad_1] By Vipin Das M | NEW DELHI NEW DELHI India fired a rocket carrying 31 small satellites into space on Friday, several of them for European countries, in a boost to Prime Minister Narendra…

[ad_1] ILLIMANI MOUNTAIN, Bolivia A team of international scientists are transporting samples of ice from a melting glacier in Bolivia to Antarctica, for study and preservation before the glacier disappears. The international “Ice Memory” expedition…

[ad_1] By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The first total solar eclipse across the continental United States in a century is expected to spark watching parties and traffic jams as it…

[ad_1] By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Astronomers on Monday added 219 candidates to the growing list of planets beyond the solar system, 10 of which may be about the same…

[ad_1] By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A Russian cosmonaut and a French astronaut returned to Earth on Friday aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after six months at the International Space…

[ad_1] (The June 1 story corrects distance in 3rd paragraph to 140 million from 1.4 billion) By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A U.S. spacecraft set to launch next year will make a series of…

[ad_1] Scientists have for a third time detected ripples in space from black holes that crashed together billions of light years from Earth, a discovery that confirms a new technique for observing cataclysmic events in…

[ad_1] TOKYO Japan launched a rocket carrying a satellite with a local version of the U.S. global positioning system (GPS) on Thursday, which is expected to increase the precision of location information used in smartphones…

[ad_1] FRANKFURT British companies may need to set up subsidiaries in continental Europe to take part in multibillion-euro space programs funded by the European Union after Britain leaves the EU, the head of Europe’s space…

[ad_1] By Will Dunham | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON DNA from mummies found at a site once known for its cult to the Egyptian god of the afterlife is unwrapping intriguing insight into the people of ancient…

[ad_1] ATACAMA DESERT, Chile Construction began in Chile on Friday on the European Extremely Large Telescope, which when completed will be the world’s largest optical telescope, some five times larger than the top observing instruments…

[ad_1] By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Jupiter’s atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system’s largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing…

[ad_1] By Charlotte Greenfield | WELLINGTON WELLINGTON Rocket Lab, a Silicon Valley-funded space launch company, on Thursday launched the maiden flight of its battery-powered, 3-D printed rocket from New Zealand’s remote Mahia Peninsula. “Made it…